I think most of you know that I spent 15 years putting in a lot of time and effort creating and maintaining TadpoleRider.com. I had lots of good helpful information available on it. I am getting old so I made the decision to discontinue authoring it. I passed it on to another trike enthusiast. I made it very clear that I did not want to do away with what I had including the name, TadpoleRider. I am not going to get into naming names here but the guy who took over assured me that he would not do either. I gave him control much sooner than I had planned and really wanted to . The first thing he did was change the name followed by removing everything I ever posted. He even cut me off and out of the picture so that I could no longer access my own writings which I was trying to save. And there is nothing I can do about any of it. The sad part of the whole thing is that the triking community is the big loser because of what he has done. I feel sorry for anyone searching for articles that I wrote only to find his page … “Oops! That page can’t be found. It looks like nothing was found at this location. Maybe try a search?.” … And if you try a search it turns up zero results.

I don’t know or understand why he wants to do this … to deprive trikers all that had been written and published in the past. All that is available now is what little he has posted since he took it over. Yes, only what he has written is available.

TadpoleRider.com used to have very good internet search results/rankings which he inherited, but now I see that it has all changed. No search results at all now. I went several pages deep and nothing.

Lastly, I apologize to all the triking community. I certainly did not mean for this to happen. I am still posting trike articles on this blog, but I can not begin to make up for the 15 years that have been lost.

I am hopeful he will have a change of heart and mind and restore everything. Also I think it would greatly help bring back the search result rankings which he wants. Although I am not at all pleased with what has happened I do wish him well for the sake of the triking community.

There are some copies of articles available to view on the internet archives … the WayBack machine … articles were saved 93 times between August 6, 2018 and April 20, 2025. https://web.archive.org/web/20211201000000*/tadpolerider.com