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What is a Trellis Frame?

 Trellis Frame

The frame is the skeleton of the bike. The same way as human need the bones, the bike need frame to hold weight. A motorcycle has to hold a lot of weight, body, engine, fuel tank, electronics, rider and pillion.

If we look at some bike, they have thick bars frame forged together to bear weight. They are quite heavy and add lot of weight to bike. Solution of a Trellis frame leads to reduction in weight and also able to carry higher capacity loads. This divides load to evenly across all eds of frame.


This frame is made using aluminum or alloy tubular bars joint in triangular form using cantilever method,

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