20/05/2019
As you maybe aware we have had the privilege of purchasing a ‘new’ trike last year, so I thought it would be good to reflect on our old trike and how we transitioned to the new one.
The original three stooges, (Sam Lecons, Geredd Hayes, Sam Prior) first saw this 10-year-old Trilsed trike for sale, when we were beginning our search for trikes in 2017, at an amount that we could afford. We could barely contain our excitement as the three of us crammed into Sam Prior’s ute, as we drove to down to have our first glance at our prospective race vehicle. Our first impressions were mixed, it would need some work, but the value for money with the spare parts included made it a genuine option for purchase. After some discussion we agreed on a price, paid and came home with a trike we could call ours.
Due to the fact it was previously a primary school car we had to do some major modification, Geredd our trusty engineer started designing how we could begin to transform this trike. The Sam’s focused on demolition work and fibre glassing the trike. After much welding cursing, more welding, designing and mounting we finally had a trike that we could race affectively . With Daniel Grosser joining the team and a few last-minute adjustments we were able to race Loxton and the two Victoria Park races in 2018.
Now we had a problem, after all our hard work the trike was still to small for our tallest rider Daniel Grosser, so in the best interest of the team we set out to acquire a new racing vehicle. With the help of major sponsorship from Road Map to Fitness and Hamilton Harvest we as a team had a larger budget to work with as we began our second search for a new trike. This enabled us to purchase a Trump Trike raced in 2018 by the Trump Trike Racing team. After much work we now had the trike of our dreams, never believing that we would have this opportunity we thank our sponsors and all those who have helped and believed in us over the journey.