>>2011304Oh I actually bought a Yamaha Tricity 300 a few weeks ago.
The reason I bought it is that I'm sick and tired of public transport (the people on it and the fact that it doesn't work very well for the routes/places I need to go) and I'm interested in buying a motorcycle.
The law here allows me to ride a trike (legally something with three wheels and a track wider than 460 mm) on a car license, so the Tricity or the MP3 are a great way to test if riding a motorcycle is something for you or not, before spending all the money and time required to get the motorcycle license which can be quite expensive in my country.
The Tricity doesn't stand up on it's own, it has a "stand assist" feature that you can manually activate when going below like 5 km/h or 3 mph and which deactivates when you rev above 2500 rpm (so basically instantly when leaving a stop). The bike does no balancing of it's own so if you let it go when stopped, or lean too much or too little in a turn, it will fall over just like any motorcycle.
I am loving it so far and will definitely be pursuing a motorcycle license next year when I've been riding this for a while to gain experience. Upsides specific to the Tricity is that the front end is quite wide so it protects well from wind, and we have trams in my city and I've heard the Tricity is good for that since you're less likely to fall due to getting the front wheel on a slippery tram track. The downsides to the Tricity is that it's like 30% heavier than the two-wheeled equivalent (240 kg vs 180 kg for the Yamaha X-Max 300) and of course the added complexity of the whole front end including two braking systems, two suspension systems, two wheels and so on. It's also quite large so it's not as easy to inconspicuously park among bicycles and stuff as something like a Vespa may be.
