[python] Re: faired Python

Annwyl Rhisiart,
i owned a Flevo-Trike some years ago, and i did not like it because it wasn´t a good feeling to ride it. I had a problem with every little bump in the street, because it effected the steering and made the trike steering away from my route. 
Since this i didnt wanted to have a trike again.
I wonder if a leaning trike behaves like that too. I think it woudn´t because a backwheel can be liftet whithout effects to the steering. 
Is that right ?
Last year i had a test ride on a stein-trike (austian manufacturer) and loved it, but i couldn't test it on a rough path. It has no leaning, but the frame drifts in the suspension a little, that makes it possible to lean a bit. And its light, has a prfect suspension and you can have much fun with it, only the price is high. 

Now the Idea of having a trike again grows more and more.
Let's see what the summer brings, if i have time and i feel like, maybe i spend some time in the workshop ... 

I like Wolfgang Bion´s Mambo, seems to be a great bike.
And Wolfgang lives not far away, maybe he lets me see his trike.
I contacted him last summer because of his folding Kajak, maybe he remembers me ? 

Viele Grüße,
        Stephan


Rhisiart Gwilym schrieb:
Clearly we think along similar lines for fairing FWD bikes, and I've been pondering this for quite a while, with many possible designs run up.
My Mark 1 Python is a two-wheeler, but of course I've worked from the first with the knowledge that it's always possible to put a two-wheeled hinterteil on it, so I've always considered it interchangeable into a trike.
I've also been pondering for some time which sort of leaning trike design that I prefer, and have a simplification of Bram Smit's and Henry Thomas's ideas waiting in my queue of things to do. So if/when I ever get to making the trike hind part, it will be a leaner.
First things first though: get the bike tweeked till it's really comfortable for my preferences, and painted up so I can show it around, and get fluent in riding it, and then start with the fairing ideas. I can think of an alternative back end after all that's done -- or abandoned as undoable, as it might be with the fairing. I might have to build another trike to be a harsh-weather velo, perhaps like Wolfgang Bion's 'Forelle', which also uses the flexy foam for body panels. 

Cofion gorau i chi Stephan,     RhG


Hi,
Jürgen, you should know better. Wasn't it you who blamed all the people who said that a python-kind of bike would be unrideable ? 

Now, let us see. Im shure there are many more Ideas than mine.
And a soft shell fairing seems to be a good answer to the question how to wrap a center steered bike.
I would try to do a seperate front and back part and use the ability of the material to bend at the inside of the turn and let the to pieces slide apart at the outside. 

Rhisiart, pleas allow just one question: How many wheels has your bike ?

Greetings from sunny Germany, spring just arrived these days here,
Stephan


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