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3 wheelers rule
Last week I was casting spoons in a beaver pond. I really was doing a better job of entertaining the beaver than interesting the trout, but I knew that would be the case. It was just an excuse to walk a fair bit back in the bush along a gas pipeline.
So, I'm up the creek with the beaver, who are swimming across where I cast the spoon (hmmm wonder where the trout were?) and I hear a 4-wheeler coming up the pipeline. When I get back to the pipeline, my wife tells me there were two people on it and they did a bunch of fishing around getting down and up the rocky banks and across the creek.
They're called 4-wheelers around here even if it's getting hard to remember when they used to be missing a wheel. Three-wheelers are just too dangerous on the bush trails around here and nobody has one anymore. Of course, a passenger on the luggage rack of a 4-wheeler does dangerous in it's own right, but then it's the people not the design that's at fault. Don’t even have to be going 50 mph on a road to be inappropriate.
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3 wheelers rule
I’m happy enough to hear support for 3-wheelers even if it doesn't quite match the ideas around here. The last 3-wheeler disappeared about 3 years ago. Could be that what people really want is 4wd, and I don't know if 4wd vs. 2wd drive could be made into a serious safety issue or not. I'll think about it.
Back in my beginning days of dirt biking in Colorado (I moved to Michigan and didn't get too far past beginning) I took a spill and still can see the scar if I look closely. At moderate speed, I came over a rise in a jeep trail. There was a wash just over the top that jeeps had seriously rutted. The front wheel went into a rut, which pulled the rear wheel into the rut as well. The bike went along banging from side to side in the rut until the trail took a slight bend. The bike popped out of the rut and pitched me over the handlebars. The scar came from my sliding along the rocks on my elbows--wouldn't have happened in leather.
Anyway, that's how I think of one-wheel steering. Don't know if my slide along the trail would have happened with 3 wheels or with 4 wheels, but 4 seems like a better idea. We might even get a 4-wheeler, but the idea of a two-person mule type seems better. The main use would be to get our canoe into some remote areas. Canoes go on racks on top of 4-wheelers around here. With the weight of our pig of a white-water canoe overhead, I think a four-wheel platform would be preferable.
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