Differences Between a 2 Wheel Motorcycle & A Trike

[Applause] welcome to the second video from dk custom products on how to transition from riding two wheels to three wheels my name is kevin this is dwayne and i'm a tracker now i just got back from my first real ride on the trike and we're going to discuss it so purposely i haven't asked you anything since we got back from the ride when we what what 20 miles or so back country roads a little bit of traffic and two interstates yeah a little riding on two interstates so what'd you think everything you said exactly as you said how you steer it how you stop it how you have to watch how wide you are like everything you said is at the forefront of your mind the entire time that you're writing it but it's fun and uh i made a few comments along the way about how i felt about it but overall i like it i got a lot of shots of you and you're looking down this way i don't know if you're looking at where the rear fenders were or i don't know what you were doing well some of it i was looking down i'm not used to a heel toe shifter so i had to look down i had to get used to that at first and um you know i didn't want to do anything goofy on your bike while you were watching uh yeah i just had to get a feel for it but once you get a feel for it it's like that it's like it's just like riding a motorcycle you either you know what it feels like to ride a trike or you don't but once you know that feeling it doesn't go away so we get some pretty good curves what what were you thinking like that one curve which is really a right angle i think they say speed limit down to 20 or 25 yeah how did that feel the best way i can describe it is when you're a new rider riding two wheel bikes and you know if you're riding with a group of people and you're like wow they're really going through that curve faster than i'm comfortable with like i don't but then you start to get you know gradually you get just as comfortable and you go through and you feel the exhilaration of going through a curve really fast it's that same feeling but it's a different it's a different g-force instead of you know it feels like you're going to flip over to the opposite side of the curve it just feels like something's pulling you off instead of pulling you down yeah yeah because when you go through on two wheels it pushes you into the seat on the trunk it's trying to push you off the seat yeah if you're trying to try to toss you off the seat so that's what pushing so where you going you're gonna tell them are you pinching the tank i was yeah i was i found myself you know my legs up against the engine i felt the heat and uh i did after a minute you tell yourself just relax sometimes no big deal but it's definitely different i don't know if you're aware of it some of the curves like a right curve you were leaning like this where you aware that you were i was yeah yeah just because i i don't know i didn't want to just be up right you know i didn't want to i didn't want to let whatever was going to happen happen yeah not that mean leaning would have stopped that trite from flipping over [Music] i think there's a stigma that trikes are for the old and feeble and you know i admit i kind of thought that it too at first kind of the way everyone thinks a sportster is a girl bike everyone thinks trikes are just you know an upgrade from a hover round or an electric wheelchair but you know after riding it i don't feel that way not not at all [Music] the trike requires much more effort to operate than a two-wheeled bike it's not as easy to mount it's much larger it has a larger footprint so you have to be more aware of your surroundings when riding the trike it's not near impossible to dodge or avoid or traverse anything in the road you kind of have to decide which of the three tracks you want you want to hit the bump with so in a lot of ways the trike is even more difficult to operate than a two-wheeled bike you know there's only the nuance that the trike stands on its own you don't have to balance it [Music] this particular track light has a 114 so it's not slow by any means you know it it has all the power that i would expect it has more power in fact you know when i visually look at the trike it looks heavy it looks bulky and it looks slow but when you actually ride the truck you see how nimble and quick it can be [Music] but if i had an issue balancing a motorcycle or holding a bike up you know health issues something like that i would most definitely consider a tri-glide or any any trike i know a lot of you guys are thinking about going to a trick a lot of you already have so if you disagree with any of my anything i've said about the experience just let me know or you know anything you felt like i've missed out on that i need to try on kevin's trite let us know so i have some notes here that i want to you know we've already done part one [Music] but um i have some stuff i want to go from part two and as i go over now that you've spent some time riding you know chime in okay let's see so you mentioned that you could really feel the heat when we stopped in that parking lot and you did some emergency stops was it different yes because you did just the front brake at first yeah i did just the front brake just to see what would happen in a controlled environment and yeah it doesn't want to stop that way it doesn't want to and then you put the rear brake on and it was yeah i did it correctly applied the front in conjunction with the rear brake and it's not it was excellent it was it's it's crazy how if you do it correctly it does really really good so we can mention that uh you could really feel the heat and we looked at the power vision and saw what the temperature was we looked at the oil temp the old temp was only 215. yeah your bike's not any hotter than my m8 soft hill in any regards but i just felt that heat like you have the lowers blocking the wind and then you have those rear fenders not letting the wind keep going now that has a lot of cooling stuff