This site is dedicated to tilting three wheelers  - motorized or not - and to people who are fascinated by these vehicles or who simply would like to know more about them.

Three wheelers have been existing for a very long time. We can even assert that they were born before motorcars
since the famous "Fardier" that Nicolas - Joseph Cugnot built in 1770 (sponsored by the French king Louis XV), was designed in accordance with this principle. That's perhaps because it crashed against a wall during its first tests that, since that time, three wheelers have a negative reputation! …

Although at the end of the 19th century there were much more of them than motorcars, their development has very quickly decreased because of their doubtful dynamic behavior. Nevertheless, they sometimes came back on the roads, like the  Messerschmidt after the second world war or the famous english Reliant.

Today, only some specialised companies market three wheelers. Generally lowered or very wide to improve the dynamic behavior, they are specially machines dedicated to sports or leisure use.

Nevertheless, the current need to have low consumption, able to move in heavy traffic and easy to park vehicles could give a second chance to three wheelers or, to be more precise, to a new generation of three wheels vehicles : the Tilting Three Wheelers (TTW). Very close to the motorcycle dynamics, these fascinating machines don't have the defects of the conventional three wheelers.

One can reasonably assert that they succeed in combining the advantages of a motorcar (comfort and
safety) to those of a two wheels vehicle (handiness, ability to move in a heavy traffic and driving pleasure).

There are some of us throughout the world to be passionately fond of this concept. The US web site made by Mitch Casto (Hi Mitch !)  will allow you to discover the extraordinary universe of the TTW. Some big companies also begin to be interested in this phenomenon. These latest years, Daimler Chrysler, Aprilia, Italjet and Renault showed concepts of vehicles based on this principle. Since the beginning of the year 2002, a small Dutch company sells a fabulous machine: the Carver. In 2006, the Clever and the Piaggio Mp3 have also been introduced to the medias. This new approach also applies to the not-motorized machines and projects of tilting three wheels bikes are regularly shown.

For my part, I have been working for about two decades on this subject. It lead me to develop a certain number of motorized prototypes (Pulsar project, Torga and RC Three Wheeler) and muscular propulsion prototypes (Sweeler project).

It is the synthesis of this adventure which I suggest you to discover through the pages of this site.
My only wish is to pass on you the same passion as the one that animates all those who, like me, have
built, driven or even simply seen one of these machines. And if my objective is reached, then come in the "Espace Club". I would like to make you live the adventure of the project and share all the events with you as well as those lived by other inventors, and many other things... and I need your opinion and your suggestions, so that this Club is really yours.

For a moment, the rest of the visit is in french....

                                                                              Philippe Girardi