I’m a self-confessed trike virgin, but I am looking forward to road testing this TourOz Trike which arrives tomorrow. Is...
Lithuanian start-up AKO has applied for a patent for an electric-powered vehicle somewhere between a motorcycle, trike and a car...
Lithuanian start-up AKO is now testing its electric-powered tilting trike prototype which is somewhere between a motorcycle, trike, car and plane. Like the Piaggio and Yamaha leaning scooters, the Yamaha Niken leaning motorcycle and the non-leaning Can-Am Spyder roadster, it has two wheels up front and a single wheel at the...
Confusion about whether a three-wheeler is a trike, roadster or a three-wheel car seem to have been further confounded by...
Motorcycle sales continue to spiral down around the world because many riders are big-bike snobs, while the industry has failed...
Why would anyone think this Marabese Blade with three in-line wheels is a good thing for motorcycles? The Marabese Blade is the work of the family owned Luciano Marabese design company that also designed the Piaggio MP3 scooter with two side-by-side front wheels. The company has also designed bikes for...
Boom Trike is getting two new powerplants so former Ulysses Club magazine editor and long-time trike tester Ian Parks checked...
Canadian three-wheel sportier company Can Am is expanding its line-up for 2015 with a feet-forward muscle cruiser with an exposed...
Trikes, roadsters and other three-wheelers are classified as motorcycles, but are they permitted to park in motorcycle parking bays that are often smaller than the footprint of the three-wheeler? The issue was raised by an Adelaide rider who took the above photograph of a Can-Am Spyder taking up two motorcycle...
If you ever wanted a three-wheeled roadster but couldn’t afford the Can-Am Spyder, there is now the Ryker which will...
Can-Am Australia has confirmed that the new Ryker three-wheeler roadster will arrive early next year at substantially less than the...
https://youtu.be/lxT4PKH0GOY An Australian “record” of 71 Can-Am Spyder three-wheeler roadsters at a one-day event has been set at a little pub at Dugandan on the outskirts of Boonah in south-east Queensland. The number of riders and pillions who turned up for the Can-Am Spyder Olympics on August 27 surprised organisers Mike and...
https://youtu.be/lxT4PKH0GOY An Australian “record” of 71 Can-Am Spyder three-wheeler roadsters at a one-day event has been set at a little pub...
The 2015 Can-Am Spyder F3 will be a cruiser-style three-wheel roadster with forward controls. Made by made by Canadian company...
The sporty Can-Am Spyder F3, with its feet-forward muscle cruiser stance and exposed 1330cc three-cylinder engine, now comes in bagger versions. The Spyder F3-T and F3 Limited baggers are joined by the F3-S and a limited number of triple-black F3-S Special Series models. For 2016, the Spyder F3 roadster also...
The Can-Am Spyder F3-S Special Series in Triple Black is the first model unveiled from the 2016 model line-up. It...
The 2013 model Can-Am Spyder three-wheel roadster will be recalled globally after concerns over the vehicle bursting into flames. Bombardier...
Can-Am has celebrated 10 years of the Spyder with a party for nearly 3000 Spyder owners, including 18 from Australia, and the launch of its 10th anniversary gold edition models. The 10th anniversary party in Canada at the weekend was the single biggest gathering of Spyder owners in the history...
Among the 2020 line-up of Can-Am Spyder and Ryker roadsters unveiled last week is a range of electric two- and...
Yamaha’s leaning three-wheeler Niken is one crazy bike and now a custom version has won the Craziest Bike award at...
If four wheels move the body and two wheels move the soul, what do three wheels do? Purist motorcycle riders don’t consider three wheelers to be motorcycles at all. However, the authorities do, so you’ll still need a motorcycle licence to ride one in most countries. In places such as...
The three-wheeled roadster is a rare sighting on the road, but when this extended family goes for a ride, there...
Harley-Davidson is expected to release a slammed and cut-down version of its Tri-Glide trike next month, called the Freewheeler. The...
A conversion kit that turns a Harley-Davidson V-Rod into a “reverse trike” with two wheels in the front like a Can-Am Spyder roadster is coming to market next year. The Scorpion Trikes V-Rod kit will cost about $5000 when it becomes available early next year and owners will also have...
Harley-Davidson Australia have recalled 363 trikes over an issue where a rear brake could suddenly activate. The official recall notice, issued...
The long wait for Harley-Davidson trikes, including the new hot-rod Freewheeler (pictured above), is finally over for Australian riders. The...
