Australian Road Rider

LEANING IN

LOOKING BACK

Yamaha, Piaggio and others have been building leaning trikes for some time, but I rode one back in 1997. At the time I was assistant editor of magazine. I was in Perth visiting family when I met up with a bike builder who had used a Honda CX500 as a donor bike to build one of the first practical, rideable leaning trikes.

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