Tricycle facts for kids
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. 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.
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Images for kids
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Modern upright tricycle
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Stephan Farffler's hand-controlled three-wheeled wheelchair
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Girl riding a delta tricycle in 1952.
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Small folded delta trike parked in New York
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Delta layout Hase Spezialräder Kettwiesel
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Recumbent tadpole
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Racing handcycle
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Two kinds of tricycle rickshaw
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Spidertrike
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Industrial trike with storage box mounted between rear wheels
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High-mass counter-direction tricycle
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Children's tricycle
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Hand and foot trike
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See also
In Spanish: Triciclo para niños
