Ok, now you've done it. :-) I want one. I looked at trikke.com, and there seems to be a website for Spain, so Sitges watch out. :-)
How much do they cost? That's the only information I don't seem to be able to find easily. Unc --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Rick: "So what is that thing? Who invented it? Can it go forward at a > decent speed, or is it just good for fooling around in circles?" > > Ed: I've posted hundreds of times about trikking on trikking Web sites. > > A Trikke is a very deep metaphor with very wide applications. Easy to > see the Trikke as a spiritual program, or even as a Master, for instance. > > I can get up to about 15MPH comfortably for at least a few miles, > cruise for hours at about 10MPH, and climb up to a 17% grade hill. > One can carve a three foot wide sidewalk, or do huge 20 foot wide > "swaths of Doom." It's all fun. > > Here's me doing about 10 - 15 MPH going up a 12% hill and back down: > > http://youtube.com/watch?v=KbXRXYxo-Zk > > Also, I do dozens and dozens of tricks on the Trikke -- but most of > the tricks are too subtle for a non-trikker to really appreciate. > Going down a curb, for instance, takes more than just a dollop of > courage when one is first learning it, and it's not learned with a few > attempts -- takes 50 - 100 times before one can "just go down a curb" > without intense mindfulness of the action. And there's many ways to > go down a curb -- some very artistic, some very athletic. Like that > the Trikke, for four years, has had me out there "every day" nuancing > my skill set. In the above video, you'll see me jump over a speedbump > -- nothing but net. That took a lot of practice, let me tell ya, yet, > it's almost nothing to the casual observer who has probably seen > skateboarders etc. do such amazing things, but, if you want your heart > in your throat, try jumping a speedbump with a Trikke for the first > time. The emotional thrill of trikking is an all time reality, and > one can jack it up or tamp it down at will by changing one's carving > style. Risk management is a constant palpable dynamic. One chooses > amount of risk as much as one chooses amount of effort being expended. > This makes the Trikke into an artist's tool. How one dances around a > neighborhood with a Trikke is different every time. > > "Every day" means any day above 20 degrees with dry surfaces > available. And additionally on many days below zero, or with slush > everywhere but enough "islands of dry" to trikke from one "traction > area" to another. Like that -- gotta trikke! I can't think about > the Trikke without wanting to get on one NOW. > > It's buttah! Discuss amongst yourselves. > > I use my Trikke mostly around the neighborhood, but I'd say, most > trikkers like to get out there and carve for serious distances -- 5 > -15 miles in a session. I like to do about five to ten miles a day > futzing around locally, but one guy trikked across the United States, > then did Europe, and now he's doing the United States again. Other > folks have done over 100 miles in a day, and one guy did 350 miles > NON-STOP over, say, 36 hours of trikking. So the Trikke will be to > you what you want it to be when it comes to "having fun getting fit." > > I can just carve my driveway and be in a desperate, out of breath, 170 > heart beats per minute, drenched in sweat state in FIVE MINUTES FLAT > if I really put the oomph into my carves. Aerobically and > weight-training-wise -- I just cannot think of any machine that can > get one as fit across so many muscle groups with so little stress on > the body. Anyone who can think a thought can meditate, and anyone who > can walk can learn to trikke. Walking is "always falling," right? > Twenty minutes a day three times a week will be more than anyone needs > to stay fit, and 20 minutes EVERY DAY will be the minimal addiction to > trikking if one "gets into the poetry" of it. Gotta have it. It's > dancing -- see Fred Astaire's dance with the coat rack. > > http://youtube.com/watch?v=xbBdgSnPkGI > > A full body workout with almost zero impact on joints. I've lost over > 50 pounds of fat and put back on, say, 10 - 15 pounds of muscle. My > love handles are almost gone now despite still being about 30 pounds > overweight. Trikking impact "core" bigtime. I lose weight > immediately if I diet and do my normal trikking. Just gotta stop > shoving goop into my pie hole, but sigh....the Trikke doesn't teach > one that skill. I burn about 400 calories in a 30 minute session, > and, sheesh, that's merely a soft drink and a bag of chips worth. > Easy to shovel it in, but at least trikking has upped my metabolism > and I can actually eat quite a lot without gaining weight. Not that I > would ever do such a thing of course. Ahem. > > Observers are hard pressed to tell how it works when first > encountering trikking. It looks like almost no effort is being > expended for the speeds obtained, yet it is a much more demanding > workout to muscle the machine around than a bike presents -- if one > wants that -- or easier than a bike -- if one wants that. One decides > how taxing it is, second by moment by second. And one decides if the > whole body, upper body, lower body is emphasized. One can trikke > using almost no muscles but the arms, or just the legs, if one wants. > And the Trikke can be made very hard to use if the tires have only > half the pressure they ordinarily should have. Over a few weeks, I > let my tires gradually leak out air until they're down to 40PSI; and > it gets harder and harder to carve; then back up to 90PSI and the > Trikke turns into a drag racer once again after all that low pressure > slogging as if in molasses. Slogging builds muscles, let me tell ya! > Or, hell, keep your tires fully inflated and just do a lot of hills. > > I'm always asked, "Where's the motor on that thing?" > > One is always getting a free ride downhill on the Trikke. It looks > like magic