The Wednesday Ride

I am enjoying some renewed mobility thanks to my trike.  I think it is at least a couple years since since I've gotten to the end of 15th St. where the little nicho is located. 

The weather has been perfect for such excursions, and it looks like we'll enjoy another ten days before the first frost.

New Mexico was visited Tuesday night by the Northern Lights.  We could only see a hint of them to the North, but our daughter got a nice view from the eastern heights of the city

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PS: 

I see that I photographed the ikon in its nicho nearly five years ago with my then newly acquired Leotax Elite.

B Song

Balloons

Blueberry Pancakes

Bike *

Beautiful Morning

*Actually a three-wheeler.

My New Trike

 When I first tried out this three-wheeler I was surprised to find I could not seem to steer it.  When I put pressure on the peddles the thing just wanted to turn sharply.  It baffled me as I had been riding bicycles all my life until I started falling off because of weakness due to tendon injuries.

I found a youtube video of a fellow demonstrating how to ride.  I saw that he had a very upright posture and he was steering with just two fingers.  That encouraged me to try again following his example.  I also found that pushing the handlebar on the side opposite the desired turn direction was a better technique.  Once I was able to get myself up and down the street, the process began to seem more natural and intuitive.

 The Old Trike

I played around with 3D drawing programs about twenty years ago and one of my first efforts was to reconstruct my memory of my first trike in the mid-1940s.  I don't recall any difficulty in learning to ride this one.  Kids seem to take to the task with no problem.

Happy trails!

shiny

This version was produced with a rendering program called Shaderlight which operates as a plugin for Google Sketchup. The program makes direct use of Sketchup's textures, but can also enhance imported textures. The interactive operation is a big improvement over anything else I have tried. Shaderlight is still at the Beta stage, but it certainly looks promising.

in situ

my trike