Interesting, but it seems to me that the difference between lateral change in CoG and vertical change does not increase enough to improve roll stability. The...
Good points. The mech definitely is fighting nature, rather than embracing it. Still makes me smile -- so cartoony! Might it make more sense to have the inside...
With all due respect, I attended the University of Michigan in the Aero Engineering School, have a friend from there who worked on the UM Sun racer, and he has...
Looks more convincing than the Moller skycar. I think I'd rather trust http://www.skycarexpedition.com though. No reason why you couldn't put the wing on that...
... Watching this video again, it looks as if the CoG remains in the right place. Check out 0:28 to 0:31, the front view of the vehicle articulating. Outside...
LOL Reminds me of all the low-rider jumping cars except for a deferent purpose. Also reminds me of an article I read in Popular Mechanics when I was a...
There used to be an Australian company that sold a system for active roll compensation. Jim Blackburn had installed it on his Grinnall Scorpion. There was a...
Interesting, I like the narrowness of it but it seams backwards. Wouldn't it work better with the two wheels in the front as the steering wheels? With the same...
Yes the Film FX blocks are nicer to carve then anything I've ever used because of the foams density and consistency in texture. I haven't tried the new...
Actually, that trike is almost perfectly suited to the application, twisty races that are run on large flat parking lots. As soon as it was introduced to the...
Hi everyone, R.Q. Riley has been a noted vehicle futurist for decades and along with this he has offered plans for building a variety of vehicles. He has also...
I assume he means a 3- or 4-wheel vehicle: an interesting example: Alan Maurer's Tilting Trike, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCJp4tU4TE4 ... Hi everyone, ...
Mitch, Will be interesting to see how straight this new vehicle rolls under human power. Many human power trikes "snake" down the road, wiggling back and...
Mitch, Mr. Riley may be interested to read about these two trikes for research purposes, which help answer some of the "to tilt or not to tilt" questions for...
Hi Doug and group, I'm straining my brain a bit after you wrote this - ... I hadn't thought of this potential loss of efficiency. ( the things I say below are...
2009/11/6 Mitch <mitchcasto@...> ... It's certainly not torque steer in the usual sense that e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torque_steering uses. Not...
If the problem arose from the momentum of the legs trying to rotate the trike along a horizontal axis, the snaking would have the frequency of one leg. New...
I am really getting tired of having my posts chopped off above my sig and all the quotes. This time, we lost my second paragraph, too. I'm re-sending the...
Now as a daily bike rider, leaning 45 off center is not that rare. Even on the tandem, with a trusting stoker, that lean angle has been acheived, limited only...
... Mr. Physics would like to have a word with you. It's not a "Fail"(ure). Looking purely at physics, it indeed improves the rollover stability for two...
... Mr. Physics would like to have a word with you. It's not a "Fail"(ure). Looking purely at physics, it indeed improves the rollover stability for two...
That's easy: Just do both. You can design a non-tilter in your sleep. Heck, I have a design I'd lend you of a sweet chopper trike. Even a tilting HPV would be...
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