Contrary to popular belief, three-wheeled bicycles are not just for kids. While training wheels are an incredibly useful addition to bikes for little ones while they’re learning to transition into two-wheeled cycling – we’re here to pose a controversial question. Is the transition from three-wheeled to two-wheeled biking even necessary? Should we stick to thrice the wheeled power?
Rather akin to the arbitrary primary school achievement of gaining a ‘pen licence’, marking one’s official transition from scrappy writing to joined-up cursive, who’s to say we ever really needed to graduate to what is essentially an unnecessarily difficult version of the very same thing? Pencils allow us to make neat, easily erasable mistakes. Similarly, tricycles allow us to retain balance and stability and remain safe while reducing our carbon footprint.
