Editing Tricycle (section)

====Tadpole====
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[[File:Q-Cycles Njunis in Tadpole Bauform.jpg|thumb|Recumbent tadpole]]

The recumbent tadpole or reverse trike is a recumbent design with two steered wheels at the front and one driven wheel at the back, though one model has the front wheels driven while the rear wheel steers. Steering is either through a single handlebar linked with tie rods to the front wheels' stub axle assemblies (indirect) or with two handlebars (rather, two half-handlebars) each bolted to a steerer tube, usually through a bicycle-type headset and connected to a stub axle assembly (direct). A single tie rod connects the left and right axle assemblies.

The tadpole trike is often used by middle-aged or retiree-age former bicyclists who are tired of the associated pains from normal upright bikes. With its extremely low center of gravity, aerodynamic layout and light weight (for trikes), tadpoles are considered the highest performance trikes.

Most [[velomobile]]s are built in a tadpole trike configuration since a wide front and narrow rear offer superior aerodynamics to a delta trike configuration.