Can You Ride an Electric Trike or Regular Tricycle No Handed? You'll Never Believe What Happens!

Can you ride an electric trike or a regular trike? No hands? Hey everyone, I'm Dustin. I have nearly 20 years of experience in the bike and e-bike industry, and today I'm going to show you if you can ride a tricycle or e-trike with no hands. Alright, right here I'm sitting on the Simple Glide Fat Tire E-Trike. This is an awesome E-Trike, very stable and comfortable with my high backrest seat here. Now, can you ride an electric trike or trike no-handed? Many of you don't want to do that, but let's just say there's a time when you wanna keep riding and maybe rest your arms, right? Well, on two-wheel bikes, we know you can go no-handed. You just have to use your body weight to shift and keep the handlebars straight. Now, what's a little bit different on a three-wheel bike is that shifting your body weight doesn't have an impact on the front handlebars the way it does on a two-wheel bike. Because when you shift your weight, you're more so just moving around the back here, your rear tires, rear wheels. So it's more challenging to ride no-handed on a trike, challenging in both, but often when you try to ride no-hands on a trike, the wheel's gonna start to go this direction, and all of a sudden you can't turn. And shifting your weight, like I said, isn't going to have an impact on keeping the handlebars straight.

Now, on a trike like this with a fat tire, you have more opportunity to ride no-handed, or it's easier because with a 4-inch wide tire, it's harder to move the tire off the center line. You have to apply a little more force, oh, I have my pedal assist on, than you would if you have a thinner tire. So if you have a thinner tire for your trike, let's say 3 inches or below, that tire's gonna wanna come off, move, and that's because on trikes, you have to steer. You have to keep the wheel straight. That's just the way they operate, but with the fatter tire, we might be able to do it. So I'm gonna get in position here and I'm gonna put this in my lowest level of assistance. And I'm gonna get my wheel nice and straight. And I'm gonna start pedaling. Now you can see the wheel already turns to the side. So let me go ahead and try to just get the wheel like this, and I'll try. See, I'm even leaning, and the wheel turns. So let's try one more time, no dice. Let me try to turn around and go downhill. And again, with the fat tire, it should be the easiest. So this just kind of shows you how you need to steer a trike to get it to go in the direction you want. All right. Now we're not going uphill, so we're going downhill a little bit, so this might be a little bit easier. Nope. So we can go no-handed. You just have to go in a complete circle. All right, let's turn the wheel straight

Let me see if I put it a little bit the other way. Nope. Let me turn the pedal assist off and just go a little slower. Nope. Okay, It has zero effect on the front handlebars. Now, on a two-wheel bike, when you lean, that will affect the handlebars. So, I think, it's not funny, let me see if I get my momentum going a little bit, all right? Now let me pull off my hand, okay. So, there we go. So if you get your momentum going, you get that wheel turning, and then you take your hands off, you can kinda see the wheel does, now I'm drifting this way, but the wheel stays straighter. So you do, kinda like a two-wheel bike, I guess, right? You gotta get the momentum of the wheels going to be able to take your hands off. So let's see, again, I'm gonna go up here a little bit. Turn around. Okay, so let's get up to speed, and let's take our hands off. Now the wheel's staying straight. Again, it's drifting a little bit but stays straighter. So it is possible, it looks like. Now let me see. Let me get going again a little faster. So it seems like, actually the faster, the better, which I think in some regards is true of no hands-on two wheels, right? The faster, the more the wheel stays straight. So let's get going really fast. Yeah, so it stays straighter. So you do, kinda like a two-wheel bike, I guess, right? You gotta get the momentum of the wheels going to be able to take your hands off. So you do, kinda like a two-wheel bike, I guess, right? You gotta get the momentum of the wheels going to be able to take your hands off.

So let's see, again, I'm gonna go up here a little bit. Turn around. Okay, so let's get up to speed, and let's take our hands off. Now the wheel's staying straight. It's drifting a little bit but stays straighter. So it is possible, it looks like. Now let me see. Let me get going again a little faster. So it seems like, actually the faster, the better, which I think in some regards is true of no hands-on two wheels, right? The faster, the more the wheel stays straight. So let's get going really fast. Yeah, so it stays straighter. So, if you are out pedaling on a trail, and I only have that in pedal assist, let's crank the pedal assist up here a little bit. Now again, it's gonna be a little bit more difficult on a thinner tire, so let's get going really fast here. And then I'll take my hands off. There we go, so you can do it. So, no hands-on a trike is possible. So if you're on a long ride, and wanna rest your arms, let me see here, I'll go a little farther. You just gotta make sure you keep up to a certain speed. I have it in pedal-assist four and we stay nice and straight. So, let's try one more thing. Let's see if I can just sit there, with my arms on the armrest, while I'm going no hands on my trike. I think this also shows you how balanced this trike is because with this 4-inch wide tire, it stays straight on its own. There we go. Nice and comfortable. So. You can do it.

It's going to be more challenging the thinner the tires, but if you keep the momentum, the faster you go, the straighter it stays. So really, if you honestly want to sit back, relax, put your arms like this, go no hands, and keep this baby going, probably in pedal assist three or above at least to make sure you get the speed necessary. But no hands-on with any trike is possible. So any other questions or comments, reach out to us at theteam@sixthreezero.com or call us at 310-982-2877. Also, we offer a 30-day test ride on your e-trike policy. If you don't love it in the first 30 days, send it back. No questions asked, no money out of your pocket. We also warranty everything for one year. If anything goes wrong in the first year, we'll take care of it, parts and labor. And come out for a test ride. We're in San Clemente, California, at 1046 Kairokoto Unit K. Come test ride all of our e-trikes before you purchase. And finally, join our community. We have a Facebook group called Sixthreezero Pedalers. There are thousands of members in the group. Join the group before you purchase to talk to existing riders to ensure you're making the right choice. Then, when you have yours, post in the group, make friends, and finally download the app to track your rides and compete on the leaderboard. Don't forget, it's your journey or experience. Enjoy the ride.