Gekkos Are Fun

No, that’s not a typo in the title of this blog post.  Why?  Because the Gekkos I’m referring to are not the ones you find in the wild.  Scratch that.  You might find them in the wild, but it is more likely that you’ll encounter them on paved paths!

Our Gekkos are not to be confused with Gecko, the famed actor of advertisements.

We’ve been looking at wheels to add variety to our ‘active retirement’ days.  No matter which brand or what kind of bike I tried, I didn’t feel comfortable on any of them.  I am not talking about the comfort of the seats.  I just didn’t feel safe enough to ride them for any distance.  Let alone when I might find myself on a bike path along a busy road.

Enter into the scene — the Gekko trike!  I immediately fell in love with these fun wheels.  Our initial plan was to buy a trike for me and a bike for Mui.  But then he made the mistake of test driving a Gekko.  The rest is history and we now have his-and-her wheels to go triking (is that a word?).

We picked up our trikes yesterday.  The adjustments to custom fit them took about three hours.  No surprise, I guess; the shaft on mine had to be sawed-off several inches and reassembled so I could reach the pedals :-)

Plans to go triking at Bull Run this morning didn’t work out as expected, but we did get to take our wheels out for a spin at the nearby county government complex in the afternoon to test the gears and get familiar with our trikes in general.

Here’s an 11-second video that shows me in action!

More on the trikes will be coming soon.

P.S.  For those wondering how on earth we’ll be transporting the Gekkos — they fold and fit into the trunk of the toad!