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"Christopher Jordan" wrote in message om... "skip" wrote in message ... Is that the new cheap Sun tadpole trike I've been hearing about? $kip A prototype of the Sun tadpole was made earlier, and Easy Racers is using it as a velomobile base. It has skinnier tires and a red color (apparently the main color is bright yelllow; I do not know how mine got by!), so this is not a spy photo! Chris Jordan Santa Cruz, CA. So I take it you already have your Sun tadpole. How to you like it compared to the other trikes you have owned? skip |
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skip wrote:
"Larry Varney" wrote in message ... Tom Sherman wrote: $kip wrote: "Tom Sherman" wrote in message ... $kip wrote: "Tom Sherman" wrote in message ... This is my idea of a comfortable tadpole. http://www.ihpva.org/incoming/2002/Dragonflyer/df2.jpg Is that the new cheap Sun tadpole trike I've been hearing about? Ask Larry Varney what it is. -- I think Larry has had quite enough of me for the time being so I won't annoy him further by asking him to ID this particular trike. Actually I just noticed that the name Dragonflyer was incorporated in the URL. Could this possibly be your Dragonflyer? The one you snapped up on eBay before others had a chance to bid on it? This is the trike that Larry Varney was trying to get on the cheap during an eBay auction, when someone else used the "Buy it Now" option. The winning bidder re-sold the trike to me the next day. It's a great looking trike. I've heard they're quite rare and almost impossible come by these days. I'm sure this one has appreciated greatly over the past several years and must be worth a great deal of money now. It must be great having an asset that appreciates rapidly and yet is such a pleasure to own. I have not been able to get an exact number on Dragonflyer production, but I believe around 170 were built. I don't think it is appreciating in value, but the price was very reasonable considering the trike probably had only been ridden once or twice, and also in comparison to suspended trikes of similar quality from Trice and Greenspeed that can easily cost in excess of $4000 US. "Snapped up"? How about STOLEN practically right out of my quivering hands! My first introduction to trikes was a couple of weeks on a borrowed Dragonflyer, and I couldn't believe my luck when that one came up on eBay. So when it was "snapped up" right when I was getting into the bidding process, I was dismayed, devastated, destroyed. All I could think of was, I hoped that it hadn't fallen into the greedy clutches of some smirking moron. But seriously, had I bought that trike then, chances are that it would have been sold already - I do have a penchant for wheeling-and-dealing, though not to the extent of that guy in Toledo - and I have had some good trikes along the way to console myself with. -- Larry Varney Cold Spring, KY http://home.fuse.net/larryvarney I saw a photo of Tom with his head sticking out of a socked Tailwind. He appeared to be smirking to me. Must have been right after he arranged to buy the Dragonflyer through that convoluted deal he set up. $kip I'm not surprised. Those Illinoiseans are like that. -- Larry Varney Cold Spring, KY http://home.fuse.net/larryvarney |
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"skip" wrote in message ...
So I take it you already have your Sun tadpole. How to you like it compared to the other trikes you have owned? skip The Sun is currently at Easy Racers factory being fitted, but when it was "unadorned" with the body, it was fairly responsive (but not TOO!) , didn't lift at all, and compared somewhat to a heavy and taller Catrike. I could tell right off it was more a generic- more uses- trike: cruise one day, run errands the next, tackle downhills the next, etc. I liked it! Especially the disc brakes. Really NO comparison with appearance! The Cat was gorgeous to me and so responsive! Best all out cruiser: Optima Ryder- but it was long and heavy. Sort of between those two. My TerraTrike has held together for a long time, but it is also pretty generic- that is why I hung on to it- an all around worker (and darn good pack mule)! Chris |
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$kip wrote:
... I saw a photo of Tom with his head sticking out of a socked Tailwind. He appeared to be smirking to me. Must have been right after he arranged to buy the Dragonflyer through that convoluted deal he set up. Note that this page is in the pre-2001 archive section http://www.ransbikes.com/Gallery/Archive/Sherman.htm . I doubt my Dragonflyer was even built when the picture was taken (it has a high serial number indicating that it was one of the last ones built). -- Tom Sherman - Rock Island County Illinois Tetrahedral carbon lattices are not forever. |
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"Tom Sherman" wrote in message ... $kip wrote: ... I saw a photo of Tom with his head sticking out of a socked Tailwind. He appeared to be smirking to me. Must have been right after he arranged to buy the Dragonflyer through that convoluted deal he set up. Note that this page is in the pre-2001 archive section http://www.ransbikes.com/Gallery/Archive/Sherman.htm . I doubt my Dragonflyer was even built when the picture was taken (it has a high serial number indicating that it was one of the last ones built). -- Tom Sherman - Rock Island County Illinois Tetrahedral carbon lattices are not forever. Well, of course I didn't know any of this. I just saw your smirk and it looked to me to be a "I just aced Varney of a trike" kind of smirk. So you must have been smirking about something else. Sorry. $kip |
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