My First Organized Trike Ride

Russ Card from Recumbent Cycles of Utah, organizes summer events called the Bent Bike Boogie. On Saturday I got to ride with the other participants along the Provo River Parkway from the Orem parking lot to Vivian Park and back. The event is open to all the local recumbent riders, bikes and trikes alike. The only ones that showed up this time were trikers. I connected our Walmart-special bike trailer to the back and towed Hannah behind me.

It was an absolute blast. It's fun to ride the trike the trike alone, but with a group of others it's even more fun. And, out of pure coincidence, all of except for one guy were wearing red t-shirts, so it felt like we were part of a club.

The ride to Vivian Park is slightly uphill, but with towing the trailer it was enough to make it hard to keep up with the leader at times. Coming back on the downhill run was a different story. The extra weight of the trailer added some momentum and made it easy to cruise up front.

It's a great group and we already set up a date for our next ride. I told them about our ride around West Mountain, but they said they weren't quite ready for that yet.

I did get the ride on video, but I'll post details about that a little later.