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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard
No wider than any other trike. Trikes are legal bikes; and so are quadricycles.
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44" works out to 1120mm, the maximum legal width including any load of a bicycle is 660mm (local laws based on EU practice). Most trikes seem to be under 800mm wide (and probably technically illegal).
Bike lanes are a minimum of 1200mm wide, so that leaves 40mm per side. Dual purpose paths are narrower still.
On a side of the road bike lane, you'll be constantly swerving into traffic to avoid drains and debris (not to mention always running on all the curbside broken glass), may not fit past the bollards that control access to dedicated bike paths, can't maneuver past stationary traffic (will have to sit there with the exhaust in your face). You'll likely get a lot of abuse if you try driving it like a car on the road, which is really your only option.
I'm not opposed to this sort of thing at all, but it seems like a weekend fair weather toy.