[python] Re: Lean steer trikes
- From: "25hz" <25hz@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <python@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 21:04:09 -0400
Cool mods and while reading it, and with you mentioning how one mod would
affect the next, a performer trying to keep spinning plates on sticks came
to mind.
The free tilting trike woks pretty well too. You can't even tell it's a
trike. The Python delta I made felt just like the 2 wheel version.
http://fleettrikes.com/python%202%20delta%20final%20rear.jpg
I started sketching up a little more extreme tilting trike that had simliar
style tiller handle bars, but with a bit of a twist. The handlebars would
steer left and right, but by rotating them both forward or backwards, you
would change the tilting ratio so that you could push them forward to
minimize tilt at low speeds and high speeds, and pull them back further for
sharper turns at intermediate speeds. It would require more finesse on the
part of the rider, but it's nothing a person couldn't learn, I think.
> Tilting trikes delta is a subject I have a little bit of experience
> with. My first trike has now clocked up 1500k and after a few mods to it
> I am pretty happy with it.
>
> http://jetrike.com/jetrike-mods.html
>
> Nevertheless, one can never stop at one, and I have been playing around
> with all sorts of ideas for the next design, including a RWD (rear wheel
> drive) LWB (long wheel base ) tilting delta, and a tilting tadpole where
> the rider controls the tilt and the front wheels are free-to-caster.
> However my design goals are to keep the weight down, have full
> suspension, be able to transport the trike in the trunk of my car, and
> that it has a relatively narrow track -- which is challenging.
>
> So I recently had an idea for a tilting python trike. One with a back
> end similar to Jetrike, except with handle bars coming down the left and
> right side coming from the swing arms that would control the tilt. Like
> a python bike, the tilting trike rider would steer the front with their
> feet, but control the tilt with their hands.
>
> The question I have for the group, is do you think this would work?
>
> It would certainly be light, transportable, narrow and could certainly
> have rear suspension.
>
> -h
>
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----
============================================================
This is the Python Mailinglist
//www.freelists.org/list/python
Listmaster: Jürgen Mages jmages@xxxxxx
To unsubscribe send an empty mail to
python-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field.
============================================================
Other related posts:
