Triking

<h2 id="history">History</h2>

<p>Triking Sports Cars was founded as Triking Cyclecars Ltd by former <a href="/facts/Lotus_Cars/KkwYsc0f">Lotus</a> employee Tony Divey (1930 - 2013). He built the first Triking in the late 1970s because he was unable to acquire a Morgan.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> It featured a steel <a href="/facts/Space_frame/aKwYtCj6">space frame</a> with alloy panels and a glass-fibre bonnet, and was powered by a <a href="/facts/Moto_Guzzi/PoGGvl7W">Moto Guzzi V-twin</a> motorcycle engine. Its popularity led to production. In 1990 Divey designed a new tubular front end and a one piece glass-fibre "body".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a>
</p><p><i>Telegraph</i> writer, Andrew English, commented of the Triking driving experience: "The intimacy is both profound, delightful and, for the claustrophobic, disturbing. Everything is so contiguous with the driver; you could have sex at a greater distance than this."
</p><p>Triking Cyclecars Ltd was dissolved in 2006 upon Divey's retirement and was reformed in 2009 by Alan Layzell, a Triking employee.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a>
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/List_of_car_manufacturers_of_the_United_Kingdom/2ah3wqBc">List of car manufacturers of the United Kingdom</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Three-wheeler/dvCfkJyR">Three-wheeler</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Cyclecar/VzNheMnU">Cyclecar</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Motorcycle_motor_powered_car/Yz4eqWJk">Motorcycle motor powered car</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/List_of_motorized_trikes/eGycMFC2">List of motorized trikes</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Morgan_3-Wheeler/yfu2dBfG">Morgan 3-Wheeler</a></li></ul>
<h2 id="notes">Notes</h2>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Triking vehicles.

<ul><li><a href="http://trikingsportscars.co.uk/">Triking Sports Cars official site</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.3wheelers.com/triking.html">Triking at 3wheelers.com</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.trikingsportscars.co.uk/">Alan Layzell and Triking Sports Cars</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>The A-Z of Three-Wheelers A definitive reference guide by Elvis Payne, Crecy Publishing Ltd 2013 ISBN 978-1-908347-16-9 <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>The A-Z of Three-Wheelers A definitive reference guide by Elvis Payne, Crecy Publishing Ltd 2013 ISBN 978-1-908347-16-9 <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>"Triking Sports Cars – Driving at its most elemental". <a href="http://trikingsportscars.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://trikingsportscars.co.uk/</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>The A-Z of Three-Wheelers A definitive reference guide by Elvis Payne, Crecy Publishing Ltd 2013 ISBN 978-1-908347-16-9 <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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