Hello George,Yes, the Hipparion is the only other neg. trail delta trike I know and it is definitely older than the python trike. It is linked on my page and I already had some mail conversation with the finnnish designer Esko Meriluoto: He could not imagine that a two wheeler with neg. trail is rideable at all.
The geometry of the Hipparion and a Python Delta is quite similar, but the Hipparion is distinguishable trough its steering-damper (which Esko regards as a must) and its massive frame construction (no idea why, maybe its the roads in Finland?).
Cheers, Jürgen. On 05.09.2007 11:39, George Durbridge wrote:
On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 22:47 +0200, JÃŒrgen Mages wrote:Pictures, there are a lot. Instructions few. Maybe I should do a trike side on my page, where all info is gathered.Good idea. In the meantime, there is a good drawing of a Python-like trike at http://personal.eunet.fi/pp/davinci/proto2eng.html The Hipparion isn't strictly a Python, because the first prototype Hipparion was made before the first Python. But it's a negative-trail, centre-steered delta trike, seemingly pretty well developed.
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