Time passes for everyone, alters the course and modifies all things. This power has not been spared motorcycles, which, like everything else, have undergone a great evolution. In this post you will know the result of the evolution of the motorcycle: 4-wheel motorcycles.



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Although they originally only had two, four-wheelers are a reality. The advance of time has ended up calling into question some of the most solidly founded truths of the human being. And this has also ended up reaching motorcycles.


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It can be said that the first four-wheel motorcycles in the contemporary industry were enduro bikes and appeared in the 80s. They were called quads and the best of them all for specialized magazines was the legendary Honda TRX 250 R.


In those same years, in the early 80s, someone thought that one of those four-wheel motorcycles, but with 4x4 traction, would be great. So the brands set out to make what is popularly known as 4x4 ATV, in the style of the Honda Rubicon that is still produced for the North American market.


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The 4x4 ATV was basically a miniature off-road car steered from a seat by handlebars, so you can hardly consider it a four-wheel motorcycle . All of this, from today's perspective, was just the prehistory of true four-wheelers.


Before trying four, it's been quite a few years since the scooter industry launched into the three-wheel universe. With three points of support, they were not so much motorcycles, but rather trikes in different configurations. The trikes , tricycles or whatever you call them , were born shortly before the quads we mentioned in the previous paragraph.


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With one front wheel and two rear wheels, with no rear axle differential, the trike was such a difficult and demanding machine that it was soon limited to competition use.


When the tricycle reappeared in the scooter industry in the 21st century, it did so with a different combination: two front wheels and one rear. The main novelty is that these two front wheels tilted laterally to favor the lean of the vehicle in the curves. With this, the scooter was much more stable and safe.


At the time, the first large-displacement scooters with two front wheels had also been seen, and he did not take too long before he began to see that concept applied to two front wheels and two rear wheels: the first four-wheel motorcycle of the contemporary era was born. .


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The first prototypes of four-wheel motorcycles appeared at the 2007 Tokyo Motor Show. They combined a twin-cylinder engine and an electric motor on a cycle part that tilted independently on its four wheels. However, it was never mass-produced. This concept was taken further, developing a new model closer to a single-seater car with an urban character due to the quality of having a seat with a backrest and a roof.


But the manufacturers do not give up and several continue to work on the four-wheel motorcycle of the future. At the Tokyo Motor Show, a prototype could even be seen with the ability to change configuration on the go, that is, from a sporty position, for example, to an urban position, similar to a scooter.



For those who were used to driving a motorcycle, the three-wheeled scooters were not such a radical change, but rather made driving easier by making the whole more stable. The same can be applied to the four-wheeled motorcycle. At first you are aware that something works differently, but soon after you discover that the end is the same, benefiting at the same time from greater stability and safety of travel.


The future of four-wheel motorcycles has arrived, and surely those who want to move around the city on a motorcycle, but see it too risky due to a question of balance, be the first to try four-wheel motorcycles, since it is a before and a later in terms of security.

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