Recumbent tadpole trike: Posts on Velomobilforum p.6

Hello sheng-fui,

I understand about translations since I must use one for German! I think I would miss so much without the translation as I found out the first time I looked at the forum with the machine translation. So German on Velomobilforum and American on my blog… Perhaps I will get it right the first time! ;D So on to leaning trikes.

I think I came up with a better geometry for the XYZ Leaning trike than what I presented but I am having real difficulty putting it into 2 dimensions. To solve that I am making a prototype in plywood. It will hopefully help me visualize. Maybe my prototype will let me take pictures that make sense instead of sketches and text descriptions. I believe what I have in mind is a bit like the Chike trike without suspension.

I think the Chike trikes are awesome! I think these trikes use a fairly common geometry. The nose rotates and with a modified wishbone they are supporting balance with shock control and springs. The shocks are also supporting full suspension as well. I see a cable going to the tilting mechanism from the handle bars as well as the brakes on each hub. I think there is some sort of control on the tilting mechanism being actuated by that cable. I think it is some sort of brake or friction mechanism. I bet there is a limiter in that center hub as to prevent over tilting too. All of this is just me guessing based on other research. The videos where amazing. Thanks for sharing neighbor!

Ttfn Ceeann

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Recumbent tadpole trike: Posts on Velomobilforum p.4

Recumbent tadpole trike: Posts on Velomobilforum p.4 In response to Wolf and Hein, First Wolf's comment. What I am aware of is that there are quite a few tilters that do not use a monolithic steering system and have in fact decoupled the tilt in order to get the system to be stable. The brake application to the tilt is in fact an effort to stabilize the tilt. I am just before work here and have very little time to comment but I will try to cite examples later. Below is a general view of the Aileron tilting trike made by Wayne Soohoo it is pretty obvious wher the trike tilts. He controls the tilt by using a brake released with the steering handles. This is what I based my thoughts on for the theoretical spaceframe tilter. Instead of a remote release I think something like a direct brake would work as well. These data where gathered from http://jetrike.com/prior-art.html#Kurvenleger There are a quite a number of swing arm designs at this site. The above is the c...

Recumbent tadpole trike: Posts on Velomobilforum p.8

Hello Hein, Titan Wolf, trike like (Martin?) and Stephan (shs2_de) It has been a couple of weeks since I was able to remark on what I have been doing with the idea of a tilting space frame trike and I have some things to share. I have built another new prototype of a tilting mechanism and have already come up with a new version. Interestingly enough my newest designs bears a great resemblance to what Stephan (shs2_de) worked on with his suspension system at the beginning of this forum file. It may be interesting to Stephan and others to see a modification of that suspension system. I have also spent a considerable time with my husband and a friend remodeling our 2 bathrooms as well as working overtime… Sigh real life… enough said on that subject. Before I much go on I want to address a couple of comments from Wolf. I read your comment on obstacles in the road and thought about that in terms of tilting and locking the tilt mechanism. First I think that a tilting trike (1 st te...

Recumbent tadpole trike: Posts on Velomobilforum p.5

Recumbent tadpole trike: Posts on Velomobilforum p.5 Hello Titan Wolf, Hein, and sheng fui, I think perhaps I will post the American version of this on my blog at https://dichotomyone.blogspot.com/ and post the German one here for ease of use by the mostly German viewers here at the Velomobilforum. It should be better for anyone who prefers German and the American version will only be a click away. Sheng fui will have to let me know if the translation is better with deepl than it is with google translate since that is what I last used for translation. Hein I think you had a point about lash. Without self balancing geometry that is exactly what would happen without a control system for the tilt. The comments below are also for you and anyone else that may be interested. Wolf I have been looking around and thinking about your note and have a couple of more comments. I am not sure I completely understand what you where getting at but I took a couple of things fo...

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