Three Cross wheels our three-wheeler

Three Cross Motorcycles recently held a low-key UK press launch for the long-awaited new range-topping Peugeot Metropolis scooter.

The Metropolis is a high-spec 399cc machine with Piaggio MP3-style tilting body and twin front wheels. It’s classed as a tricycle so can be ridden by full car licence holders (providing they passed their test pre 3DLD) or A2-class bike licence holders. Refinements include a keyless ignition and an electronic parking brake … plus, of course, an extra front wheel to keep things nice and stable. Peugeot was forced to develop the scooter when Italian giant Piaggio’s MP3 became the best-selling model in France.

The press event was held in Oxfordshire with Paul Francis, 3X Multimedia Manager; aftersales and technical manager Pete Scott and Three Cross PR man Dan Sager on hand to answer questions and supply hungry journalists from MCN, Ride, the Daily Telegraph and small-capacity website www.2commute.co.uk with a hearty country pub lunch.

Stock of the Metropolis will be arriving in dealers very soon and favourable road tests should see well-heeled punters flocking to Peugeot dealerships with just shy of seven thousand pounds burning a hole in their carefully tailored pockets.