Poll question.

[adventurer]

Trikerjim,

That's the best answer I've heard for how much did it cost. I've got to remember that one.

[Boscoporp]

The number of people that come up to me and say something like "nice Rig" amazes me! I have many people every week take pictures of it because of the trailer. Some people say "Can you drive the car?" It has been like being some sort of celebrity! When I buy gas everyone on the lot comes over to look. We was driving from Savannah last month and at least a dozen cars pull up along side and give you the thumbs up!

[caveman50]

Normally the questions i hear are, Is that a buick engine, how fast will it go, are the rockets real, how fast will it go, where are the handlebars, did you build it

[93TrikeWinger]

The common statement I get.... with a smile on thier face is: "Nice (or beautiful) bike, Man....very nice"! Never had a negative comment muttered, at least to my face, but I do know some who think they are a joke. Manly crap about only 2 wheels or four... nuthin' in-between. But you know what!?!?!.... I don't shive a git!

[Scalp Hunter]

The only negative responses I've ever gotten were from my former 2 wheeled riding 'buddies', who can't come to grips with the fact that I went this way. Comments like "It's a car", or else "I'd quit ridding if I had to go that way". But you know what, they never venture more than 100 miles from home, and can't understand why in the world, or how we would travel 5000 or more miles alone without a support vehicle and crew going along. I just smile and tell them about my next planned adventure and watch the looks of disbelief on their face. Bottom line is they want to, but are too cheap to get up off the bucks, and it's not because they can't afford it.

[oldman]

After 10 years 5 different bike and a 100k on a Voyager kits the most ask queiston is about the training wheel and i tell them when i learn to ride i will take them off

[ben721364]

While 1F/2R trikes do draw lots of [positive] comments, they are virtually invisible when compared to the 2F/1R Grinnall Scorpion 111. I have owned and ridden/driven both types.

[Lucky]

My story is similar to SCALP HUNTERS. One of my best riding buddies even told another one he no longer wanted to ride with me if I was going to ride a trike. Oh well it is what it is. I wanted one the fisrt time I saw one and have never regreted triking my Goldwing.A week after I got it back my first trip was 2200 miles.Don't worry bout what they think just wave as you go by and callem when ya get back.RIDE SAFE

[deanone98]

As a Stallion owner, I get the following questions:
Is it a car or a bike
How much does it cost, I usually say as much as a good car
You mean it has a/c & heat
Is it a production model
What type of engine do you have

[Cybyrd1]

In response to "How much did it cost?": I went to the dealer and bought two $15,000.00 T-shirts, and they threw in a free trike!

[rhino 2]

With my first Trike i never really got any negative comments. But i did get a few left handed ones, Like [With a smug on the guys face] nice Trike i think I'll get one for my wife/girlfriend. I just said in return, You should the last time i took her out for a ride she loved it. But with the Tri i get a lot of nice bike and a thumbs up.

[jhennan]

Mine will be done over the winter 2000 venture. But the cool part is a couple we have known for 48yrs kept asking me questions about the trike thing. He had a 450 honda 27yrs ago. So I took them to a shop mthat had 5 of them sitting there. Bam! they bought one that daqy and I can't get them off it now. Theyn ride it every day to work at night on weekends. They bought it 2 months ago and have put over 2000 miles on it. They nsay it has changed there lifestyle. And beleive me it has. We've taken them on rides to the wis. valleys and hills and river rides they never dreamed this could happen to them. I'm so happy for them. There in there 60's.

[bhall]

Hey Jim, who you talkin' about. Would that be us. We can't wait till your trike is done, it's getting down to less than 2 weeks now. I think you might be ready for it by then. Looking forward to that first time out with the new trike. Remember, don't put your feet down, we'll all be watching. Love you guys!!!!

[TNTriker]

I for one have never had anyone say anything derogatory. On the contrary, I get tons of admiring comments about it, tons of questions about the handling and ride, and a fair share of questions about the price. I handle that by telling them the MSRP price (all public information) on the Fat Boy and the Champion kit. And then I tell them that anything personalized beyond that is up to the owner and trike builder and obviously changes the individual price. I've never had anyone who wasn't satisfied w/ that answer.

My comments are about the same as Nana's, but when someone ask me what it cost, I tell them MSRP and then I say "after that, the sky is the limit". It's always been a positive with my trike. Hundreds of from others when riding.

[Memnoch451]

What comments do you get Neg. or positive ones about the trike ?

