Thanks guys. Good point on the pedals. At 52 I don’t recover from injury as well as I used to. So an once of prevention as it were
Are there any brands/designs that you might recommend?
Most of the folks I know use the cheapest Shimano mine are M520 they can usually found mew and second hand.
Yes I am experiencing some steering issues. No real “twitchiness” mainly “warble“ when I do the classic “Look Ma no hands” move. Admittedly the damper was a quick fix as I’ve only roughly dialed things in. Though I am now wondering if changing the way caster angle is achieved was a mistake.
Someone came on here claiming his welds were breaking and re-welding was not helping.
he had a bad wobbly and fixed it by adding a steering damper , well it stopped the wobble !
However the energy of the wobble was transferred to the frame mounting point of the damper and the weld was not failing , the tubing was tearing at the change in thickness between it and the weld.
Also adding a rear disc brake in hopes that along with the rear v that there will be enough combined braking power so that I won’t have to add front ones.
Please don't do this it is dangerous , no trike should [only] have a brake on a single wheel that is used to stop the vehicle when it is being ridden [ they are safe for parking brakes only ]
On a tadpole at some point the rear wheel will lock up and the trike will swap ends or roll or both ! , this is dangerous.
On a delta the front wheel will lock up and there will be no steering , this is also dangerous !
Paul