In August 2005, three months after HWI began Alice Teisan met Kevin Nikolich at a party! Alice shared her impossible dream with Kevin, “I hope to take a welding class so I can build a hand-pedaled trike.” Within minutes Kevin said, “I’m a Mechanical Engineer. Can I design, build, and pay for the trike prototyping?”
Between 2005 and 2015 HWI’s team has designed 22 different trike prototypes and a trike manufacturing process. Here you can find a comprehensive trike history overview. Or if you prefer here is a brief trike history overview.
Trikes have been used for “Tools as Mission” as they have been assembled, fabricated, and manufactured on five continents.
Read the full chronological trike history by double clicking on the years below.
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
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2011
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2012
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2013
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