Van Raam
Van Raam produces a wide selection of bikes and trikes adapted for seniors and people with disabilities, including adaptive trikes, tandem bikes, double rider bikes, low step-through bikes, electric scooters, wheelchair bikes, and walking aids. Each model they make is also available as an electric bike. Their Easy Rider Compact Tricycle
Easy Rider Tricycle is one of the best adaptive trikes made for adults and seniors. It has a low step-through frame, a seat with adjustable back support, rear suspension, and can be equipped with electric assist, making this trike very comfortable, stable, and easy to ride.
Hase
Hase makes recumbent trikes, adaptive bikes, tandem bikes, and e-bikes for touring, commuting, and recreational riding. Hase bikes are easy to adjust and customize to fit a wide range of riding styles and physical abilities. Hase’s most popular bikes for adults with special needs include their TRIGO, TRIGO NEXUS, and TRIGO UP delta trikes.
HP Velotechnik
HP Velotechnik makes a wide range of recumbent bikes, trikes and accessories, designed and engineered in Germany to very high quality standards. Each model in their extensive line of delta and tadpole trikes can be customized with many different options to meet your specific needs. One of their newest models, the Delta tx, comes with many features, like electric-assist and rear suspension, that make this “chopper” style trike especially well suited for seniors who want a safe, easy, comfortable, portable, and practical trike for everyday mobility and recreation.
Sun SeekerSun Seeker makes the most popular, best-selling line of recumbent bikes and trikes in America, and for good reason. Sun Seeker bikes and trikes are the most affordable, high quality entry level recumbent cycles on the market. Cycle Ability is an authorized dealer for Sun Seeker recumbent cycles, and we provide sales and service of all Sun Seeker recumbent bikes and trike models.
Van Raam
Van Raam produces a wide selection of bikes and trikes adapted for children with special needs, including trikes, tandem bikes, double rider bikes, low step-through bikes, electric scooters, wheelchair bikes, and walking aids. Each model they make is also available as an electric bike. Their Easy Rider Compact Small Tricycle is designed for children with balance or stability issues. Their Easy Rider Compact Trike is suitable for larger children and small adults.
Hase
Hase offers several adaptive recumbent trike models designed for children with special needs: TRETS and TRETS REH for younger riders, TRIX for older adolescent kids, and hand-powered Hand Bikes. All models are fully adjustable and offer exceptional safety and stability, with options like above-seat handlebars or under-seat steering, and a 3-point harness to keep little ones in their seats, making them ideal for children with neuromuscular disorders or limited movement.
HPVelotechnik
HPVelotechnik makes the Gekko fxs, an adaptive trike for smaller people or children with special needs that grows with your child. The Gekko fxs frame can easily be adjusted to fit anyone from 4 feet up to almost 6 feet tall. The “tadpole” tricycle design with two wheels in front and a low center of gravity ensures safety and stability for anyone with balance issues. HP’s OrthoFlex seat is ergonomic, comfortable and completely adjustable to fit your child all the way into adulthood. The trike can be equipped with bicycle bags or baskets attached to a rear rack. The Gekko fxs can be folded to make it easy to transport, fit and store anywhere. HP’s online Configurator lets you select from many options to customize the Gekko fxs to meet your child’s specific needs.
AZUB
AZUB’s T-Trisek is a tadpole trike designed for riders from 4’3” tall up to almost 6 feet tall, to fit smaller adults and growing children all the way into adulthood. You can use AZUB’s Configurator to customize the T-Trisek with many options tailored to meet your child’s needs, including different drivetrains, electric motors, headrests, seat adapters, grab handles, and automatic gear shifters and brake levers that can be controlled with one hand only. The T-Trisek can be equipped with a folding hinge for easy transport and storage.
Trident Trikes
Trident Trikes’ Half Pint is a lightweight aluminum-frame tadpole trike designed to be the same as an adult trike, but scaled down to fit children ages 5 to 12 years old. The Half Pint features 14” wheels, scaled down brake levers, adjustable seat angle, and adjustable boom to fit smaller riders. The Half Pint is also extremely light: at only 18 pounds, the Half Pint is the lightest weight tadpole trike made. The Half Pint comes with either a single speed gear or a 3 speed Sturmey Archer internal hub. Trident also makes the 3/4 Pint, a larger trike for children ages 8-14.
