Trikes - A Hong Kong Thing?

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    Trikes - A Hong Kong Thing?

    Thanks to heavy subsidies luxury electric cars are now very much a Hong Kong thing.

    But also looking at the change in vehicles on the roads in the last few years there seems to of been a huge increase in the number of 2 front wheel motorbikes.



    No doubts the motorcycle purists will decry them as some sort of devil machine that defeats the joy of riding. BUT there seems to be a lot of them on the road, are they popular in any other countries?


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    Last edited by East_coast; 30-11-2015 at 08:03 PM.

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    Very popular in Paris.


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    Serious question, what's the point of having two wheels at the front in these things?

    Edit: I get it for the very wide ones, but the one in the OP with very close wheels not so much.

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    Quote Originally Posted by East_coast:
    Thanks to heavy subsidies luxury electric cars are now very much a Hong Kong thing.
    No FRT, but it is hardly a subsidy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 100LL:
    Serious question, what's the point of having two wheels at the front in these things?
    Many of the riders are upgraders, this is what the rode before:

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    Quote Originally Posted by emx:
    No FRT, but it is hardly a subsidy.
    Surely lost tax income is a subsidy.

    Approx $800k FRT subsidy plus 100% profits tax deduction for the capital expenditure