I'm kidding, right - three-wheelers? No self-respecting PHer would be seen dead in a vehicle with one wheel short of the full square. Wobbly, unstable, rut-following jokes, the lot of them - right?
An understandable view, since most people associate three-wheelers with Del Boy, Mr Bean and cartoon-like bubble cars such as the Isetta, Heinkel and Messerschmitt. As a 'bubble' in prices of microcars attests, such machinery does have a big following, but if this is your only experience of trikes, you're really missing a trick.
Think three-wheelers and you'll think Morgan
I'll come clean here and declare I'm a serial three-wheeler owner. My first ever car was a Bond Bug, and I built a Lomax 223 2CV-based kit in the 1980s. So I'm very well aware of the limitations of three-wheelers, but I also know how just much fun they can be.
Consider these facts. Benz's first ever car of 1885 was a three-wheeler. And when Craig Breedlove broke the land speed record, he chose three wheels for his Spirit of America, which became the fastest car in the world in 1964 at 526mph.
Trikes offer light weight, low tax, cheap insurance and the ability to enjoy a motorbike experience on a car licence (with no helmet, I might add). Alternatively, bike licence holders are able to drive a 'car'. But don't three-wheelers fall over? Again I counter: racing Morgans dating from the 1930s are capable of lap times that can, and do, embarrass modern hot hatchbacks.
Reborn Morgan has been a success story
Ah yes, Morgan - the archetypal enthusiast trike. I was quite prepared to be disappointed by the revived
Morgan 3-Wheeler
before I drove it, but there's something utterly irresistible about it. It screeches, whirrs, putters, cracks and pops its way along, spinning up its single rear wheel on demand, with an utterly blissful front-row view of the undulating suspension.
Well over 1,000 new Morgan trikes have now been sold, even at their elevated price tag of £31,140. That means lots of second-hand examples around at tempting prices. It's possible to find used examples from under £25K but main-dealer examples with ultra-low mileages and plenty of options seem very decent value at around the £28K mark.
Morgans look best in dark colours, like this 995-mile Sports Blue example but plenty have been tempted by factory dress-up and special edition examples, such as the Superdry, of which there's a 511-mile example on offer for under £28K.
Grinnalls and bear it
Morgan isn't the only three-wheeler in the PH classifieds, though. There's a whole world of three-wheelers out there. The UK alone boasts over 20 current manufacturers of trikes, from Morgan replicas like Triking to bike-based cruisers like Casarva.
Or the Grinnall Scorpion. Amazingly, this has been in production for 23 years, during which time well over 250 have been made. The idea of strapping a superbike rear end (in this case, a BMW K series) on to a car-type front end isn't new, but few trikes look as good, or perform as well, as a Grinnall.
There are two up for grabs at the moment. A 2006-registered factory-built example with 8,072 miles on the clock looks solid value at £8,250, while a 2,000-mile example with an R1200C engine is up for £11,995.
Whether you think three-wheelers are one wheel shy of the full set, or one wheel beyond preventing the whole show falling over, there's no doubt they're fascinating and intriguing. And on the right road, an absolute blast.