OK, maybe you guys know the answer.

 

I know of the t-rex and the can-am spyder and a few others that are like them with the wide snowmobile type layout. However, on the way to work yesterday I saw a police officer riding a three wheeler that was very upright with two close set wheels up front. THe styling was very BMW-ish circa 2005 or so before they went to all the n-gon headlamps recently. Black and a graphite gray.

 

Closest thing I found were these suckers at the top of the page here http://www.powersportsmax.com/index.php/cPath/227

 

Anyone know what the heck he might have been driving? It was in the New brunswick area, in case he was actually on duty and someone knows what they are running that way.

 

It was odd, and it will annoy me until I figure out what it was.

http://www.piaggiousa.com/scooters.html#!s=home/fly-50-4v

the mp3 500 might have been it.

 

The big pic at the top here looks a lot like it. http://bikeglam.com/2011-piaggio-mp3-500-three-wheeler-motorcycle/

BIG differece between the Can-Am and the Piaggio

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Princeton University...

I am seeing more and more of those Can-Am trikes down here. The look is growing on me.

We have this cool chick around here that has a CanAm... She has it all decked out in leds and stuff. Looks sharp!

 

I am seeing more and more of those Can-Am trikes down here. The look is growing on me.

 

 

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I wouldn't consider a T-rex a motorcycle but they are sickkkkk. If I didn't ride bikes, I'd buy one.

Piaggio is cool. Havnt seen one yet. Like recessed said three wheelers are not bikes. They are in a category of their own

like this? Looks devised by a drunken motorcycle rider who had a good idea...

 

http://www.piaggious...!s=home/mp3-250

The t-rex def. is not a motorcycle. It is cool though. Some guy in town has a blue one and i think i remember seeing a cycle plate on the back. I think NJ still classifies it as a motorcycle. The Can-am spyder is pretty cool and they def. look sharp, but not worth the 20k price tag. I think there more dangerous then a 2-wheeler. People think their easier to ride, but they are 10x harder to handle. You loose so much of the riding experience on one too. After riding a cbr600rr i couldn't imagine getting on something that limits control, you need as much control over the bike you can get. You cant exactly dip around hazards on the road on a 3 wheeler with out feeling like your getting ripped off the trike. I always thought trikes were a step in the wrong direction. They really aren't much different then an atv since they moved the 2-wheels to the front. We have some pretty wild kids on Can-am's around here, and i saw a kid almost loose it going around a bend to quick. He was leaning far into the corner, and the trike was still pushing out of the corner. On a bike, a little counter steering would have corrected that. but on a trike, you just have to hope you can hold your line. I noticed they cut alot of corners to carry more speed, which is really dangerous.

Here is the one I always wanted!

 

 

I don't "get" those three wheelers... what is the allure? Is it people who don't want to learn how to ride a real motorcycle?

Collectors, people who are injured and can't ride a 2 wheeler for whatever reason. People like my wife that has Vertigo, etc., etc... A multitude of reasons... Or just for the helluv it... Most have already road 2 wheelers... So who knows why. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder as they say.

 

I don't "get" those three wheelers... what is the allure? Is it people who don't want to learn how to ride a real motorcycle?

 

 

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Yep, old police trike. Sweet... What the hell they use to call them? Icecream wagons or something?

 

Here is the one I always wanted!

 

 

 

 

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Or just for the helluv it

 

Good enough reason for me.

I don't "get" those three wheelers... what is the allure? Is it people who don't want to learn how to ride a real motorcycle?

 

I think it has something to do with that, I get what bhunted is saying, but every person I ever saw riding a Can-am looked reasonably healthy to me. Wanna be a cool biker dude? Don't want to learn how to actually ride? Come buy our new inverted trike thingee. I met a guy when I worked at a motorcycle shop who had a Can-am when they were new and "rare" couldn't ride a two wheeled motorcycle for shit.

 

 

Yep, old police trike. Sweet... What the hell they use to call them? Icecream wagons or something?

 

Icecream wagons

 

Come on ol' timer it's a 45 flathead Servi-car.

Bah.... Not the exact model name. I mean it's nickname... No matter..... Can't remember...

As far as the healthy thought, I'm sure it's a very small percentile of people that ride them, that never wanted or could ride a real bike. IMHO of course... You still don't see that many riding trikes compared to 2 wheelers..

 

 

I think it has something to do with that, I get what bhunted is saying, but every person I ever saw riding a Can-am looked reasonably healthy to me. Wanna be a cool biker dude? Don't want to learn how to actually ride? Come buy our new inverted trike thingee. I met a guy when I worked at a motorcycle shop who had a Can-am when they were new and "rare" couldn't ride a two wheeled motorcycle for shit.

 

 

 

 

Icecream wagons

 

Come on ol' timer it's a 45 flathead Servi-car.

those can ams are are snowmobiles with tires ,I dont consider them "motorcycles"