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Since the dawn of motoring, so you cannot really accuse UK legislators of being quick off the mark. The preferential tax treatment of three wheelers led to them being a boom vehicle in the 10's and 20's with a tailing off starting in the 30's.

I've no idea if such is Italy's fault, but the situation was concreted by the third European directive on driving licences. However, there is a derogation available whereby as long as the driver is 21 or older (the absolute earliest you can get a full/unrestricted bike licence) and has a car licence, that will do. A country does need to activily adopt that derogation - so residents of Italy should be leaning on their Ministry of Transport (or whatever it is called) to adopt this. The UK has, and so has Sweden. Others may also, but I only know about these countries.

The most helpful definition in my eyes is to use, 'car bodied' and 'motorcycle bodied' when talking about trikes, and not to directly reference the controls.

The dealer is asking for that letter. Of course, the dealer was shot down by the Maryland MVA over two years ago, and has done nothing to date to address that. Nor did the deler tell me the car was illegal in Maryland. I'm seriously pissed and disappointed.

I don't really know anything about American consumer law but I do know that it is pretty strong. Do you have any redress against the dealer over this?

Martyn. Surely it is up to the manufacturers of "car bodied" reverse trikes to take this up with the EU (and for that matter the USA) regulation makers.

There are too many grey areas and a lack of uniformity in the current ruling if applied to vehicles like the M3W.

Personally whilst I don't like the moustache and the indicator light stems (solutions for both could have been designed better IMHO) I think the Australian regulators have set a pretty good precedent to follow.

You'd think so wouldn't you. But MMC did not seem unduly worried when the 3rd Directive was pointed out to them, shortly before implementation.

I do though think if your Transport Ministry is anything like ours, a concerted push from fellow Italian enthusiasts ought to get the derogation adopted. It's all there in the directive after all, so other than saying from date X and issuing a notice, not much actual work has to be done.

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I don't think though you should be using the term, 'reverse trike'. While the type with a single front wheel are less stable, they do exist, and there could be (ok, a bit far fetched I know) a Reliant Regal in Italy.

As the motorcycle riding population is aging, so are the legs, arms and back of the riders. The "trike" as we know it here in the US is typically one in front and two on the rear.

The trike market here is booooooming so big that I think within a couple more years trikes will probably make up about 20% of the adult market.

So here referring to a "reverse trike" is what we call the M3W's, Slingshot, Can Am Spyders etc. I know in the UK one front wheel three wheelers have been much more popular, but weren't they called just plain three wheelers? Trikes imply tricycles which brings to mind one front, two rear wheels.

I think the term reverse trike is here to stay, at least here in the US.

Interested in getting things right primarily. Only paid a deposit so far.

If it helps anyone - the two front wheel, one rear format in the bicycle world is called a tadpole trike. And yes, I have one of those too.

Ah yes, a tadpole. Two front flippers and a floppy tail.

That sounds like the M3W alright!

Tadpole? Sounds like it should be more related to an AH Frogeye...