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Here you go. Get a load of this little beauty. I hadn't seen them before. Don't know where they come from, though this is an Aussie company. Bit steep price wise but something to keep an eye on.  http://www.wedgetailoutriders.com.au/index.html
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Those things are all over here in the US. Look like training wheels to me. 
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I see the PITTSBURGH POLICE use them. Imagine a couple of dozen of them escorting you out of the city. 
A dog, a bike, a ute,
Now in the deep south.. Newcastle.
Cold winters, cold rain
Come on summer
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"Bit steep price wise". You got that right. $9500 AUD
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I have an opinion on things like that. The same opinion i have for Trikes.
BUY A FRIGGEN CAR.
Unless of course, a rider has a physical disability that prevents them from riding a two wheeler. Overwise...i refer to my comment above.
Last edited by Arsenalfan; 08/17/2007 9:48 AM.
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I could see my friend with the after market leg putting one of those to good use. He wants something besides his VW trike.
I learned all I need to know about life by killing smart people and eating their brains.
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Should be Riding
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Seems that they showed off their product to the Coffs Branch of the  One has to like the Ulysses Club's motto. Right Pat? 
Blowing gravel off rural roads
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There used to be a guy with a Sportster fitted with one of those that always took it on the now defunct Tulari run. The real rear tire was always bald from poor traction.
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Starting to see these things around here also.
The percentage you're paying is too high-priced
While you're living beyond all your means
And the man in the suit has just bought a new car
From the profit he's made on your dreams
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I first came across the Ulysses Club many years ago here in Aus. I thought that their motto was great but when I tried to join I was told to "go away sonny". Now Twenty odd years later I have just joined as a junior member. Can't wait for the big meet up here next year. Can't see me buying a trike just yet. Interesting point about the tyre going bald. My ex boss said to me just after I started working for him how he wanted to get a trike. I thought fair enough he can't be too bad. Then he describes that he wants to cruise down the highway with his bandanna over his (42 year old) dreadlocks(yes he has dreadlocks) giving everyone the finger! I should have quit then and saved myself a lot of pain. Just before I left my admin assistant(secretary) said that he had worked for a lot of mad people in his time but never any certifiable ones. Hopefully he never will get one. He will give ALL riders a bad name. 
A dog, a bike, a ute,
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Cold winters, cold rain
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If it means someone with a disability can keep riding then I can concede there's a market (probably cheaper than getting their own bike triked).
If it means you qualify to get out on 2 .. er .. 4 wheels (!!!) because you have driving license restrictions, then, I MIGHT just not throw rocks at you ...
(I suppose if you wanted a bike then you could always get off your a$$ and do the test like the rest of us!)
... otherwise, this has to be the stoopidest, most idiotic piece of crap I have ever seen.
IMO ...
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Quote:
I first came across the Ulysses Club many years ago here in Aus.
I met a couple of Ulysses members at a service area somewhere. One of them had his daughter wih him. She was older than me....
Nice guys though.
Gina
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06 America - missing, presumed in bits. With it's TBS wheel... 
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Quote:
If it means someone with a disability can keep riding then I can concede there's a market (probably cheaper than getting their own bike triked).
If it means you qualify to get out on 2 .. er .. 4 wheels (!!!) because you have driving license restrictions, then, I MIGHT just not throw rocks at you ...
(I suppose if you wanted a bike then you could always get off your a$$ and do the test like the rest of us!)
... otherwise, this has to be the stoopidest, most idiotic piece of crap I have ever seen.
IMO ...
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I don't know about how stupid or idiotic the 'training wheels' are, but is sure is funny to watch a Pittsburgh motorcycle cop cruising down the highway on his bike in a blizzard. 
Gotta be freezing his you know what off.
They do only use them in the winter months.
Doesn't everybody's life revolve around food?
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