It is good to list advantages but people also need to know what the disadvantages of trikes are.
I would like to take my recumbent trike along but it won't fit inside of my Honda Element and also leave room for much of anything else. I can't carry it on a hitch rack because my home is a small travel trailer. No room on the trailer tongue for it. Can't put a rack on the rack of the trailer as it has the entry door at the back. Can't put it on a roof rack as it is too heavy for me to do that kind of lifting.
So while it is a great little vehicle that is fun to ride they are large and bulky in size and even the folding ones are heavy. But if you have room for a hitch rack arrangement then it will work out. Most of them are not geared for good hill climbing and the ones that are sell for a fairly high price. Trikes in general tend to be more expensive than bicycles.
Of course there is another drawback to them and that is the width they take up on the street or bike trails, it makes it harder for cars to get around you which makes you more vulnerable. They don't work on the back country mountain bike or walking trails as they are too wide for the trails. Plus they are down low below the eye level of some car drivers so flags are an essential as is lot of reflectors and lights for night time. I was coming home one evening and my friend was out riding his trike. He was wearing his normal dark colored jacket and pants. The only reason I saw him when he entered an intersection wa because of the street light. When not under the street light then looking at the him on the trike from the side of it partly because he was so low to the ground he was pretty much invisible despite having LED head and tail lights. Of course that is true of most bicycles, you need to have reflectors in your spokes to be seen from the sides at night time.
Some of the more affluent nomads are towing second vehicles. For a much less costly means of getting around while leaving the rig parked, I recommend recumbent tricycles (my choice is the tadpole variant, two wheels in front and drive wheel rear; the other type is the delta with single wheel in front). Rolling down the road on your lawn chair is very enjoyable in addition to being great exercise (I dropped twenty+ pounds in the first two months after I bought my first one). The variety of examples is staggering, ranging from basic three speed chain drives to multi gear setups (my current has 97 options!!) with many brands being readily adapted to electric boost. Can't post a link yet, but Facebook has several pages devoted to the various activities trikers ge up to. Really hope this concept grabs many of us and adds enormous enjoyment to our lifestyle.
