David,

I appreciate the photos and the idea, but I have come to grips with
levering myself up from the seat with the hand grips and am having no
problems there.

By the way, I'll be up to Inverness to ride the Withlacoochee State
Trail on the Saturday and Sunday of Memorial Day weekend the end of
May. We'll be leaving from the Central Motel about 9:30 on each day.
Will ride north one day, and south the next, just to enjoy the scenery.

If you or any of the others on the board are around, look for the
yellow Trail, with the John Deere logos on it...that'll be me.

Tractor Tom in Okeechobee


--- In TeamCatrike@yahoogroups.com, "David" <david.vonStein@...> wrote:
>
> Tom, I just put a couple of pictures in the photos area under
> Devious56 that might help you. On the front of the green Expedition
> is a little device we have put together that we call an Elder Assist,
> and is nothing more than a quill type bicycle stem and a piece of cut
> down handlebar. The stem is a 1 inch one that goes into the frame,
> and the beauty of this is that you make it what ever size you want
> depending on the stem that you buy.
>
> Hope this helps you a bit,
> David Von Stein
> Middleburg, Florida
>
> --- In TeamCatrike@yahoogroups.com, "Tom Timmons" <ttimmons@> wrote:
> >
> > Another point, at least for this overweight 53 year old man, is
> > getting in and out of the seat (especially after a 20 mile ride!)
> > It's a long way up to my normal 6'-4" stance from a seat that sits
> > about 3" off the pavement. Initially I would grasp the top of the
> > tires and kind of lever myself up. Now I have found that gabbing the
> > brakes, and pushing myself up off the top of the hand grips works the
> > best.
>
> > Tractor Tom in Okeechobee, FL
> >
>