Getting back on......

[matthewslack]

Recumbent Trikes

We offer a wide range of recumbent trikes for users of varying ability from brands such as Van Raam, Hase & Tomcat.

www.johnpreston.co.uk

Three wheels in some forms demands far less from the arms.

 

[Middlewife]

Recumbent Trikes

We offer a wide range of recumbent trikes for users of varying ability from brands such as Van Raam, Hase & Tomcat.

www.johnpreston.co.uk

Three wheels in some forms demands far less from the arms.

Thanks for suggestion, I did have a static recumbent bike for a while, waiting to see if I need surgery or just being a wuss, will bear it in mind.

 

[saneagle]

Recumbent Trikes

We offer a wide range of recumbent trikes for users of varying ability from brands such as Van Raam, Hase & Tomcat.

www.johnpreston.co.uk

Three wheels in some forms demands far less from the arms.

Are you sure about that? It doesn't tie up with my experience. It's true that the leaning forward position on some bikes puts a lot of weight through your arms, but that's riding position - nothing to do with the number of wheels. You can get bicycles with upright riding positions and no weight supported by arms. The steering forces on a bicycle are much less than a tricycle because you have to do work to change direction on trike or quad, but not on a bicycle, where you do much less work to lean the bike. Bikes can steer themselves. Trikes can't.

In the early 70's, when I drove a sidecar outfit, I had chest and arm muscles like Arnold Schwartzenegger. The force needed to get one round a roundabout was massive.

 

[matthewslack]

Are you sure about that? It doesn't tie up with my experience. It's true that the leaning forward position on some bikes puts a lot of weight through your arms, but that's riding position - nothing to do with the number of wheels. You can get bicycles with upright riding positions and no weight supported by arms. The steering forces on a bicycle are much less than a tricycle because you have to do work to change direction on trike or quad, but not on a bicycle, where you do much less work to lean the bike. Bikes can steer themselves. Trikes can't.

In the early 70's, when I drove a sidecar outfit, I had chest and arm muscles like Arnold Schwartzenegger. The force needed to get one round a roundabout was massive.

I'm thinking of a limited range of trike configurations, and with limited capabilities, and tending to the annoying part of the cost spectrum!

Two wheels at the back, armchair style seating with lots of sideways support for shoulders as well as hips, convenient steering arrangement.

I'd rather the OP recovers fully, but there are ways of continuing active with restricted limb strength and movement.