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Exceed Your Limitations
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Angie intended on riding the 50 mile and I intended on the 100k on the Catrike 700. I hung with the fast 25 plus gang to the first stop. I let them go as they weren't too keen on a trike hanging at that speed. It was awesome to ride that fast for 11 miles in the lead group on a trike. As we pulled out of the first stop, I told Angie I'd hang with her until a fast group cam up. a few seconds later, I see Mark Leuck in my mirror. I waived to Angie and took off. I rode with Mark for about 1/2 mile, and just as I told him I was going to hang back and wait for Angie, I had a major mechanical. I limped in to the 2nd rest stop (mile 20), and my day was over. The whole lower end; idler, chain, stops, etc... all binded together. Two bike shops tried unsuccessfully to fix it. EVBLAZER and his very nice wife stopped and tried to help. Angie said she wasn't going to leave me, and we caught a SAG back to the start. I've had quite a few problems with the trike since day 1, so I called Woody at RBM. He gave me a prompt refund, was very kind to me and said that they are trying real hard to improve their image. Due to work requirements, I cannot go to the Rans factory next week either. I still may pick up th V3 Al when PCF gets one in stock for me to test. So now that I'm two bikes short, I'm going to possibly go to Calif., and test a V2K.
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