Stranded
I'm currently at a bike shop in Lexington, Kentucky. My Dual-Drive hub is shot. The bike shop called SRAM, who told them that the Dual Drive hub is not spec'd for loaded touring, which makes me wonder why the hell they spec'd it for their touring trike.
An angel named Bernie stopped when he saw me by the side of the road, and I rode to his mother-in-law's house a few hundreds yards away. Then he brought a pickup truck over and drove me and the trike to the bike shop in Lexington, about 45 minutes away.
I asked Johannes at Northeast Recumbents about the Dual Drive when I bought it, and told him what my plans were for the trike & trailer. He told me the Dual Drives hold up fine, and I was assuming that Greenspeed wouldn't spec a vital part without being sure that it was suited for the task.
So: I've got a busted hub here, about 5,000 miles left to go, and absolutely no assurances that this won't happen every 700 miles if I replace the hub with another Dual Drive.
So, I've got calls and e-mails in to Johannes and Greenspeed...Johannes is in New Jersey, but Greenspeed is in Australia, so I'm basically stuck until I can get the dealer or the manufacturer to step up to the plate.
Time, and probably money, that I don't have to spend.
Updates later, as warranted.
