BalanceBikeToddler
9 of 11 state own weight, 6 state a rider limit, and only 6 state both — the gap a parent should check.
Kids Tricycle Weight: Own Heft vs Rider Limit
A tricycle publishes two weights that parents mix up: how heavy the trike itself is, and how heavy the child it is rated for may be. Of the 11 tricycles, 9 state their own weight and 6 state a rider limit, but only 6 state both — so 3 tell you the trike's heft without saying what it will carry.
Own weight against rated load
Two fields, counted apart.
Own weights run from 7.3 to 15 lb across the nine that publish one; rider limits run from 30 to 55 lb across the six that publish one. The fields answer different questions and are never summed.
The ratio that matters
For the six trikes that state both, how many times the trike's own weight the child may be.
Tightest is 2.5× — the trike that is itself heavy (12 lb) but rated for only 30 lb, so the child may weigh two and a half times the toy.
Widest is 7.5× — the light trike (7.3 lb) rated for 55 lb, where the child may outweigh the toy by more than seven times. A higher ratio is not safer; it is just a lighter toy rated for a heavier child.
Where the weight goes missing
Four gaps in the weight data.
3 trikes give their own weight but no rider limit, so a parent cannot check whether their child is within load.
0 trike gives a rider limit with no own weight; none here, which means the silence is always "how heavy is the toy", never "how heavy is the child".
Units are mixed: 9 weights are in pounds and 1 is in kilograms (converted to lb for display), so the column is not in one unit in the source.
One listing carried a "1 Pounds" weight, below the generator's 2 lb floor, and was dropped as a placeholder rather than published — counted as implausible, not as a real figure.
Every trike, weighed
Sorted by own weight. The ratio column shows rider-limit ÷ own-weight for the six that state both.