The Piaggio MP3 is a tilting three-wheeled scooter by Italian manufacturer Piaggio. First marketed in 2006, it is noted for its combination of two front wheels and a single rear wheel.
Piaggio MP3
2007 Piaggio MP3
Example of the MP3 parallelogram suspension
Singapore Civil Defence Force Piaggio MP3 Firebike (Red Scorpions)
A tilting three-wheeler, tilting trike, leaning trike, or even just tilter, is a three-wheeled vehicle and usually a narrow-track vehicle whose body and or wheels tilt in the direction of a turn. Such vehicles can corner without rolling over despite having a narrow axle track because they can balance some or all of the roll moment caused by centripetal acceleration with an opposite roll moment caused by gravity, as bicycles and motorcycles do. This also reduces the lateral acceleration experienced by the rider, which some find more comfortable than the alternative. The narrow profile can result in reduced aerodynamic drag and increased fuel efficiency. These types of vehicles have also been described as "man-wide vehicles" (MWV).
Vandenbrink Carver (1F1T)
Tripendo recumbent tricycle, a tilting three-wheeler (2F3T)
Yamaha Niken from 2018
UWM PantherTrike, a narrow-track, tilting, recumbent, human-powered trike (1F3T)