The Right Ultralight Trike for You

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CHAD BASTIAN: Hi, this is Chad Bastian, welcome to Expert Village. We're here to talk about the trike buggy and PPG triking with paragliders. Okay, in this segment, we're going to be talking about choosing a PPG trike and why I developed the trike buggy. So, many people are afraid of powered paragliding because they have to carry this seventy pound thing on their back. Maybe they don't have a good back or they just don't even want to risk their ankles and knees. So, now they have a way, they can just sit down and fasten themselves in, set up the wing, and take off into flight. You never have to carry the motor on your back. You don't risk your ankles and knees when you come into land because you have wheels. You can go as fast as you need to. Perhaps the most feared condition in all of powered paragliding is no wind. When you show up and you're trying to launch your paraglider in zero wind with a seventy pound throbbing motor on your back, it can get pretty dicey unless you're really good at it and you have a technique that works. Most people don't like that. They like a little bit of wind so they can kite the glider, turn around, and launch easily. But our smoothest time of day is right in the very early morning or in the evening when there's zero wind at all. With a trike, you can just bring the kite up, roll off, and this extra speed is never a problem. So, that's a real nice factor. One of the things unique to the trike buggy and it's on a couple of PPG trikes but this one makes it really simple to bring the glider up, these are A-assists. When the glider is back, it pulls the A's forward but as the glider comes up, it stops pulling the A's, it goes back to its regular trim. In fact, this goes slack by the time the glider comes all the way up. But when it's back like this, it accelerates the A's to help it bring overhead. The great thing about this is that instead of pushing up with your hands, we sometimes will push up more with the stronger hand or we're throttling with one hand so we tend to push more with that. We can be uneven with our arms but these two A-assists always push up exactly evenly just the right amount and bring the ring overhead. So, these are real benefit to someone especially with any kind of shoulder or just can't reach. It's really nice to just sit and let the wing come overhead with the help of these A-assists.

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