The funniest one I ever heard was from a pal from high school... " I didn't know you owned a Rascal"

For the most part.. people are very interested and love trikes.. I don't really hang out with the 1 percent diamond back guys but a friend of mine who is a dyed in the wool biker dude in New Mexico thought the trike was " Pretty Neat man" .

[Rosy]

I really don't mind the questions that everyone ask, about cost, did you have it built, how does it ride, and other things. But, the really nice thing about owning a trike is when a Vet comes up to you and ask about riding a trike and I tell him I know of people who ride trikes with no legs and they just smile and ask me about where to see about one and I tell them about my local shop to see if they would like to ride one, to see if it is what they would like.
I feel great to give the Vets a chance to be "Free" again riding a bike/trike, when at times they didn't think they could.

Regards,
Rosy
From NH

[lvgirlflyer]

Q - "Cool Bike, no wait... What IS that?" A- It's a Motorcycle
Q - "How do you back up?" A - "Same way you do. With my legs"
Q - "Is it a Harley?" A- No. It's a Suzuki
Q - "How fast can you go?" A- " As fast as I need to."
Q - "It's a Distinctive Ladie's Ride. A- Thank you!
Q - "Why don't you ride a REAL motorcycle?" A- "Last time I looked, the Suzuki IS a Real motorcycle."

Honestly, about 98% of the comments I've gotten are very positive. Mainly because of my age, my disabilities, and the fact that I love to ride earns me alot of kind words from other riders.


LVGirlFlyer (Leslie in Las Vegas, NV

[Jax]

I have been asked if it is a custom and one guy said it was the first Harley Pick-up he had ever seen. Love my skuter. I get thumbs up, even from cars.

[M.A.T.]

So now that I am a year and a half old Triker and have had a chance to hear my fair share of comments, from fellow riders on two wheels, and non-riders as well. Some not so positive. I think though overall, the positive outweigh the negative by a lanslide.

The best though are the comments I hear from people in the 65+ range, and almost always non-riders. A most curious bunch they are.

The most comments all at once was last year at bike week in Ocean City Md, while I was waiting for the wife to come out of a Roses (similar to a Kmart), but older, and more run down (funny how it's hard to find a bath mat in a resort town with more hotel rooms than people). I must have had 10 or 15 couples stop buy on their way in/out. You know, the kind that dress in matching outfits.

And the funniest/coolest was from one of those. An old world Italian couple. They might have been tourists from Italy.

He went on forever asking every question imaginable, praising how intelligent the whole concept was and how wonderful a machine it was, and she just politely waited. And as they were leaving, in a very heavy Don Corleone accent and with an added hand gesture he asked one last question. "Does it helpa you out ina da bed-a-room?" I laughed out loud as his obviously embarrassed wife dragged him off after that. Out of respect for her I could only nod as he looked back over his shoulder for an answer.

Recently though was the cutest. And certainly a Kodak moment.

I was on my way to donate blood at the dealership near my house not long ago, and I'm sitting at the light waiting to turn north onto US Rt 1. I got my Steppenwolf on the cd player kinda loud as usual, and I hear a shrill sound beside me. I look over to my right and there is this tiny, rather elderly woman old enough to be my grandmother (and I'm 50). You know, the country kind, church hat an all, real straight laced. She's hangin' half out the window of some just as old desoto or something, and she's more excited than a diabetic with a thing of cotton candy in each hand, waving and talkin' to me a little frantically. But smiling at the same time.

Naturally I turn the radio down so I can hear her, ready to give her directions. In like 1.5 seconds, she asks "is it easy to ride?" "how much is it?" "is it expensive?" "where did you get it?", and a couple more questions that I couldn't even keep up with. She barely gives me time to answer one before she asks another. I was chuckling by now looking around for the candid cameras. Unfortunately, before I could completely oblige the light turned green and cars were starting to move and she got all nervous. But as she pulled off waving like we were old friends she took time to tell me "That's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen!" "I need to get me one of them!".

So of all the comments I have heard so far, "that's the most beautiful thing I have ever seen!" by a 80ish year old woman has got to be the best.

Rob

[adaptolife]

I get a lot of guys that follow me for miles just to ask questions after seeing my trike banking the turns. Often I find someone waiting by my bike outside of a store, wondering why a trike was using a kickstand. What is it, how's it work, what's it cost. None have disagreed that it is a badassed ride!