A two-year-old and a five-year-old use the same tricycle in completely different ways. That is why the rating on this range is 2-5 years and 50 kg rather than a single number, and why the frame is steel.
Below two, a child cannot reach the pedals with enough force to move the tricycle, and the unit becomes a push-along toy — which is a different product with a different frame. Above five, the rider is heavy enough and fast enough that a tricycle's single front-wheel drive becomes the limiting factor, and the next purchase is a scooter.
So 2-5 years is not a marketing range. It is the window in which a pedal tricycle is the right product, and it is also the window in which your retail customer will use it every day.
| Check | How to test it | What fails |
|---|---|---|
| Steering play | Assemble, lock, push forward and back | Movement at the head tube |
| Pedal and guard | Rotate the full circle by hand | Guard exposing chain at either end |
| Seat fixing | Press down and twist by hand | Rotation, rock, or a fixing that loosens |
| Carton protection | Look at the inner packing, not the tricycle | Handlebar ends touching the carton wall |
The natural next purchase after a tricycle is a 3-wheel scooter, which is the range we build on our scooter site: same buying office, same port, cartons around 0.139-0.141 CBM with 10 pieces each. If you sell both, the customer who bought the tricycle at two is the customer you sell the scooter to at four — and the freight maths on the scooter is roughly a third per piece, which is worth knowing when you set the retail price of each.
Colour ways in this range are grouped around what sells at each end of the age window. Bright primaries and character fronts dominate the 2-3 bracket, while motorcycle shells and darker colour ways sell into the 4-5 bracket. That is a merchandising observation, not a rule — but it is why the range has six character shells and three motorcycle ones rather than nine of either.
Short answers to the questions this page raises.
2-5 years, with a 50 kg load rating on every model. Below two the child cannot drive the pedals; above five the next purchase is usually a scooter.
Because the load case includes a child standing on the rear step, and because a rating with headroom survives daily use better than one sized exactly to the rider.
Rubber on all twelve models, which matters on pavement and on tiled shop floors where plastic wheels skate.
Steering play at the head tube, pedal and chain-guard alignment through a full rotation, seat fixings under hand pressure, and the carton's inner packing.
Yes — our scooter line packs 10 to a 0.139-0.141 CBM carton and ships from the same port, so both categories can share a container.
The pages that answer the next question.
Send the models and quantity you have in mind. You get carton size, CBM, gross weight and FOB Tianjin price in writing, usually within one working day.