Good trip

It's nice to get out on a sunny day and ride the bikes.   Anita's trike is a bit of a new experience, and is easiest for her on wide, flat paths with no car traffic.   Fortunately, the Mayenne is cris-crossed with a number of bike tracks that fit this description, since they are laid out along disused railway lines.   We made the first outing starting somewhere other than at our house, earlier this week.

We got the trike into the back of the Espace (a first); I had to lower the handlebars to get it in, but it wasn't hard.  My bike went in easily beside it, and we set off and parked the car at a starting point on the track at Marcillé-la-Ville.  We went Eastwards as far as La Chapelle au Riboul and turned around there, for a round trip of about 9Km.

The good thing about the trike is that when the track crosses a road, necessitating a stop, there is no need to get off and on again; this is an advantage since the old railway had several level crossings.  One can ride the trike as slowly as one likes in these tricky spots, with no lack of stability.

As a post script, when we got back I decided to take the trike out, to see how it rides.  I took it from home, down to the river, up the hill the other side, into the village and back home again, about 3km.  A hilly round trip, I used maximum assist up the hills, and freewheeling downhill I got it up to 40kph.   The steering was a bit twitchy at 40, but manageable.