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Q: What is a Trikke Cambering Vehicle?
A: Trikke 3-wheeled cambering vehicle is a human powered 3-wheeled vehicle that has no mechanical drive train. It's articulated frame can lean into turns while keeping all three wheels in contact with the ground. The 3-wheeled stance provides riders with excellent stability at all speeds including a dead stop and is a marked improvement in balance, control and stability over traditional machines like scooters, skateboards, inline skates and even bikes. What really sets this new machine apart is its novel method of propulsion. With the exception of inline skates, traditional machines have a mechanical drivetrain (chain or belt drive) or require that you kick off of the pavement like scooters and skateboards to propel them. Despite the fact that a cambering vehicle has no drive train, a rider can propel it indefinitely with an extraordinary level of efficiency without touching the ground. Though designs for three wheeled cambering vehicles of all kinds date back nearly 100 years, patented Trikke cambering products are the first ever cambering vehicle to be produced and distributed world wide.

Q: What propels a cambering vehicle?
A: A coordinated technique of simultaneously leaning and turning a cambering vehicle in the same direction is the figurative power plant of a cambering vehicle. In short, a rider travels down a serpentine path much like a skier slaloming down a hill. Unlike a skier, these turns actually propel a cambering vehicle rather than control its downhill speed, though that can also be achieved on a cambering vehicle. Breaking it down, when the rider enters a left hand turn he or she also rocks the handlebars to the left. Advanced riders add many more body movements primarily outward kicks like inline skating and the throwing of upper body weight into the direction of the turn to dramatically increase speed and acceleration.