Ageing: Out and about on a bicycle made for three

Rickshaw-type trishaws are taking residents out of the nursing home and back to nature. It’s about Cycling Without Age, says Margaret Jennings.

Ageing: Out and about on a bicycle made for three

HOW would you like to be driven around in a comfortable “couch on wheels”, at an easy pace, taking in the sights and sounds of nature — whatever the weather — and enjoying the stimulation of outdoors and surrounding community?

The “couch” is actually a super-comfortable rickshaw — called a trioBike, or tri-shaw, to be more precise, which fits two adults to the front and cyclist to the back.

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