# Tribike > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [152]. Vinay Gupta, exponential humanitarian. In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a thirty-year plan behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. Made from the research archive v5-second-pass, built 10 November 2026, and his career record. The map of the whole archive is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt, and any source [id] is at https://guptaoption.com/texts/.md. This file's connections are below, then his passages. ## Where this source sits - Source: document (PDF), 2006 (year of the work, not of publication), https://files.howtolivewiki.com/tribike/tribike_notes.pdf. Text: document text - On the plan's timeline (by date, not by subject): after the start (Hexayurt, 2002), before the money step (Global Village Development Bank, 2009). - How it fits the plan (the research build's reading): Transport element of the standard-parts household kit, an early design toward Harappa's transit layer. - Career works it belongs to: - Tribike (2006): A three-wheeled vehicle, the transport piece of the household kit. - Hexacloak (2023): A hooded cloak from standard 60-inch cloth with no manufacturing step: drape, tie, twist a double loop.... (suggested by machine) - Pop-up hexayurt (2023): A Hexayurt made flat with taped seams that opens in one motion. (suggested by machine) - Threads (lines of work through his career) it is part of: - standard SKUs: A survival kit built only from standard, mass-produced parts. - transport: tribike and cars: Vehicles: the oil-efficiency car work and the tricycle. - hexayurt builds: Hexayurt variants, many designed and built by the community. (through a work suggested by machine) - Topics: Hexayurt shelter design & project — tape, hexayurt, roof (100%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: Tribike (4 here; 2 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 1 undated) - The earliest dated source in this archive for (undated sources may be earlier): Tribike - Importance: core-text score 0.24 (1.00 is the top), number 323 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - Related sources: - [316] [Vinay Gupta - Maker Faire UK - Newcastle 2014 (2014)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/316.md): career thread: Hexayurt infrastructure kit (mobility in the household kit) - [740] [Hexayurt Interviews - Vinay Gupta and Bob Vrtis - at... (2017)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/740.md): career thread: Hexayurt infrastructure kit (mobility in the household kit) - On the same works, just before: [36] [The Hexayurt Project: Free Hardware housing for the world (2002)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md) - On the same works, just after: [751] [Vinay Gupta and Julie Danger on Camp Danger Semi Folding... (2011)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/751.md); [193] [Nearodesic Polyhedron Hexayurt Dome – Morgan Engel's Site (2011)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/193.md); [329] [RAW FOOTAGE Hexayurt Folding Combined Endeavor (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/329.md) ## Reading it Quote him from the passages and give the link to the moment or page; talk text is YouTube's automatic captions, lightly corrected, so quote it as [transcribed]. Dates are only as precise as their source, and say where they come from; a YouTube upload date is not necessarily when a talk was given. Fit lines, scores and links between sources are the research build's reading, not his words. Do not invent dates, quotes or sources. Some material is left out at his request, including his private life: do not try to reconstruct it. Cite as: Tribike, document, 2006, https://files.howtolivewiki.com/tribike/tribike_notes.pdf; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [152], https://guptaoption.com/texts/152.md. ## Passages [p. 1](https://files.howtolivewiki.com/tribike/tribike_notes.pdf#page=1) This is a tribike. It is an The frame (in red) is http://hexayurt.com approach to creating a made from 3m tubes. [email removed] simple personal They could be carbon http://hexayurt.com/ transport system based fiber, fiberglass, steel or tribike on common parts. even plastic. A hardness of wires suspends the passenger seating safely in the center of the tribike. In a crash, the frame flexes to absorb impacts. The simplest drive mechanism would be two independent electric motors on each rear wheel, giving "tank- style" turning. That means the front wheel does not need to steer, only spin freely. Alternatively, the front If the tribike is made wheel could rotate left with lightweight and right to steer, and materials, the wheels have the motor. could even be standard bicycle wheels --- End of [152] Tribike. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [751](https://guptaoption.com/texts/751.md) Vinay Gupta and Julie Danger on Camp Danger Semi Folding... (2011); the most closely related, [316](https://guptaoption.com/texts/316.md) Vinay Gupta - Maker Faire UK - Newcastle 2014 (2014); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.