"My wife loves her trike, happiest I've ever seen her and we've been together for 44 years."

"I'm 91 years old, 92 next month. My trike lets me exercise my heart, lungs, and legs while having fun…Never planned to live this long, don't know how to act but me and my trike have fun every day."

"We bought one for my husband (disabled Veteran)…he can't walk but maybe 100 steps. OMG!! It only took me 35 years to find something we could do together!!!…We kid about 'we got TRIKES' and we're 'GOIN RIDIEN!!' I love my husband and am Sooo happy to ride with him!!!"

I just love the joy in the reviews. The joy in rediscovering life. The joy in rekindling relationships. The joy in doing something silly and fun and good for you.

@LilahTovMoon oooh, those are lovely! (and holy hell, that 91-year-old fella is looking hella spry!)

i remember just before e-bikes became a thing that everybody knew about, a bicycle afficionado friend talked about increasingly seeing them on trails, and the community grousing about folks cranking them up to max and then get in trouble because they’re driving faster than their reflexes can keep up with.

even back then, our bottom line was that they allow people to enjoy the trails that would otherwise have no chance of doing so. get movement in they wouldn’t otherwise get. see sights they would have to seek out on the tv. go on tours with their friends despite being much less fit. and so on.

as far as i’m concerned, the entire argument about the use of electrically supported mobility devices ended back then.

@LilahTovMoon One time when I was working in a used bike shop someone popped by and dropped a trike sized for like a ten year old kid who's too big for a bigwheel but too small for the adapted stuff you can usually find used.

Well, almost immediately this mom pops by with her disabled son and the owner just hands it to her. Kid was absolutely psyched about the trike and mom almost welled up in tears.

I keep that event in my mind as a reminder that kindness really does makes the world go round.

@LilahTovMoon

paging @notjustbikes

@LilahTovMoon There's a saying that bikes (or in this case trikes) deliver the freedom that cars promise, and these folks look like they are definitely discovering that.

Things like ebikes, trikes and cargo bikes, could all deliver such a revolution in car-free mobility for so many people who thought a car was their only option thanks to age, or needing to travel with kids, or whatever. Now we need the infrastructure to really let it happen.