Can a Four Wheel Bike Tip Over? The Truth About a Quadricycle & It's Stability!

Can I tip over a four-wheel e-bike? Let's stick around to find out. Hey everyone, I'm Dustin. I'm nearly 20 years experienced in the bike and e-bike industry, and today I'm going to see if I can tip over a four-wheel e-bike. All right, this is the AnyTerrain Four Wheel e-bike or Quadricycle. This thing is really cool, a lot of fun. It's a 750-watt rear-mount motor. You can see this big cargo basket back here as well. Now, a lot of people are turning to three-wheel e-bikes and four-wheel e-bikes because of balance issues. 

You can no longer balance the two wheels on your own. You just want to sit down and have the bike do the balancing for you. Now, a big concern with many riders looking to get a tricycle is the tipping factor, right? Now, the reality of a two-wheel bike, a four-wheel bike, or a three-wheel bike is that there's always a risk of falling over, right? Now, if you learn to properly manage your weight, in terms of how you lean and steer, and also manage your speed appropriately, tipping should not be a concern, but it may take a little bit of getting used to. Now, in the case of riders who maybe just don't trust three-wheeled bikes, a four-wheeled bike could be an option. The AnyTerrain is really cool, really balanced. Now, can this tip over? Well, let's go ahead and get into it. Now, if you're wondering, I'm not going to physically tip it over, but I'm going to show you how it could tip over. All right. This has a reverse function as well, which is really nice.

OK, so let's give you a straight-on view here. OK, so what I want to show you is that these front tires have this tilting steering mechanism. So if the back wheel comes up, the front tires are going to lean. Which is going to help keep it balanced around turns. You can see how both tires stay on the ground when it leans. In the case of a three-wheel bike, if you start tipping this way, it's going to be a little bit harder to bring it back. But in this case, you're still going to have two wheels on the front here down on the ground, so it helps with the balance.

Now, you do need to correct your body weight transfer to bring the wheel that comes up down. But again, this helps to keep it balanced. All right. So, in order to tip, let me actually turn this around here. Okay. All right. Now, if you see me from the back, if I do start shifting aggressively, my body weight, I can pick up the rear wheels, right? But what you can't see is that both wheels in the front are still down on the ground. So the benefit of that is just because one wheel comes up, you still have two wheels down in the front contacting the pavement. So in essence, you're still going to have three wheels down on the ground, even if you just pop up one, right? So on a tricycle, if you were to create that same scenario and you bring up your rear wheel, well, now you've only got two out of the three wheels down versus three out of the four wheels down, right? So more rubber on the road is never a bad thing.

It's going to keep it more balanced. Also, you can see we have four-inch wide tires here, which again, more rubber on the road keeps it more balanced and stuck to the pavement. All right. So I'm going to go ahead and make some loops here and just show you. Now, again, when I turn pretty aggressively because you can see one of the wheels come up with very aggressive turning, but with the front end, how it leans, the two front wheels stay down really nicely. The other thing, too, is we actually have two wheels in the front that are smaller versus the back, bigger wheels. So the bike is angled slightly forward, which keeps more downward pressure on these two front wheels, which keeps it really balanced. Now, again, with a three-wheel bike and a four-wheel bike, there are certain tendencies you'll want to develop with how you kind of counter-lean and counter-steer to keep the wheels down, and also how you manage your speed. But tipping this four-wheeler is, I mean, you'd have to really want to do it for it to happen, right? Actually, much harder to tip this than most conventional trikes. And I say most because we make some other trikes you can see here with a longer geometry. Those are very stable as well. So, again, you're not really going to make turns this aggressively, right? Normally, your turns are going to be more like that. Now you can see I'll come around this corner here. So again, if I'm taking normal corners, absolutely no tipping risk whatsoever. So, let me pull over here.

All right. Can I tip over a four-wheel e-bike? Yes, of course. Right. It's just like a car. Can a car tip over? Yes. But another thing I forgot to mention is we have a rear differential here as well that is going to power both of the rear wheels. So we're creating with the ability of both wheels to have power. In a situation where one lifts off, you can have power to the other wheel and pedal out of the situation you're in if one wheel's off the ground, right? So, again, four wheels on the ground, more traction, the tilting steering, the rear differential, all of that adds to this being ultra stable. Can you tip it? Yes. You don't want to come to terms with flying at crazy miles per hour. It's just like a car, quite honestly, right? You can't take turns at super high speed unless you have really high-end suspensions or sports cars. You've got to take care, you've got to manage your speed.

Four-wheel and three-wheel e-bikes are different than two-wheel e-bikes in terms of how you manage corners and things like that. Any other questions at all or comments, please put them below or reach out to us at theteam@sixthreezero.com or call us at 310-982-2877. Also, we offer a 30-day test ride of your e-bike policy. If you don't love it in the first 30 days, send it back. No questions asked, no money out of your pocket. In addition to that, we're going to warranty everything for one year. Anything goes wrong in the first year, we take care of it, parts and labor. And if you want to come for a test ride here in beautiful, sunny California, we are at 1046 Calle Rocodo, Unit K in San Clemente. We've got all the e-bikes and e-trikes out here. 

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