Rifton
Rifton makes the best-selling lines of adaptive tricycles for adults and children with disabilities, all assembled in the US. Rifton trikes offer children with disabilities therapeutic health benefits, including improved leg strength, posture, balance and range of motion, socialization, engagement with friends and family, and the freedom of independent mobility. The Rifton Adaptive Tricycle comes in 3 sizes to fit small children up to young adults. Their trikes are highly adjustable and come with many options, including seat belts and harnesses, backrests, headrests, caregiver push handles, coaster brakes, and puncture-proof wheels.
Freedom Concepts
Freedom Concepts in Canada builds adaptive bikes and trikes, including upright tricycles, semi-recumbent trikes, tandems, handcycles, and hand and foot cycles, to provide mobility and therapeutic benefits to children with disabilities. Every cycle they make is custom-made, built to order, and fully adjustable to meet the exact specifications and unique requirements of each rider. Special seating, footplates, or headrests can be added to each model to make riding accessible, safe, and comfortable. They offer electric assist on most models.
Amtryke
Amtryke makes a full line of upright and recumbent foot trikes, hand trikes, and hand-and-foot trikes in a wide range of sizes adapted for adults and children with disabilities. Each tricycle is custom-built to meet individual rider’s special needs. Amtryke can modify all hand-and-foot trikes with a wide variety of adaptive components, including foot platforms, adjustable seating, and many accessories that help riders feel safe, stable and secure. Amtryke’s Sizing Chart makes it easy to find the right Amtryke that fits your child.
Trivel
Trivel, another Canadian company, creates innovative tricycles that enhance mobility for all, combining comfort, safety, and enjoyment in each design. Trivel’s goal is to empower users with reliable, enjoyable transportation options that cater to diverse needs and ensures accessibility for all. Their Orthopedic Collection of trikes for children, including the T250 trike for younger children and T350 trike for older children, are stable and easy to mount, with adjustable seats, handlebars and reclining backrests.
Triaid
Triaid specializes in manufacturing tricycles for disabled children, all hand-built in the US. Triaid offers a wide range of adaptive cycles that can be customized to meet the special needs of each rider. Their trikes are designed with built-in adjustability and can be customized with positional supports, seat options, backrests, and foot supports, to ensure each rider is comfortable and can operate the cycle safely. The Triaid Trikebuilder Guide lets you to customize and preview trikes to find the trike that best meets your child’s needs.
Worksman Cycles
Worksman Cycles is America's oldest bicycle manufacturer, making bikes and trikes in the US since 1898. Worksman makes some of the most affordable adaptive trikes on the market. Worksman offers a wide range adaptive cycles and accessories for riders of all ages and levels of ability, including youth trikes, electric trikes, and hand-powered cycles, in both upright and recumbent versions. Most of their trikes are fully adjustable to fit your specific needs.
BikeDifferent
Bike Different, Cycle Ability’s parent company, designs and makes a wide range of innovative adaptive cycling components and accessories that can be mounted on many of the cycles we sell, including ergonomic Cool Bike Seats, with Steer Safe adjustable armrest steering that places all controls right at your fingertips, and Full-Foot Pedals, the only safe, comfortable, lightweight, foot-shaped pedals, custom-made to fit each rider’s feet, with adjustable arch straps and heel cups that securely hold your feet on the pedals.
Let us know what adaptive components and accessories you’d like on your bike, and we’ll either find them or custom make them for you!
If you have any questions, you'd like additional information, or you’re interested in purchasing any of the adaptive bikes, trikes, components and accessories we offer, please feel free to get in touch with us by visiting Bike Different, our online bike store, to schedule a free consultation and test ride with our Accessibility Advisors.
We look forward to helping you find the best cycles adapted to meet your special needs, so you can experience the joys of cycling!
