You don't need a calculator to do this sort of simulation. You can use a few wooden rulers, some pushpins and a corkboard. The virtual pivot will move as the trapezium distorts, however. On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 11:21 +0200, Jaculus wrote: > Hi > > I have spent all sunday near the Optima site at the exhibition at > CycleVision and suddenly realised a way to reduce the trail of a > Python. > > The idea is verry similar to the way the suspension of the (no longer > in production) Optima Cobra. A trapezium has virtual turning axles, > witch in some configurations can be outside the trapezium. > > A slight problem is that trapezia have two virtual axles. I started > doing math in oocalculator and found a workable trapezium where both > virtual axles coincide. > > The trapezium i found has the following configuration: rear 21, sides > 18, front 10, this trapezium gives a virtual pivot 11,4 outside of the > trapezium. > > If I would aply this idea to th Jaculus i would reduce trail from > about 20, to aprox. 9. > > I hope to give people ideas, since the comming months i won't be able > to construct another python. > > I do have the spreadsheet for trapezium calculation, but since > mailinglists don't like attachments, i do not atatch it to this mail. > > Milan > ============================================================ > > 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. > > ============================================================ > -- George Durbridge +61 3 9481 3500 +61 409 413 945 ============================================================ This is the Python Mailinglist //www.freelists.org/list/python Listmaster: J�rgen Mages jmages@xxxxxx To unsubscribe send an empty mail to python-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field. ============================================================