Classic Bike Guide

Triking Type 4

I HAVE TO CONFESS, I LOVE TRIKINGS. AS A BOY I USED to play cricket occasionally in the village where the designer and creator of Triking, Tony Divey, lived. On the way up the hill after too many sandwiches to console a poor innings I would see him tinkering with this intriguing machine, and being into my cars and bikes, would always pedal slowly, taking it all in. Is it a car with one less wheel or a bike with too many wheels?

A few years ago I had the pleasure and privilege to have a go in the latest Triking, then the Type 3, with current boss, Alan

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