... It doesn't need "a week's training to get launched off its outriggers". It took me about half an hour's training before I succeeded at my first attempt. I...
... Bigger was for gearing, more was to avoid breaking rails. However, rubber tires interlock with any surface roughness, so they do gain traction with more...
Hi everyone, one the "But... as we were taught in school traction/ friction is NOT dependent on surface area. Traction depends on the coefficient of ...
... A tire designed for tilting with a round section is quite good at avoiding hydroplaning. On bicycles, no useful difference was found between slick and...
... traffic. This is the point I believe. "Doing laps of a GP circuit" would not challenge anyone [ I suspect] P ... and ... solo ... way ... entire ... of...
... tyres in not valid. These are specially designed to grip due to creating a "sticky" interaction between the tyre and the road by the heat generated in...
... Tyre contact patch (CP) area supports the weight of the vehicle. It deflects as it rolls and the hysteresis loss in the rubber (partly) heats the rubber. ...
... It should also allow softer tires to have the same wear rate as the harder, narrower tires due to lower weight per unit area loading. Using softer tires I...
This tilter was built as a "proof of concept" from a 110cc mini-chopper by someone who intends to scale it up to full size and now wants to sell off his demo ...
Why is it that people rail incessantly about how rollover prone SUVs are, yet won't apply that same argument to Motorcycles or other MCS vehicles? Is it ...
... I don't know anything about psychology, but I think it is probably safer overall for a tall, narrow vehicle to go down and slide on one side than for a...
Thought I sent this a while back, was stuck in the drafts folder I guess. Aaron... Combining a couple posts, comments below. First a side note. HOV stands for...
snip ... It is not easy to control any wheel steered vehicle without traction. Hovercraft, boats, aircraft are possible alternatives when there is no ground...
... That's true, but a typical road bicycle tire, as well as being rounded, is much narrower than a car or motorbike tire and at a higher pressure. And also...
... assume that if you have two front tyres you have more grip than 1 front tyre. This is not the case. This is indeed "excessive extrapolation" In the...
Phillip here... now here is an ideal example of the "myth" Take this vehicle as shown. I will wager that this vehicle has less traction than it had in its...
... The result could be more or less grip even with the same compound as the front tyres could run lower pressure than originally, increasing their deflections...
Yes, true. Unfortunately for us though, traction isnt a binary issue. You cant assume that you will have it, or not have it. Patches of ice, snow, diesel,...
Phillip James <tiltingvehicle wrote: http://www.tiltingvehicle.net/xprize.html I have listened attentively and [so far] I find myself unmoved from any of my...
Regarding the grip of 2 vs one front. Example of two vehicles, one a conventional cycle and the other 2 F & 1 rear both having similar cg and wheel base and...
... Yup, been there, done that, got the T-shirt (and the video). It's easy if you leave the wheels down. Tricky if you flick them up and down and squeeze...
Tom, The problem with parallel wishbones or A-Arms isn't in suspension scrub when vertical. Its when tilted. At 45 degrees tilt if the vehicle hits a...
... Dave here: This statement about parallel wishbones is frequently made but is only a partial representation of the situation. This 'sideways scrub' is only...
Ok, you lost me. Let me see if I follow... You say when the body is tilted, the wheels motion in suspension is sideways with respect to the vehicle body, but...
... Dave here: I don't see why you dismiss the much reported improvements (I haven't ridden one either) that two linked front wheels give to a tilting vehicle...
... Dave here: Let me try a different tack... With parallel wishbones, the wishbones will stay generally parallel to the road surface no matter what angle the...
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