Re: cheap(er) Trice models

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About time too. Undercutting the Catrike but 8lbs heavier. Now there
are more choices. I was deliberating over:
Custom Audax (+S&S)
Bike Friday Pocket Rocket
Challenge Taifun
Recumbent Trike
Only one allowed and an ambition to complete the next PBP on my 40th
birthday.

If the aim is to complete PBP then the trike might be the best call.
It'll be relatively efficient and most importantly, stable, so when you
fall asleep while riding you don't fall over and hurt yourself.

Jon (Who hopes to be there as well, but has a fair bit of training to do
first!)

Jon Senior said:

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the following...

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About time too. Undercutting the Catrike but 8lbs heavier. Now there
are more choices. I was deliberating over:
Custom Audax (+S&S)
Bike Friday Pocket Rocket
Challenge Taifun
Recumbent Trike
Only one allowed and an ambition to complete the next PBP on my 40th
birthday.

If the aim is to complete PBP then the trike might be the best call.
It'll be relatively efficient and most importantly, stable, so when you
fall asleep while riding you don't fall over and hurt yourself.

I'd agree if the PBP were the *only* consideration.

But being the owner of three of the choices - Custom Audax, Pocket
Rocket and a Trice, I'd go for the BF Pocket Rocket as the best overall.
OK, its not quite as much fun as the trike but is more zippy than the
audax, and is more practical than both.
It can carry full camping gear front and rear panniers (if one must) and
hold its own in bunched training sessions at Hillingdon race circuit -
well, at least in the youth categories ;-) It is also nice and easy to
transport by train, taking just a few minutes to bag up.
It's a racing bike you can tour with as well as having that little 'extra'.

I find it hard to think of any downsides on it in comparison with the others.

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Jon (Who hopes to be there as well, but has a fair bit of training to do
first!)

John B
(who trained for it many many moons ago but ....)