Quote Originally Posted by Bad JuJu
I often do my warmup on a rail-trail before turning onto the road to do some hill work, and today I saw the strangest things on the trail. Two people, each "riding" (it's hard to figure out what to call this activity) a thing that looked sort of like a scooter, but taller, and with three wheels instead of two, one up front and two behind. There was that same tall handle that a scooter has, but their feet stood on platforms over each of the rear wheels. There wasn't any sort of chain drive mechanism that I could see, but they seemed to make the things move by steering the handle from side to side. I guess the physical benefit is probably to the core muscles since it seems to be a repetitive twisting motion, sort of like kayaking.
The woman had a tiny dog in her backpack--he seemed to be smiling!
Anybody ever seen such things before? I probably should've slowed down and talked to them, but I really had a good pace going and didn't want to interrupt it.
I saw one of those a couple of days ago! It was the strangest thing. No, it wasn't a Segway, all I could think of was that it looked like a mechanical crab-thing. It looked kinda awkward, but I could see the physical benefits.
It wasn't very space efficient, either, as the range of motion forced the rider to take up the entire bike lane.