Tadpole Trikes almost Rule

Posted by Dr. Yan Lyansky on Oct 20th 2021

My mom never learned to bike. After I started Downtube she wanted to ride, but she was old and worried about falling. I found huge training wheels for adults, but they didn't mount safely to our pre 2010 models. Eventually I bought her a tadpole trike. It was smooth, fast, sweet looking....but it was big, really big. It could never be transported, and it took up too much space in the garage. My mom rode it once and it sat for years.

The trike would have been awesome if it was smaller. The size made it a problem for storage and transport, essentially making it useless.