Tricycle
A tricycle is a vehicle with three wheels. It can be also called a trike. Tricycles can have pedals, an electric motor or a petrol engine.
Human powered
A child's tricycle is best known, but adult tricycles are becoming more common. The adult trikes will have a chain, gears and are recumbent (the feet are in front of the body). They come in two main styles: tadpole with two wheels up front and one in back and delta with two wheels in the back and one wheel in the front.[1] Almost always the front wheel or wheels steer the bike, and power goes to the back wheel or wheels.
Some trikes are fully faired (covered in a shell to cut wind resistance). These are called velomobiles.
Other trikes are built to carry cargo or passengers (also called a cycle rickshaw or pedicabs).
Motor driven
Motorcycles also come in three wheeled versions. Some people like them for better balance or more room.[2]
Tricycle Media
19th century tricycle used in Iran
An 19th-century tricycle in Paris, France
Girl riding a delta tricycle in 1952.
Small folded delta trike parked in New York
Recumbent tricycles on the road to Ladakh
A freight tricycle formerly operated by Twinings.
Delta layout Hase Spezialräder Kettwiesel
Q-Cycles Njunis in Tadpole design
Stefan Bäumann in seinem Handbike
Related pages
References
- ↑ "Tadpole or Delta". Jetrike. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
- ↑ "Why bikers make the switch". Buffalo Chips (Sturgis). Retrieved 5 January 2017.
