drivers in this city are just crazy, sprinkle in a couple of these facts ...
Arizona residents 18 or older can openly carry a gun without a license
or,
they can conceal carry without a license if they are 21 or older.
Arizona also honors concealed carry permits from all other states and political subdivisions.
These two facts alone make getting into an argument with another driver a quite disastrous proposition.
Where am I going with this you ask ? Good question ... If we want to take the trikes to 'The Loop' we need to transport them there somehow as riding them along the major streets here is something only hardcore professionals or the insane do here.
We have only found two or three hitch mount trike carriers that are made for two trikes.
One is made specifically for tadpole trikes where the trikes are mounted vertically with the single rear wheel at the bottom of the carrier.
Which is fine, as the rear wheel of a tadpole is stationary -vs- a delta like ours where the single wheel is in front and used to steer the trike and would not really work on that carrier.
A different carrier has the trikes stacked horizontally, which seems great for the bottom trike but at some point you have to manually lift the second trike up onto the top rack.
This would be a major issue as Sue is only 5' tall.
The other issue is cost. Both of these carriers run into the $500-$700 range.
I did find a third carrier, it is a modular design, and when I added up all of the pieces needed for our two EZ-3 HD trikes it came to $2,200. YIKES !
So the current status quo is to keep the trikes inside the house in an upright position to take up less space. Fortunately, the house is big enough for us to be able to do this.
We are also looking at the possibility of a small trailer (easily stolen), trading in the travel trailer for a travel toy hauler (Expen$ive) with extra space in the back for the trikes, or a cheap beater vehicle (van/truck) that we can use to transport the trikes around town.
You might say ... "Well, you have a big truck, what's the problem ?"
The problem is that although the truck is probably big enough to handle both trikes, it has a hard shell tonneau cover mounted over the cargo area that is not easily removed or stored. The cover also doubles as secure storage for items we put into the cargo area when travelling. Even laying the seats flat on the trikes does not allow the tonneau cover to close completely and everything needs to be strapped down to travel.
So the search for a solution continues.
I did find a third carrier, it is a modular design, and when I added up all of the pieces needed for our two EZ-3 HD trikes it came to $2,200. YIKES !
So the current status quo is to keep the trikes inside the house in an upright position to take up less space. Fortunately, the house is big enough for us to be able to do this.
We are also looking at the possibility of a small trailer (easily stolen), trading in the travel trailer for a travel toy hauler (Expen$ive) with extra space in the back for the trikes, or a cheap beater vehicle (van/truck) that we can use to transport the trikes around town.
You might say ... "Well, you have a big truck, what's the problem ?"
The problem is that although the truck is probably big enough to handle both trikes, it has a hard shell tonneau cover mounted over the cargo area that is not easily removed or stored. The cover also doubles as secure storage for items we put into the cargo area when travelling. Even laying the seats flat on the trikes does not allow the tonneau cover to close completely and everything needs to be strapped down to travel.
So the search for a solution continues.
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