[quote author=MrWizard link=1457650162/0#4 date=1457721441]
Getting old does suck though .. I would recommend avoiding it.
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You have an acceptable alternative?
The trike is dead weight, and a pound lost there is a pound lost. Your weight is live weight, and to some extent can contribute to your effort. So any personal weight loss effort needs to be careful to work toward optimal weight, as Doug suggested, rather than to minimize it. At any rate, it may take a loss of five pounds of body fat to have the same effect as one pound of trike weight. Even then, it's wasted if you don't encounter any hills!