SchwinnMeridian Full Size Adult Tricycle 26 wheel size Bike Trike

I like the sturdiness of this bike. We tighten all screws and check the chain and brakes each week. It has a tendency to become quite noisy (rattles and clicks). Hence the weekly maintenance. When pedalling on an rise-up in pavement the pedal slips. I get some speed up before hand and that stops the slippage almost every time. It won't fit into our RAV 4. You'd need a pick-up truck to move it, or take it apart to put into a smaller vehicle. I still like the bike.

And as such, it does NOT ride like a bike. You're going to use some of the same mechanics, but there's an entirely different geometry and balance going on here, and please remember that. I did not!This trike assembles easily enough, it's sturdy and durable, and it rides smooth. I use it to haul 2 bags of groceries about a mile, and it works wonderfully!

Es un excelente artículo, w de armar y muy cómoda, fue una excelente compra

c’est beau mais les frein étaient brisés j’ai acheter des nouvelles quimon couter 120 $et c’est difficile à montermais j’aime faire le vélo

This is a great bike, but you need to understand what you are buying. It is very well built for the price, arrives mostly assembled and needs little time or tooling to complete assembly. If you aren't confident assembling bikes, adjusting the brakes, etc then taking it to the local bike shop would probably be a good idea. I found it quite easy to put together, needs just a wrench set, Allen key set, pliers and a bike pump.The only major fault with the bike is that it is single speed geared. Despite being an Aluminium frame it is a pretty heavy bike, and being designed for cargo and likely targeted at weaker riders I am actually very surprised they don't offer a version with multi-speed gearing. Only one rear wheel is driven so there is no expensive differential/transmission gearbox which would probably make the bike cost twice as much or more. If there was a geared option (even just derailleur with no differential) I would have given it five stars. The lack of gearing is a pretty big limitation if you aren't using it on mostly flat ground.I've mostly got around the lack of gearing by adding a front-wheel electric hub motor. This works very well with the bike and makes it vastly more pleasant to commute with and especially when lugging the groceries up the hills around here. The fork drop-outs are nice and tough, I feared stripping them with the hub motor and purchased a torque bracket kit, but it turned out to be unnecessary (so far at least). But... my hub motor is only 250 watts, basically as strong as I am peddling moderately hard, which works out pretty well. A 1 kW hub motor might be a different story. This is not a bike you want to drive very fast anyway. Being a non-leaning delta configuration trike with a fairly high centre of gravity you *will* tip it if you take corners too fast without leaning. Much above 25 km/hr it becomes basically impossible to keep up peddling because of the medium fixed gear ratio, which honestly is pretty much a safety feature because taking a corner that fast without extreme leaning will flip it over and hurt you. This is a cruiser bike for leisurely trips, fast gears are probably not required, but lower gearing for hill climbing would be very desirable.Otherwise it is a comfortable, sturdy bike, made from pretty good quality parts for the price. It was certainly cost optimised to hit a price point, but the cost/value trade-offs are quite reasonable. The 26" tires are nice and wide for heavy loads and a smooth ride, they do have standard tubes (which might benefit from a little slime/sealant or better valve cores, I lose about 10 psi a month). The rims are aluminium alloy and the spokes are stainless, not sure about the glands I assume they are brass or stainless? Unlike many other cheap Chinese bike wheels they have bands to prevent glands rubbing on the tube inside the rims and the wheels themselves are true and tight when they arrive. The seat is large and comfortable, the adjustment range offered in the seat and handle bars is pretty wide and should fit a large range of different sized humans. It is a large bike, 26" after all, but it is also long and moderately wide and heavy so smaller people might find it a challenge. I'm a 1.85 metre 100 kg male human and it works well for me. The rear fenders do indeed attach only on the "inside", which means the can vibrate and even rub on the wheels if you don't install them correctly. I found they lined up pretty well with minimal fiddling as long as you tightened the three fasteners up properly. You can add a little bit of biasing by bending the struts slightly if needed - I did not need this to prevent rubbing but did it to make them well centred aesthetically. The rear axle and its bearings looks like they might have skimped a little here, it hasn't failed yet, but it might eventually need some work.I've added a computer, bell, electric lighting (front, rear and wheels) and a front basket to mine. All the creature comforts, especially for riding at night which I do a lot of. Combined with the electric assist hub motor it is now a very nice ride indeed. Schwinn please make a multi-speed version! Without it the bike is kind of a terrible experience in hilly terrain. (It is fine on flat ground though.) Better yet someone please make an after-market gearbox for it?! The shaft on the coaster sprocket/transfer idler is longer than the standard hubs (because it doubles as an attachment for the rear axle assembly) so all the after-market gearboxes I've looked at don't work for it without modification; it would require a custom axle 25-50 mm longer than normal or some changes to the chains and frame to mount a standard hub gearbox elsewhere. I am kinda tempted to build this myself at some point, because it is really the only thing that stops this bike from being truly excellent.