The Trio’s handling is familiarly motorcycle-ish, but two wheels up front, tracking independently of one another, provides foreign feedback through the handlebars.“Although the Trio is doing all the right things when you countersteer, the way the handlebar turns into the corner is initially disconcerting, giving an experienced motorcyclist contradictory sensations,” says Brasfield. In fact, the Trio is perfectly comfortable scraping its floorboards while rounding corners. Like the Piaggio MP3 we brought along, the most important aspect of the Trio’s design is its ability to lean. “The Trio delivers motorcycle-like handling on a full-sized converted motorcycle.” “I find it amazing that an individual’s creative mind can come up with such a functional setup where the major manufacturers haven’t,” says editor Evans Brasfield. Both the nose and fenders are perfectly color-matched to the original H-D paint. The Trio’s cosmetic grill is from the mind of celebrated motorcycle designer, Glynn Kerr.
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The Trio conversion costs $9,995 plus installation – the cost of which is model-dependent, i.e., Softail vs.
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Perfecting his design since Mighell is now busy enlisting dealerships to install and service his unique reverse-trike kit. The 1197cc V-Max V-4 propelled Mighell to 132.245 mph, breaking the land speed record for three-wheeled motorcycles by more than 10 mph. In 2012, Mighell took to the salt of Bonneville with a slightly more powerful version of his original test mule. An engineer and motorcyclist, Mighell put metal to grinder a handful of years ago and transformed an inexpensive Honda Rebel into a prototype leaning tricycle. The TMW Trio is the brainchild of Bob Mighell. The Tilting Motor Works Trio is constructed for full-size Harleys: Road King, Road Glide, Street Glide, Electra Glide, Softails, Dynas, Sportsters, V-Rods, and Hondas: Gold Wing, Valkyrie, F6B. And, yes, Piaggio’s MP3 has been available since 2006, and Yamaha’s Tricity was released last year in Europe (a model for which Yamaha is being sued by Piaggio for copyright infringement ), but these are scooters. Yes, Honda displayed the leaning, reverse-trike Neowing at last year’s Tokyo Motor Show, but it’s only a prototype. At the vanguard of the full-size tilting trike revolution is a lone engineer in a garage somewhere in Snohomish, WA. Well, guess what? The leaning reverse trike charge isn’t being led or financed by BRP or H-D and their incredibly deep pockets. Later that same year it came to light that Harley-Davidson had been developing a similar tilting three-wheeler ( the Penster ) for years before scrapping the project and moving in a more traditional-trike direction with the Tri-Glide and recently introduced Freewheeler. Photos by: RWRIGHTPIX Video by: Sean Matic, Richard Wrightįive years ago this month MO reported that Bombardier Recreational Products had filed a patent as far back as 2009 for a control system that’d allow the Can-Am Spyder to lean.
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