done to it imagine what the factory ones are like yeah that is 90 degrees out there today but one of the first things to do cool these puppies down because you get out in hot weather and not only is it bad for the bike but it's uncomfortable yeah yeah and talking about comfort and things you've done to the bike i think i made a comment that um i don't know how i would feel about a stock track i like that one but you know without those comfortable bars and without the backrest and without the floorboard extensions everything done i don't really know how i feel about it and you really wouldn't like the rear suspension yeah yeah so and that's another thing is is that we have the psi at 22 pounds in the rear versus 26 and just those four pounds make those tires a lot more giving in the bumps now did you go fast enough i don't think you did but i'll ask did you go fast enough through any curves that you felt the front tire skipping at all no okay well we'll ride again so some of the advanced things to look at is when you're going through a curve fast enough that front tire will start skipping just a little just skip catch skip catch skip catch and it's shaving the rubber off but that's you're you're at you know a limit there you know that when you feel that front tire skipping across you know you don't want to go a lot faster to a curve but then again i go through almost every curve unless i'm not if i'm having fun i'm going to go through every curve right at the point where that front tire is skipping a little through the curve so and it's nothing it's skipping is nothing to be concerned about other than you're wearing your tire off faster but it's not a sign that oh something bad is going to happen it just happens um now here's another thing and i know some people got hurt on triglides and freewheelers because what will happen is different than a bike so when you're going through a curve curve or you're just going straight and a deer runs out in front of you and you swerve and you get the rear tire off in the gravel or off in the grass and it starts sliding that scares people and when they start sliding they jerk the handlebars the other way and then all of a sudden the tires that were sliding all of a sudden grab traction and they can't flip over yeah and people got hurt that way here's the nice thing it's it's absolutely amazing when i look at the tri-glide it looks like you can just do that and it's going to tip over it doesn't look stable no but when you write it it's like a go-cart yeah this is my experience kevin parolo private party whatever you do is on you yeah what i do is on me what you do is on you this is not advice in fact my advice would be don't do it because if you don't know what you're doing if you haven't discovered it on your own you're probably going to hurt yourself right i was fortunate enough to have kevin to give me pointers before i took out on the trike if a emergency situation would have brought would have presented itself my first instinct would have been to snatch that front brake and that would have been my first instinct and that would have ended badly i wouldn't i'll fully admit that that would have ended badly so but what i'm fixing to say is what i do what i like to do i've never got hurt doing it but you might get hurt doing it so don't ever think that you can say oh you got this advice from kevin okay but i love to drift the trike i've drifted the trike i've drifted the 11 i've drifted the 14 i've drifted the 19 and i've done it on gravel i've been in the sand i've done it on asphalt but you know the on on most of the on-ramps have nice curves yeah banked a little when it's raining when that road is wet you just get on that throttle and just kick you might have to break it loose a little or it might just break loose on its own and you can just drift for 100 yards just have your handlebars going straight and have that back end kicked out yeah burning out the whole way down that on-ramp i remember one curve one road in the yukon it was a very nice gravel road fine gravel and there were lots of curves that were really banked uphill and then downhill and i and mary was on the back and we had all of our stuff we're going to alaska and we were just drifting drifting shifting through those curves the reason i bring that up not to it not to advise anybody to drift but if you do swerve and you find yourself sliding these bikes are very very stable let it slide it's not going to hurt sliding now don't slide into something if it goes like but don't jerk the handlebars the other way if you catch yourself sliding because that will likely high likelihood of flipping over because all of a sudden you go from sliding to now you jerk it the other way now the backing comes around hits the asphalt and could very well flip so sometimes we have to swerve to get around stuff and if we do and we get where it's sliding let it slide it's going to be okay and then what you did you just were riding around in circles in that parking lot seeing what it felt like because you know that's practic that's getting you comfortable so that if you did get in a situation so i think that you can never spend too much time in a parking lot doing emergency stops and doing curves putting even putting some cones out or something and going through curves and getting more and more comfortable doing that the comfort triangle will put a link up here the comfort triangle more than a two-wheel bike it's really important to get things comfortable on the trike because it is so much harder steering did you know you're a young guy but yeah like you could i can see how someone could become fatigued after steering that trick all day yeah for sure because we were a half hour we've got a half hour 40 minutes yeah and i mentioned that while riding that i could feel the tension you know and that's with the aft those aftermarket bars which are much wider and have a lot better leverage plus it has the comfort lift that makes the steering easier so definitely look at