provides the propulsion. > > Unlike a bike where one tries to maintain one's balance, on the Trikke > one is always falling to one side or the other, and one's trikking > balance is defined as an intensely "lived" relationship between > gravitational and centrifugal forces. Trikkers love to fall out of > balance in a balanced way. One gets the same free ride down the > gravity-well that surfers, skiers, snowboarders, skateboarders get on > their respective slopes, and even rollerbladers who are essentially > getting a free ride falling from side to side as they stroke along. I > see those folks doing those things, and I feel it in my own body with > remembered trikking feelings. I see someone flying a kite, and I know > what the kite would feel like to ride it. I see birds landing and > know their arcs intimately. I see a tree bend in the wind, and I know > that kind of stretching groaning reaching the end of a tensile > strength -- as when I'm doing my hardest carve and my tires are just > beginning to slip and I'm at the bottom of the gravity well and have > to shift my weight over to the other footpad to get ready for the next > ride down. > > So, gravity does most of the work, but the trikker must put body mass > on the correct scooter -- the one that's going downhill. That's where > the work of the trikker is done. So a trikker is shifting weight > constantly from 100% on one footpad down to zero while the other > footpad gets the body's full weight on it. It's a constant flowing of > mass shifting to another center of gravity and back. Never static. > The Trikke is two scooters joined, and only one of the scooters is > going downhill at any given time. So, getting the body to the correct > scooter ON TIME, is absolutely important to trikking. You gotta dance > with this gizmo. And when I watch Fred and the rack, again, like > watching so many other "gravity relationships in real life," I just > get all these "memories of feelings of trikking" stirred up. I can > feel Fred's balance shifting in time with the rack. Verah nyce! > > And if one misses one's "cue," and if one doesn't arrive "on time" on > the correct footpad, the Trikke speaks back to one FORCEFULLY. The > Trikke is an uncompromising master in telling you about the LEAST > mistake in timing while being quite forgiving in terms of forward > momentum. You can be a pretty poor trikker and still go, say, 7MPH > forwards, but if you really want to get some speed going, gotta have > timing. Without decent timing, a very very very slight slope will > stop you cold. The Trikke is a supremely sensitive slope detector. > Once one has "hill chops," one has arrived. Once one's muscles have > grown to match the needs of carving, hills change from humiliating > challenges to dance floors. > > If you mess up, the footpads "come alive" and seeming push back at you > -- in fact, overwhelmingly push back at you, and one cannot beat the > Trikke into submission -- it cannot be "muscled out of" its > functionality. It will tell you about your least error. After a few > months of practice, a trikker can tell instantly if the Trikke is > needing a bolt tightened or if a brake is dragging ever so slightly or > if the handlebars have become a bit torqued, or if one's feet are a > bit more forward on the footpads. Any change is felt immediately. > > It's art! It's engineering. Trikking is like getting the two halves > of the brain to talk to each other. The design is a set of concepts > -- ala Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance -- that must be > surrendered to as axioms that are both understood intellectually and > proprioceptionally. The mind must learn not to argue with physics and > what the Trikke's spectrum of possibilities are, and the body must > learn to feel the Trikke and be in harmony with its sense of time. > GAWD I want to trikke so badly right now, cuz of attentioning it, but > there's a rainstorm out there right now! Arrrgh! I burn like Spock > in the Time of Pon Farr!!!! > > Here's a few Web pages I put up about trikking -- during my first year > of trikking. Haven't added more there since, but have posted > extensively elsewhere. On these pages, you'll get a feel for my > experiences of trikking even though, nowadays, I have a more matured > appreciation for trikking, my beginner's vision of it was still close > to my take on the Trikke today. Don't miss my Trikke graffiti and > Trikke cartoon sections. > > http://duveyoung.com/trikking/ > > Anyone in Fairfield, Iowa who wants to learn to trikke, get one, let > me know, and I'll drive to town for a visit and schedule a session > with ya and maybe I'll be able to light your afterburners with a few > instructions and observations. > > Trikking is orbiting.......12 inches above the earth. It turns out to > be a very long distance to fall. > > Edg > > PS. The Trikke was invented in Brazil by Gildo Beleski circa 1990, > but it only really got marketed from 2001 onwards. Go to trikke.com > for the Trikke Tech company Web site. Tons of info there. I know the > company very well. First class operation. Very very honest folks. > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <rick@> wrote: > > > > From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Behalf Of Duveyoung > > Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2007 1:24 PM > > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Rambling reply to: "Hey, Edg...what music > did you > > pack to?" > > > > > > > > I posted a couple new trikking vids: > > > > HYPERLINK > > > "http://youtube.com/profile?user=TrikkeGuy"http://youtube.com/profile?user=T > > rikkeGuy > > > > so what is that thing? Who invented it? Can it go forward at a > decent speed, > > or is it just good for fooling around in circles? > > > > > > > > > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > > Version: 7.5.484 / Virus Database: 269.12.0/959 - Release Date: > 8/17/2007 > > 5:43 PM > > >
