Patent ID: 7874566

Claim:
A dual riding and driving tricycle, comprising: a primary bicycle body includes a front wheel, a rear wheel, a saddle for a rider to sit thereon, a steering handle for controlling a driving direction and a pair of pedals for the rider to power the primary bicycle body; an auxiliary cycle body including an auxiliary saddle, an auxiliary wheel and an auxiliary driving mechanism having a pair of pedals so that an auxiliary rider sitting on the auxiliary saddle can pedal the pair of pedals of the auxiliary driving mechanism to power the auxiliary cycle body; at least one articulation mechanism including a first linking terminal for coupling with the primary bicycle body, a second linking terminal for coupling with the auxiliary cycle body and a pair of parallel linking beams arranged such that the first linking terminal, the second linking terminal and the two parallel linking beams construct a parallelogram articulation; and a resilient tension mechanism including at least two elastic elements such that both ends of each said elastic element are respectively connected to the articulation mechanism.