Velo-city

Bicycles and More

• Overview
• City Bikes
• Folding Bikes
• Cargo Cycles
• Child Carriers
• Recumbents
• Special Needs
• Trikes
• Adult Trikes
• Folding Trikes
• Industrial Trikes
• Comfort Trikes
• Recumbent Trikes
• T-Bikes
• Carrier Trikes
• Custom / Special-Purpose
• Cabin Cycles
• Velomobiles
• Tandems
• Sociables
• Quadricycles
• Pedelecs & E-Bikes

Trikes

Good Things Come in Three


Three's Company: trikes enable personal mobility for adults not comfortable on bicycles (Photo by the author)

A 3-wheeled design offers many advantages over a standard 2 wheel bicycle, most obviously, greatly improved stability due to the third wheel.

Trikes provide human powered mobility to adults who never learned to ride a bike as a child or as they get older are nervous riding a bicycle. Trikes are also very suited to physically-challenged persons with co-ordination issues or problems keeping their balance.

Adult Trikes


Golden Years: Janet on a Torker Tristar (Photo: Zanshin Art on flickr)

Adults, especially the elderly and those who may have not learned to ride a bicycle as a child, will greatly benefit from the use of a trike over a bicycle.

Perhaps the most common of all trikes, shopping trikes are perfect for adults and seniors in maintaining an independent, healthy lifestyle who do not wish to be dependent on care-givers to run errands and carry grocercies.



Folding Trikes


Fold Up: a Worksman Port-O-Trike has a folding frame to use less storage space (Photo: kittyz202 on flickr)

Folding trikes also exist. See the Folding Bikes page of this website for details.



Industrial Trikes


(Photo: Tony Crider on flickr)

For human-powered and electrically assisted tricycles that can carry cargo, see the cargo cycles page including the section on triporteurs.



Comfort Trikes


Comforting Grip: comfort trikes are ideal for senior citizens and active elderly (Photo: woodleywonderworks on flickr)

Following the emergence of comfort city bicycles, the emergence of comfort trikes was just a question of time.

High-end comfort trikes are also available in two passenger configurations. See the comfort trike section on the tandems page.



Recumbent Trikes


No Hands: the modular foot-steered FlevoTrike can carry children or cargo at rear (Photo: ligfiets.net)

Please see the Recumbents page of this website for recumbent trikes.



T-Bikes


To a 'T': T-bikes are an alternative to conventional adult trikes (Photo: ebay.de user sanitaets_discount)

This section is under development.



Carrier Trikes


Hands Full: the Winther Kangaroo can carry up to two young children up front (Photo: cesarastudillo on flickr)

For human-powered and electrically-assisted tricycles that can carry passengers, see the child carriers page.



Custom / Special-Purpose Trikes


(Photo: karlos of syston on flick)

This section is under development.



Keywords

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