Hi everyone, not an April Fools prank type joke, but here's something close to that - the Sideways Bike http://www.sidewaysbike.com/ United States Patent...
I'd turned off posts months ago cause I couldn't take Philip's formatting and myopia any longer - my read, talented engineer who burnt out, didn't seem to be...
Hi All, I hope you don't think I have abandoned this Group. I haven't posted in a few days, because I have been working on wiring and lighting on the project....
Hi Cam, I saw the Lean Machine at Epcot years ago and it was the inspiration to design and build a tilting three wheeler. I researched everything I could find...
... Hi Cam, here's some info about the GM Lean Machine http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/tilting/message/918 it would be thrilling to see someone replicate...
Dear Phil.Welcome back I have added one sketch showing your Geometry at 45º tilt. It is not easy to study all the problems you may have, !º Track has a...
Hi everyone, here's an article by Royce Creasey with his theories in favor of a low C of G motorcycle. It's sort of the equivalent of a recumbent bicycle - ...
I'll take a start: 1) FFs are well known, in fact thats what scooters are. There are a few commercial versions like the Alligator, and lots of customs ( see...
Hi I have revamped the FTC in case some of the "Sliders" want to reconsider. As you can see you can insert a relatively long virtual king pin inside the wheel...
Hi I have added body to the tilted parallelogram and I believe that anybody could see that serious problems can arise when. 1º Losing road to tire friction ...
I have loaded in my photo album "Melchor Duran" a view of the TFC with the inside of the curve track widened by elongation of the arallelogram arms (In red)....
Dear Group, I am building a 2F3T TTW. The final weight is expected to be much less than that of a touring motorcycle. The riding position would be that of...
... Unless you are using unusual geometry that raises the front roll center radically, it should balance OK. I'd expect a lot of scrub and understeer in a...
Hi everyone, I just realized that not many you will know that Melchor Duran "chorette" was the translator of Tony Foale's motorcycle chassis design and dyamics...
This is extremely funny.Mitch. Where did you collect the information?. It is amazing to see that in this Global Culture of enormous communications power,...
Hi Keith go and have a look at; http://www.tiltingmotorworks.com/ your description sounds very like the set-up used there. At last we seem to be getting a flow...
After several days of hard work it seems that finally I got a reasonably good design fot this type of tilter. It has 1º Simplicity 3º Good rigidity 3º It...
There is a decent size text field that describes each picture that you can fill out. If that isn't enough room, write a link in the picture description to the...
Thanks Aaron, I have uploaded one picture of the last FTC Variable Track. Unfortunstely the pictures here are too small to appreciate details. I hope it could...
Hi Chorete, You wrote; Increasing the track only to the inside of the curve, does not have any inconvenience, I ride/drive mostly in curvy mountain roads. I...
Thanks Aaron, I have uploaded one picture of the last FTC Variable Track. Unfortunstely the pictures here are too small to appreciate details. I hope it could...
Hi, Melchor You can put a bigger picture up in the Files section than the Photos section.I'm so glad you are thinking about variable track.I am also thinking...
Hi All, Yesterday I shot a 10 min video of the TBX3 in action. The wonders of MPEG-4 compression and Google's re-compression have rendered it a bit pixely, but...
... Nice work Tom, It would be great if you could get someone else to video the trike from a distance going through its paces. Its hard to even feel when you...
Hi. I have added two more CAD renderings to the File FTC 1.rar. Hey Tom, you have extremely nice roads to test the FTC tilter. I have mixed feelings about your...
Hi, Melchor and group- I can't open the ".rar" files. Sorry to put you to too much trouble, but could you convert them to jpegs, bitmap, gif or other more...
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