Three Wheel Trike Motorcycle Coloring Page

This Three Wheel Trike Motorcycle Coloring Page meets the machine head on, filling the sheet from the tips of its flame shaped mirrors down to the tread of a single front tire. Two wide rear tires sit out to the sides where a normal bike has nothing, the handlebars sweep up and back over the seat, and a large oval headlight stares straight out between two smaller lamps. Nothing sits behind it. The page is white from the mirrors to the margins, which is unusual in this set and makes it one of the calmest sheets here. A free printable trike motorcycle coloring page for ages 4 to 10.

How this coloring page was created

For this page we entered the concept: "A three wheeled trike motorcycle seen from the front, two wide rear wheels behind and a long front fork rising" on Colorin AI and generated a print ready coloring page in seconds.

"Seen from the front" is the phrase that decided the drawing. A trike drawn from the side is just a motorcycle with a wheel hidden behind another wheel, and a child looking at it would never know what makes it different. Head on, the two rear tires swing out to either side and the shape becomes unmistakable. The view also handed the page its symmetry: fold the sheet down the middle and almost every line lands on its twin.

What is in this trike motorcycle coloring page

The mirrors are the surprise. Instead of the usual oval on a stalk, each one is drawn as a curling flame, a detail borrowed from custom trikes, and the two of them crown the page at its very top.

They matter more than they look. Everything below them is machinery, and machinery tends to get colored in one flat tone. The two flames are the only shapes on the sheet with room for a bright color that touches nothing else, so they are what keeps the finished page from turning into a single gray block.

Counting the drawing: each rear tire carries six curved band ribs, and the front tire shows about fourteen tread bars running across its face. Three lamps sit across the nose, one large oval in the middle and a small circle on a short stalk to either side. Each handlebar grip is ringed with roughly seven hatch marks, and the bars themselves are two long tubes that rise past the seat back before curving in. The fairing around the headlight is built from four nested outlines that repeat the same pointed shape at four sizes. Below, four frame tubes run from the nose out to the rear axle, and a small mudguard caps the front wheel.

Coloring Ideas and Techniques

With no background at all, the paper is doing the work of the sky, so the trike has to carry the page on its own. The easiest way to make that happen is to color the two rear tires and the front tire in the same dark tone and leave the body bright. Three matching dark circles at the corners frame everything between them, and the machine lifts off the white without a single line being added.

The nested fairing outlines around the headlight are the one place worth slowing down for. Four bands, each a slightly smaller version of the one outside it, take four shades of a single color beautifully, going lightest at the outer edge and darkest at the middle. It is the same trick used on real custom paint, and it takes about two minutes.

Want a trike of your own on the page? Turn a photo into a coloring page and print the one you actually saw at the last bike show.