Initial ride impressions of the Hase Trigo
With winter closing in on us, we hurried to take some brief rides. These trikes have a front derailleur with three chain rings and an 8-speed cassette driving the right rear wheel. Grip-shifters for the front and rear derailleurs both have 8 stops, with the front derailleur requiring 2 or 3 clicks between chain-rings. There was apparently some technical reason for needing to use this grip shifter; it does work and doesn't require much time to get used to it. I did find it rather stiff, though. Other options include a differential so that both rear wheels can be driven (available to retrofit) and an over-seat steering variant called Trigo Up that has an 8-speed Shimano hub and a single front chainring. Both the underseat steered standard Trigo and the over-seat steered Trigo Up can be fitted with a Shimano Steps electric assist motor. The motor can be added later if the need arises. One of our first test-rides was with the Trigo tandemized to a Greenspeed Anura. T