Reverse Trike Motorcycle Club

This International, Reverse Trike Club site is dedicated to all 3-wheel style Motorcycle / Trikes

with Two wheels in the Front, and One wheel in the Rear, commonly designated as 2F1R.

Depending on who is speaking and what part of the world you live in, this style trike is commonly referred to as a 2F1R motorcycle trike. Other terms I've heard of are a Backwards trike, Cabin Car, Cabin Scooter, Cycle Car, Motomobile, Scooter trike, T2F (Trike 2 Front Wheels), Tadpole style trike, Tricar, Y-Configuration trike, Y-Design trike, Y-Factor trike, and maybe there's a few others I haven't heard of yet. However, on this site WE prefer to call them RT's or 'Reverse Trikes', to differentiate them from what first comes to mind when most people hear the word 'trike', ie, a motorcycle that has one wheel in the front and two wheels in the rear commonly designated as IF2R.

Whether it's a Front Wheel Drive Trike (FWD), or Rear Wheel Drive Trike (RWD) doesn't really matter to us, as both designs have a good following these days. I hear there are some All Wheel Drive (AWD) designs being developed too, like the Riley XR3 for example. Most RT's use motorcycle engines as the motive force, but some use a car engine and/or transmission, diesel engine, electric motor, fuel cell, or some combination thereof including some newer series Hybrid designs such as the Evaro. So I expect to embrace all possible design criteria's as we're made aware of them, including tilting trikes which are especially interesting designs as you will see when you look over the site.

I'm also very interested in any new all-electric, or plug-in electric 'PEI' trikes, and I have a page specifically for those. The Ale which was originally designed using a Honda Civic FWD drive-train, has now been converted to a FWD electric drive-train and is called the Evaro. Which goes to show that our 2F1R trike designs should be light enough and efficient for an electric vehicle where the range, overall size, aerodynamics, good handling characteristics, and initial cost will all be important factors in the design criteria to deliver acceptable performance. We have a few all electric designs listed on the site now, and some other electric technology posted on various pages as well.

So it could be a high performance hot-rod trike; it could be fuel efficient and slow as far as the acceleration performance is measured; a hybrid design; or an all electric vehicle; but the main goal of this site is to promote this unique 2F1R trike design to the general public as a viable means of day to day transportation, or for weekend recreation. After all, this style trike has been around since at least the very popular Morgan 2F1R trikes from the 1930's. And I've seen a few less popular designs that were made even earlier than that. While there are specific handling characteristics with the RT design, there's considerable difference between FWD and RWD in the off line traction, cornering, and braking capabilities. Still, all RT owners I've talked to agree that either of these styles handle much better than the standard 1F2R trike designs they may of ridden in the past.

We don't aim to be a fancy website and dazzle you with a bunch of Java, Flash, or fancy html code. We just try to be the best resource for information on the current RT designs available, designs being worked on, or ones in the conceptual stage. Used reverse trikes for sale; parts to fit trikes that could be useful for our particular design; service providers to build trikes for us; design trikes for us; whatever and whoever that has something to offer for the Reverse Trike owners, you're all welcome. But we only specialize in Reverse Trike designs, or technology specifically adaptable to an RT product. Also, we lean heavily in favor of supporting manufacturers, and not so much the home builder! However, I do maintain an extensive database of images of home built RT's on the Paid Member DVD, and I have a page with links to the better homebuilts that I've aware of.

HPV, HEPV, or NEV Trike Designs - (sorted alphabetically)

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Homebuilt Trikes - (not sorted)

Trike Video Collection

Design Database, Images and Members Trikes - (sorted alphabetically)

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Mission Statement as of 9/10

Paid Membership (Member DVD available with trike files, images and videos)

Official Reverse Trike Discussion Group on Yahoo.com associated with this site (started 8/06)

Rally Page (thoughts on a possible annual rally for RT owners)

Advantages of the Reverse Trike Design

Technical Papers (written in 1982)

Electric Reverse Trike conversion possibilities

Crossover Technology (technology from other vehicles that could be used on RT's)

Licensing and Regulations by State (plus insurance providers for RT's)

Motorcycling Truth (author unknown)

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Official Reverse Trike Radio Show on Blog Talk Radio (started 3/28/08 - weekly shows preferably at 9:30AM Friday can be scheduled depending on interest)

Besides the Reverse Trike Club, I'm also the owner of the KZ1300 USA Club at kz1300.com - and this is the 1984 model, 1300cc water cooled, inline 6-cylinder Kawasaki Voyager motorcycle I rode for 20+ years. Click on the thumbnails to view larger images -

Disclaimer:

We don't recommend and we're not affiliated with any particular product or brand, or even suggest that anyone buy one of the vehicles shown on this site. The idea to purchase or ride one of these trikes is totally up to your discretion. This is a whole different product in relation to a regular motorcycle, and it's certainly not going to be suited to some riders tastes, or abilities. If you decide to buy a vehicle from any person or company listed on this site, it's completely up to you to follow due diligence in your transaction. We're reporting the 'news' so to speak about these trikes, providing information relative to reverse trikes to the best of our ability, and that's pretty much it. We don't have personal knowledge of any person or companies ability to make or deliver any products shown on this site. I'm merely posting secondhand information provided to me by other people, for the most part whom I've never personally met or talked to face to face, but rather via email or the telephone. david@reversetrike.com