Trikke For Outdoor Adventure And Fitness

Excerpt from: " Trikke World Magazine's" interview with Jack Carter, son of President Jimmy Carter.

"Jack Carter: I would guess four years ago, maybe longer. I was searching the web for a push scooter that would hold a couple hundred pounds, as opposed to the ones that hold 80 or 100 pounds. In the course of looking, I ran across the Trikke. It looked like a great cross training deal, so I bought one. I tried it for about two or three weeks and couldn't get it to go anywhere, so I laid off of it. I got back on it later on, did a little better. Then my son-in-law from Australia came over to my house, got on it and all of a sudden, he was running rings around me. That got me motivated. Now I'm pretty decent with it.

TWM: How often do you go trikking?

JC: During the summer I go for 6-8 miles maybe a couple times a week.

TWM: Is it true that you're mainly a runner like your father?

JC: Dad had to quit running at eighty, but I'm not there yet.

TWM: How did you introduce your parents to the Trikke?

JC: I was looking around for someone in the Plains (Georgia) area and I found Lisa Perkins of Atlanta Trikke. I called her up and said that I wanted to get my parents Trikkes because I was convinced [about its benefits]. I get roughly 90% of my running heart rate riding Trikkes. And there's very little impact and it works the whole body--all the things Trikke says it does, I found to be true. And I thought Mom and Dad might like them, particularly because Plains doesn't have an awful lot of hills. That was Christmas two years ago. Lisa and her husband took [two T-8's] to the Carter Center and they showed Mom and Dad how to ride them.

TWM: And now?

JC: Every morning they ride 50 laps around the tennis court and they take them out in Plains and ride around the streets there. I've visited then since then and ridden around with them and showed some of the other family members how to do it."