Quote from Mdicke on Mar 9th, 2016, 8:37pm:The right deal at the right time.
Did a couple of laps around the neighborhood and need to figure out how to keep from pedal steer (or rocking butt steer). Come on Dry Weather.
Congratulations on the purchase! As a Catrike addict, it's so much fun to see others getting their trikes, because I can relive the feeling it was to take delivery of my own. Always looking for that first high!
Where pedal steer and "butt steer" are concerned, they are newbie issues because there are habits brought over from diamond frame days that don't translate well into the 'bent world, especially deeper into the trike dimension, and especially with Catrike space frames. You can influence the steering by pushing left and right shoulders into the seat back. You can even see this while off the trike, by just pushing down on the top of the seat back/chainstay/seat stay triangle. You will find that as you gradually spin the pedals at higher rates, and as your stroke is more circular than "square" as they say in pro cycling, the annoying back and forth movement across the seat and across the lane will decrease. And as long as we're talking about ways to balance the motor, one thing you might do to make yourself more aware of swaying your body, is to "bicycle" your legs while sitting on the floor. Lift your back off the floor, and cross your wrists on your chest. Pedal in the air, isolating the movement of your trunk from everything below your waist. The better you can do this, the less you'll rock in the seat, and consequently you'll know part of the secret to zooming up hills. Try it. It'll only deepen your love of the trike.