the comfort triangle to get the trike comfortable for you [Music] a couple of things the 2014 and up have linked brakes that means that when you're over a certain speed i don't remember what it is 5 or 10 miles an hour if you put the front brakes on a little bit of rear brakes come on if you put rear brakes on a little bit of front brakes and then the lever squeezes in yes i thought i would out of just supply some rear brake i could feel them you break the brake lever pulsing yeah and and so they are linked but if you do only front it's not going to do all the rear yeah so you want to do the front and the rear and then the 19 and up have abs and um and so on the earlier ones that don't have abs you grab all the front braking when you grab the front brake it only stopped until you lost traction then it let up on the brake and then did more but on the uh earlier years it would just lock up the front tire you keep moving and it just be screeching or if you're on a little sand like there's sand in the road a stop sign so don't trust the front brakes on a trike um got to use the rear brakes also then and we talked about this in another video and we'll link it up here but um they have uh the trikes now the 19 and up trikes have rdrs reflexive driver or rdrs you can put up on the screen like it is i can't remember it's a suite of different electronic nanny functions and so when you're going around a curve and you lose a little bit of traction it'll cut the throttle if you're going if you go oh i need to turn into that driveway and you put your brakes on real hard and you turn sharp into the driveway turning right let's say it's going to jerk your handlebars to the left because it's going to see that there's too much lateral force and they're going to go oh we're going to apply just one of the rear brakes to try and straighten it out so there's all kinds of nanny functions on these things to be aware of okay and then you did it you did it without even knowing it you can affect the bike not tipping over by leaning when i'm riding real aggressively we'll put a link up above me and mary riding the dragon where we moved out pretty good through the dragon and when you're going fast faster than you should not advice this is not advice but when you're going faster than you should it can lift up the inside rear tire when you're riding on the edge like that if you lean to the inside it you're shifting the weight to the inside and it will keep that rear tire on the ground longer yeah okay of course you can always go too sharp and too fast that even if you leaned all the way over it could still lift up the nice thing is it'll lift up about that far off the ground if you're not doing something really aggressive it'll lift up about that far off the ground and then it wants to stop because there's a panhard rod and it will keep it from going it won't keep it from going further it will provide resistance to going any further if you pass that resistance point if you lift it higher than that off the ground you've passed that point where the bike is able to sort of keep that tire down and the likelihood is you're going all the way over so if you lift it that far you know that far that far that far but there's a point where you feel sort of like a resistance point to going any further and if you go past that i've gone past it once scared the crap out of me and mary was on the back it scared her too but i felt it go past that little resistance point and man i did everything i counter steered pushed down with my foot and my hip and my weight all over here and i brought it back down but i was in a curve in the ozarks and it was uh it was a curve i was peaking a hill peaking a hill and there was a little bump in the road all those things just contributed and i was going too fast yeah all those things just contributed to it going past that sort of resistance point and i that was four or five years ago and i've been much more careful since then because if we would have went over that same hill that that happened to me on three bikes behind me a guy on a two-wheel bike couldn't make the curve or he couldn't whatever he didn't make the curve and he just shot right across traffic into the weeds rode through a bunch of weeds and a bunch of bumps and then came back out on the road but that was on a two-wheel bike and he went past track you know at least i stayed in my lane um but shifting the weight to the inside if you're going to write aggressively shifting that weight to the inside will prolong it will how do i say it if the tire would come off the ground at x speed [Music] you can shift your weight over to the right and now the tire won't come off the ground until xyz okay single um or you can you know i purposely and we gotta put up here put a link up here to the video where i purposely am uh lifting the rear tar off the ground and we're videoing it from on the back of the bike and then from uh in the parking lot right across the street from the old shop and you can lift it in i can lift and control manner it is not recommendation for anybody else to do it but i can lift it in a controlled manner and you get to know you get a feel for where it is so if you found this uh two-part series on how to go from riding two wheels to three wheels whether it's that you're thinking about getting a three wheeler whether you've already gotten a three-wheeler maybe you're a little uncomfortable in it yeah um i just wanna just wanna reminisce what it felt like through me because it's a new feeling entirely you know give us a thumbs up and share the video with your friends there are a ton of people out there thinking whether they've verbalized it to anybody or not they're thinking you know people go oh man i'm gonna get it if i ever stop riding two wheels i'm gonna get a convertible i'd never go to a trike and i've seen a bunch of those people not get a 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Length: 21min 30sec (1290 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 30 2021