Back with a trike review!

Hiya all! I'm back in to relate my experience with the Sun EZ3 Tri-Classic Recumbent Trike, a sweet 3-wheeled recumbent bike I recently got. It's got 21 speeds weighted towards ease of climbing hills, not so much for speed which is fortunate because this trike gets jittery IOW narrow rear wheelspan causes lateral rocking, and the small front wheel causes shaky steering when the speed gets much above 15 miles per hour. So a commuting bike [trike] this most assuredly is not. But it is still a fun bike to ride if one wants some wind-in-the-hair outdoor exercise, which is why I bought mine, after a recent deer-versus-bike accident I had while riding my Giant Suede GX [wrecked in the accident], which also wrecked me but good, it almost killed me!. My poor bod was a solid mass of contusions, hematomas and deep bruises, my right arm was ground down to the bone while my left arm was shattered and required pins and plates/open reduction of compound fracture. NOT FUN!

The Giant Suede got wobbly when i tried to avoid the deer which ran into me, which is what caused me to get knocked off the bike head-over-handlebars, SPLAT! hard onto the pavement. I bought the Sun because I just couldn't bear the thought of ever falling off a bike again! It [my recovery] was one month of hell on wheels, with both arms splinted, being dependent upon the goodwill of my sister/bro-in-law to take care of me as long as I wasn't able to take care of myself. I I gave up totally on 2-wheeled bikes.couldn't brush, i couldn't wipe, i couldn't bathe myself, I was just a mess for over a month, until the casts came off and my arms regained some of their motion. So one can understand why I gave up totally on 2-wheeled bikes.

But enough about me- the Sun Trike is a semi-recumbent design, where the legs/feet are less than 90 degrees perpendicular to the pavement, an easy relaxed riding posture. The Sun features an adjustable rake seat backrest and one can slide the well-padded gel seatbottom back and forth over a foot to find the proper leg stride adjustment. The Sun comes in either a magenta-ish red or an electric blue paint job. By the luck of the draw I got the blue one. For not having any suspension besides relatively fat tires, it rode surprisingly well over the pockmarked and grainy country roads where I live. But one quickly learns to gauge the road's flatness, for dips and bumps are accentuated on this trike, which due to the narrow wheel track feels a lot like being pushed on a wheelchair awfully fast for comfort. Single-wheel dips or bumps make one feel one is about to be flipped to the left or right side unless one is going less than 5 miles per hour. This trike is happiest on new smooth high-quality pavement, but at least it can handle country roads with some caution on the rider's part.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!