As you may have noticed, we have temporarily halted work on the racing
trike, due to a delay getting the appropriate wheels for the rear.
In the meantime, another of our current projects has been developing…a
prototype hand pedaled trike designed for the US market. It will be
used to research the feasability of such a trike, and wether it would
sell for an acceptable profit. That profit would then be used by HWI
to support our international hand pedaled trike program. Such an
alternate “income source” would be especially helpful in paying for a
portion of the cost of these trikes in places where the disabled
recipient cannot afford to pay the full price of the trike they need.
In the pictures below you will see some of the parts for the new seat
design. While this US trike will be similar in some ways to our
African style trikes, it will have several changes that we feel may be
crucial to a US market. One of these is a somewhat more sophisticated
seat design that looks better and is easier to adjust. It will also
have an easily removed seat back to allow the trike to fit into most
cars.
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