New Bolt-on Voyager triker in North Carolina

[bokobob]

hello..Bob here from North Carolina...last week I wiped out (fortunately on grass with very soft and wet earth underneath) and did not harm the bike once I cleaned it up, and have a bruised rib or two and embarrassed for taking a curve too fast...This prompted me to buy a trike which I am picking up Monday about a hundred miles from me..it is a 2007 Yamaha Vstar 650 Silverado equipped with a voyager kit with big wheels and the bike has just 2800 miles on it...like new....I am a 1936 model and if I make it I'll turn 80 in 2016. I won't be doing any travelling with this trike. I am sad to say my wife of 58 years is in the rest home from a stroke and I go to see her daily, sometimes up to three times (mealtimes)...I have ladies come in and visit with her four night a week so I can some time off..I have been doing this since 2007. She had a terrible stroke in 2005 and I kept her at home for two years and then had a heart attack...she cannot speak or move her right side....she is very alert though.

I presently have four bikes counting the trike...two of the others are Honda cruisers and one is a 98 Kawa voyager XII....that's the one I wiped out on...probably will sell one of the Hondas if for no other reason than making room in the garage....My fave bike of all time is my 94 Honda Magna 750 with a V4 engine and 87 horsepower...it is smooth as glass and has an amazing power band...

Anyway, I tried out a low mileage BMW 1200KT true trike but did not feel I could justify paying north of $20K for it, seeing as how I don't have time to do serious travelling....It was like new.. still on Charlotte nc craigslist.
Sincerely,
Bob

[Ohio Eddie]

Welcome to Trike Talk, from S/W Ohio.

[bokobob]

Thank you, Eddie...So nice of you to welcome me...I see you are from Ohio...Since retiring, we have emigrated to NC from Oregon, Ohio, our hometown near Toledo. I'll look up Oregonia, Oh on the map to see just where it is...heard of it but not quite sure just where it is..

Regards, Bob

[Ed Hobgood]

Welcome to Trike Talk from Missouri.

[cherrybucket]

hope your trike is what you want, by the way we are in Cherryville .

[Rick Kay]

Welcome from the Great Lake State!

[bustedwing]

Hello Bob and welcome to the website from the U.P. of Michigan. To most people I would disagree with a small horse power trike kit but in your case I agree. I am sorry life has delt your wife such a bad hand, but she sure has an ace in the hole with you as her support. I wish I could help you some way, but I think you will work it out. Good luck my friend, ride safe.

[bokobob]

Thanks for your empathy concerning my wife....nice of you to understand I don't need a full blown wing or triglide..

Ok, now for this news..I cancelled going for the bolt on trike once I learned it had loud pipes....My home owner's assn. does nto allow them...So I found a true trike, also a small one, and found sufficient good comments about them on the Suzuki/kawa section of our forum...I am buying a 2005 Suzuki C50 (800 cc) with Lehman tramp trike conversion for a very fair price, not much more than the Voyager bolt on I am giving up on...it has 1600 miles...rides great, steers like a dream, very short turning radius, etc....plenty of pep for me....Some folks dissed it on the Suz/Kaw section of our forum....Yet, others praised it....My test ride proved to be sufficient for me to snap it up..I pick it up Wednesday....I don't mind if anyone chimes in with their opinion of this trike, but for sure I won't be taking any overnight trips on it and my prime reason is to have it upright and not struggle with balance...I won't be having a passenger, either...It has a nice top box behind the passenger seat, so the tiny trunk in the body of the trike is on no consequence for me..

All regards,

Bob

[skuuter]

WELCOME to TRIKE TALK.....

[pcombe]

Thanks for your empathy concerning my wife....nice of you to understand I don't need a full blown wing or triglide..

Ok, now for this news..I cancelled going for the bolt on trike once I learned it had loud pipes....My home owner's assn. does nto allow them...So I found a true trike, also a small one, and found sufficient good comments about them on the Suzuki/kawa section of our forum...I am buying a 2005 Suzuki C50 (800 cc) with Lehman tramp trike conversion for a very fair price, not much more than the Voyager bolt on I am giving up on...it has 1600 miles...rides great, steers like a dream, very short turning radius, etc....plenty of pep for me....Some folks dissed it on the Suz/Kaw section of our forum....Yet, others praised it....My test ride proved to be sufficient for me to snap it up..I pick it up Wednesday....I don't mind if anyone chimes in with their opinion of this trike, but for sure I won't be taking any overnight trips on it and my prime reason is to have it upright and not struggle with balance...I won't be having a passenger, either...It has a nice top box behind the passenger seat, so the tiny trunk in the body of the trike is on no consequence for me..

All regards,

Bob

My friends wife has a c-50's. She has had a Harley springer trike and a Kawasaki 1600 trike but it seems she rides the c-50 most of the time, It really doesn't have allot of trouble keeping up on the road so it sounds as if it will work for you.
The darn thing has been reliable too.
A trike is a geezer pleaser and keeps us old boys in the wind