Where, how to store a folding tricycle?
..We like to bring bicycles with us when we camp. Really like riding where ever we go. It used to be that all of us would ride - me, DW, and both the kids. The kids especially, like to ride a lot.
Unfortunately now, DW has got to where she does not want to ride a 2 wheel bicycle anymore. She has been really pushing me to get her a 3 wheel tricycle, something like the folding adult tricycle that Camping World sells. She just has this total 'fear' of toppling over on a 2 wheeler and the damage that will do (that at our age, wouldn't heal quite as fast, haha).
While I really am not crazy about the idea, I'm willing to do it just so she will continue to ride with us (we need the exercise!). The huge dilemma we have that I just cannot find a way around, is where in the heck am I going to stow/carry that tricycle??
We tow a Ford Fusion behind a Motorhome. I use a 4 bike rack on the back of the Fusion (hitch receiver mounted) to carry the bikes. In an effort to avoid a bunch of wasted posts making susggestions that won't work, here's the things I've looked into, tried, that will not work:
1. Tricycle will not go on 4 bike rack we have now on back of the Fusion, as it would take up almost entire rack and other 3 bikes couldnt go on it, then.
2. Cannot mount 2nd bike rack to tow bar or MH hitch receiver on back of MH. The tow bar we use (ReadyBrake) has a brake actuator arm that will get in the way of a bike rack there. Looked at the Blue Ox tow bar mounted unit also, it will not work, either, due to the receiver drop bar we have to use.
3. Tricycle, even folded up, is too big to fit in back seat or trunk of Fusion. Nor will it fit in any storage compartment of the MH. Having 3 wheels just makes it too darn big, haha. Yes, I've measured several times to verify. Do not want to store it inside the MH, either, due to concerns about it scratching things up on its way in, out of the MH.
4. Impossible to mount a bike rack on front of the MH, so it can't go there. Just not a good way to mount anything up there.
5. Looked into, found that they make stability wheels that will mount on any 2 wheel bicycle (basically, 'training wheels' with suspension for adults). DW wants nothing to do with these.
Only other thing I can think of, that have not researched much: Mounting, installing some kind of rack or storage on top of car, that would carry the tricycle. Not sure how I'd go about that, though.
Any idea, suggesions I haven't thought of?
Unfortunately now, DW has got to where she does not want to ride a 2 wheel bicycle anymore. She has been really pushing me to get her a 3 wheel tricycle, something like the folding adult tricycle that Camping World sells. She just has this total 'fear' of toppling over on a 2 wheeler and the damage that will do (that at our age, wouldn't heal quite as fast, haha).
While I really am not crazy about the idea, I'm willing to do it just so she will continue to ride with us (we need the exercise!). The huge dilemma we have that I just cannot find a way around, is where in the heck am I going to stow/carry that tricycle??
We tow a Ford Fusion behind a Motorhome. I use a 4 bike rack on the back of the Fusion (hitch receiver mounted) to carry the bikes. In an effort to avoid a bunch of wasted posts making susggestions that won't work, here's the things I've looked into, tried, that will not work:
1. Tricycle will not go on 4 bike rack we have now on back of the Fusion, as it would take up almost entire rack and other 3 bikes couldnt go on it, then.
2. Cannot mount 2nd bike rack to tow bar or MH hitch receiver on back of MH. The tow bar we use (ReadyBrake) has a brake actuator arm that will get in the way of a bike rack there. Looked at the Blue Ox tow bar mounted unit also, it will not work, either, due to the receiver drop bar we have to use.
3. Tricycle, even folded up, is too big to fit in back seat or trunk of Fusion. Nor will it fit in any storage compartment of the MH. Having 3 wheels just makes it too darn big, haha. Yes, I've measured several times to verify. Do not want to store it inside the MH, either, due to concerns about it scratching things up on its way in, out of the MH.
4. Impossible to mount a bike rack on front of the MH, so it can't go there. Just not a good way to mount anything up there.
5. Looked into, found that they make stability wheels that will mount on any 2 wheel bicycle (basically, 'training wheels' with suspension for adults). DW wants nothing to do with these.
Only other thing I can think of, that have not researched much: Mounting, installing some kind of rack or storage on top of car, that would carry the tricycle. Not sure how I'd go about that, though.
Any idea, suggesions I haven't thought of?
