Favorable Ryker review in The Guardian (major UK newspaper)

[rodentrancher]

A major UK paper has a short but glowing article about the Ryker. Oddly, it's not clear if the author actually rode one.

It starts at less than £9,000 and for that you get a hell of a lot of trike. It’s comfortable, fun and easy to ride.

Apparently in the UK you can operate one on a car driver's license. I wonder if the Ryker was targeted more for the UK/Europe than for the States?

Article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...or-your-money-

[Bfromla]

A major UK paper has a short but glowing article about the Ryker. Oddly, it's not clear if the author actually rode one.



Apparently in the UK you can operate one on a car driver's license. I wonder if the Ryker was targeted more for the UK/Europe than for the States?

Article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...or-your-money-

It's SMALL enough

[Chupaca]

Nice aticle and good reports will help no matter where they are from. Would agree that it was designed more with the foriegn market than ours. They tend to be much more expensive abroad and their roads are more suited for the Ryker....

[Batmobil-F3]

In the European Union, anyone aged 21 or over can drive a trike with a car driving licence. Helmets are compulsory. A 600cc costs 9.799 Euro, a 900cc 11.499 Euro and the ralley edition costs 12.699 Euro. For comparison a F3-S costs 22.199 Euro, a F3 Limited 27.799 Euro and a RT Limited 29.299 Euro.

[ARtraveler]

Glad to see another article with good things to say about the product.

[monkeyboymorton]

In the UK you need a licence issued before a certain date to ride one without a motorbike test (2013 I think) as it comes under some very old 'tricycle' rules. The government stopped including them with new licences after that date.

No need to wear a helmet in UK either, but I wouldn't ride it without one personally. I'm quite fond of my brain staying inside my head.

As for the Guardian article he definitely hasn't ridden it. There haven't been any European test rides AFAIK and I haven't seen any pictures of the euro spec as yet (we'll need different lights to meet regs).