DichotomyOne

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...

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...

This is my third post and response round from the German Velomobilforum and can be found here or at https://www.velomobilforum.de/forum/index.php?threads/eigenbau-xyz-spaceframe-vehicle.33109/page-24 In response to Wolf and Hein, First Wolf's comment. I think that working the tilting into the Akerman steering plate found in below seat steering is an excellent idea. It would incorporate the tilting into the steering in a fixed configuration and allow the user to completely control the action using a "normal" steering action. 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. Hein, I admit I did not think about a lashing effect from releasing the tilt ...

First post to the Velomobilforum is about a potential tilting mechanism for the trike that a friend of mine and I imagined while chatting at work. See below. Hello everyone, first as can be seen I do not speak German. So introductions, my name is Ceeann and my forum name is ceeone. I am 56 ,female, and married. I seem to be in a minority for self builders but I have wanted to build a trike for some time and I have become enthused with the idea of building the spaceframe trike along the lines of the n55. From what I can tell this is THE forum for builders of the n55 type trike. As I have been absorbing the design for the n55 and looking at all the upgrades and modification all of the members here have been posting I have had a brain storm or two myself. First I would like to repost a build picture that Trikelike posted on 20.01.2017 I really liked this design for the cross member of the trike due to the inherent stability this equilateral trapezoid should show for ...

I am again looking at a DIY Tadpole Trike. Perhaps this time I can manage to do a little bit of writing without this system crashing and deleting my work.    I am going to make this particular chapter a part of the ongoing forum exchanges with the Velomobilforum online. This is a German forum so I believe I will post there in German and here in American. This way if someone on that forum wishes to view this in English they can and anyone viewing here at the blog can follow along. I will use a translation program to interchange. Google translate or something similar will be doing the machine translation since I do not speak German. https://www.velomobilforum.de/forum/index.php?threads/eigenbau-xyz-spaceframe-vehicle.33109/page-24 is where this conversation is currently being held.   This forum is the best I was able to find for working on the n55 space frame tadpole trike. The trike is a sport version of a cargo trike built in Europe for moving loads. S...

Ongoing Projects... AKA updates Continuing to work on the drill press table but Christmas, traveling to Iowa to visit relatives, cold weather, and supply issue have conspired to slow the work. I had to order more miter slot hardware and with the Christmas rush it took awhile to get here but as usual Peachtree woodworking came through. This is full sized miter slot channel with a t-slot for fixturing so it is worth the wait. Hopefully I can get more done soon and wrap up the drill table. I am revisiting the adjustable workbench to put a new and more accurately bored top on it. I have a jig made in England on a CNC machine that should allow me to get the accuracy I want. The accuracy and precision that was sadly lacking in my first attempt on the big adjustable workbench. I will eventually post pictures of the bench before and after as well as the jig and any issues with it. (Hey it took time to find a solution and more time to get all the stuff together... sigh) I am still ...

In this ongoing quest to set up our shop and make some tool boxes I made a bench top router table and here is the basic drawing and story about that.    I wanted a very basic router table with which to make some other tools, a drill press table, a finger joint fixture, and some router lock jointed drawers. I wanted it to be adjustable and quick. The lock joints I make need to be adjusted and fit correctly. The others need the same kind of adjustments to fit correctly. From this comes the next few projects... full router table with lift and possibly a thickness sander with a modified and expanded router lift.  I think this router table will do the trick for now.   These first three pictures show the general shape of the base of the table. It has a bench hook, grooves to mount the miter t-track. The side mounted t-track will secure the fence carrier. The second picture shows the structure of the back of the base. The third picture shows the cut out in the...