The long wait for Harley-Davidson trikes in Australia, including the new hot-rod Freewheeler, could soon be over. Harley-Davidson Australia and New Zealand boss Nigel Keough says the lengthy delay has been getting Australian Design Rule compliance. “Australia has a unique set of compliance issues and we’ve been working through them for several...
Honda has been granted a patent for a leaning trike possibly powered by the Goldwing six-cylinder engine, a V-twin or...
Honda has filed patent diagrams for a leaning three-wheeler with two front wheels. While the company has never made three-wheeler...
Indian Motorcycle is so busy meeting demand for its range of Chief, Roadmaster and Scout models, it hasn’t done anything about a trike … yet! That hasn’t stopped aftermarket trike companies developing trikes based on the Chief range and now the Roadmaster. We saw several Chief-based trike conversions at the...
Indian Motorcycle plans to release a new model on Thursday March 3, 2016, that is tipped to be called the Springfield in...
These Tri Pod cars are registered as a motorcycle in a motorcycle category vehicle (L cat), have a motorcycle engine,...
Kawasaki seems to be following Yamaha and Honda in developing a leaning three-wheeler with its latest patent application in the US. Yamaha already has the Tricity leaning three-wheeler scooter and Niken motorcycle as well as patent plans for more leaning trikes with two front wheels including a VMax! Honda has...
Just about every dog loves to dangle its tongue in the wind and Tex the Toowoomba trike-riding dog is no...
Forget about Spiderman, watch out for Spyder women as the roadster company introduces a mentorship program to get more women...
Piaggio has filed a patent for a reverse leaning three-wheeler with the two wheels at the back rather than the front. Traditional three-wheelers or trikes have the wheels at the back, but they don’t lean. In 2006, the Italian company introduced the MP3 scooter which was the world’s first leaning...
Polaris Slingshot technically moves the company into motorcycles. The company’s first road-going three-wheeler has a steering wheel, seatbelt and floor-mounted five-speed transmission...
Chances of the three-wheeler Polaris Slingshot coming to Australia are fairly slim, despite the company shifting up a gear with...
Returned rider Alan Maxwell has a familiar history with motorcycles, but has ended up triking with a family of trikes and even a trike travel business! (Readers are invited to tell us about their bike history by sending their details via email.) Country biker When Alan married Johanna, he owned three...
After five years of development, Minnesota handyman and inventor Norm Kokes is ready to go into production with his reverse...
The entry level three-wheeled Can-Am Ryker is proving a “hit” with women, says Can-Am On-Road PR Brian Manning. While women...
An online petition is seeking to allow car drivers with a full licence to ride a trike without needing a motorcycle licence, much like some states allow drivers to ride 50cc scooters. The petition, started by BRP who make the Can-Am Spyder three-wheeler roadster, has so far attracted more than...
While Can-Am has dropped the base model RS and RSS three-wheel Spyder roadsters from their 2017 line-up, the F3 range has...
Can-Am which makes three-wheeler “roadster” Spyder and Ryker motorcycles has been aiming its product and promotions toward women over the...
The growing demand for trikes has yielded some interesting conversion kits such as this new one from Tilting Motor Works that converts most Harley-Davidsons into a reverse trike with two wheels up front. The base unit costs about $US10,000 while a roll-over stabiliser increases the price to $US13,000. The Tilting...
Harley-Davidson has added traction control to its 2019 Trikes and may soon have to add the safety feature to its...
Ural Australia will import the Russian Ural AIR outfit which includes a DJI Spark drone and a special discrete and...
The iconic boxer heads sticking out the side are missing on the first electric sidecar prototype from Ural Motorcycles. Ural Electric Prototype is just the first development phase and there is no word on when — or if — the finished product will come to market. The Russian company estimates it...
The 2017 range of Ural sidecars have received some electronic upgrades, cosmetic styling improvements and some striking new colours including...
Yamaha has filed yet another patent that shows yet again that they lean toward leaning trikes, this time with a...
Imagine a Yamaha VMax with 147.2kW of power and 166.8Nm of torque packed into a leaning three-wheeler motorcycle with two front wheels. That’s Yamaha’s vision of the future as they have applied for a patent for the design. The filing comes as Yamaha is launching its Niken leaning three-wheeler based...
Yamaha will this year launch its Niken leaning three-wheeler motorcycle based on the MT-09 and follow up with a learner...
Yamaha has released a video explaining a little more of the Niken three-wheeler it will release in 2019. We’re not...