Little Tikes Bike	The Performance Trike

At first glance, The Little Tikes is a beautiful ride featuring bright colors, graceful lines, and the safety of training wheels and tread-rich tires. The basket is an outstanding complement, holding tools, stuffed animals, snacks, or whatever else suits your t.Human’s fancy. The geometry has a steep head angle for an upright ride, enhanced by the long cockpit that encourages a forward, aggressive position. Unfortunately, this puts pressure on the front end, leading to sluggish steering and slippage of the headset. The geometry seems to fight the rider’s pedalstroke, driving the power down onto the wheel instead of into it. While the Little Tikes comes with offroad tires, our test riders found they lacked balance or bite, and offered too much rolling resistance. Each time we would expect the wheels to hook up, they slid out in disappointing fashion. Coupled with the steep geometry, the ride was imprecise and unforgiving. The construction was also disappointing, with bolt-on hubs that always felt too tight or too noodly. As much as we wanted to, our test riders just could not like Little Trikes

The Performance Trike offers a totally different ride, with a slack but highly stable geometry. Coupled with a smaller cockpit, this led to much better power transfer to the pedals. The bike leaped under our tester, and the thin, low-tread urethane wheels accentuated the bike’s acceleration. It may look like a cruiser, but it spun like a race car. Performance’s design team again surprised us with the wider but shorter wheelbase, offering a balanced ride with true steering. Where the Little Tike’s training wheels failed to provide balance, the Performance Trike simply designs away from that flaw. Elegant lines, cool gender-neutrual electric blue powdercoat, and a scooter step make this steed the clear winner.

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