Restoring a Vintage Miami Sun Adult Tricycle
Q: I recently acquired a trike, seem to be a Miami Sun Deluxe, however I can not find any information on it or it’s model and am not even sure if this is really the model and of course no idea on the year, the trike is very rusted and needs restoration. I would like to restore with original parts.
A: You look to have an early Miami Sun adult tricycle, probably from the late 1970′s or 1980′s – hard to tell from the one photo. If you need an exact model number or year, you might be able to contact Miami Sun….but really I don’t think it matters too much. Before you start restoring it, you need to ask yourself why you want to restore it. Because honestly, you will never get the value back out of the tricycle that you put into it. It isn’t something that is going to be collectible, probably ever. You can buy brand new adult tricycles for a few hundred dollars. Finding original parts is going to be quite difficult if not impossible, and likely quite costly, with very little return.
If you want to fix it just for yourself to ride, you should be able to get some used parts on the internet from that time period for not too much money, including a more realistic handlebar for that tricycle, which would be mostly flat with a small rise sweeping back. When looking for old parts for adult tricycles, focus more on the vintage bicycle sites rather than tricycle sites, as the parts are the same as on bicycles of that era.
