Happy New Year to you too Roy! (and of course all others reading this!) the compulsory training is not only a good idea, but it also ensures the alertness of...
Hello Harry and Group, Happy New Year to you all! Recently I have made some modifications to the CAD drawings. The looks of this design will definitely need...
Arthur: The max roll moment in a power-tilted tilter with zero steering is the product of the weight on the wheel(s) being lifted times the moment arm to the...
... From: afonda19406 <afonda@...> ... I notice that when you first decide to initiate a tilt by lifting the inside wheel, you have to wait while...
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... snip ... Oh, yes. I forgot about the rear wheel. However, it is still proportional to track width, so a nArrow will roll very slowly initially, whereas a...
... snip ... Oh, yes. I forgot about the rear wheel. Half asleep. However, it is still proportional to track width, so a nArrow will roll very slowly...
... Why would you not fabricate the arm from sheet, and improve torsional stiffness? This has been done for motorbike front (hub centre steered) and rear swing...
... going ... torsional ... steered) and ... should help ... axis more or ... in a way ... Hi Arthur, You mean something like the Bimota Tesi suspension arms? ...
Bob: Hmm. Methinks the reasoning (below) is not solid. You don't "initiate a tilt by lifting the inside wheel;" you initiate a tilt by actuating a ram. Up to a...
... From: afonda19406 <afonda@...> ... I don't think the rams have anything left to push from once a wheel lifts, so I just took a look at an imaginary...
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Hi Alex and All, ... I think it just takes a little time to get use to any new vehicle to trust it if people are smart! After reading the previous post on MC...
Hi Bob, the flaw in your way of seeing the problem lies in the static or quasi-static approach you take. you disregard the mostly dynamic process, where...
Hi Jerry, the problem with natural countersteering vehicles, is the fact, that in an evasive manoeuvre, the rider can (and believe me some will) turn the...
just some quick points... 1 when countersteering the effect of gravity is not important in leaning the mass,because the mass is powered to tilt by centrifugal...
... negative, most riders ALWAYS inject a certain amount of steering torque. the wheel is "sort of" free to caster, since neither the vehicles lean angle nor...
... wrote: [snip] ... This is all to do with field of vision when focussed on the road some way ahead IMO. That's why I wanted my mate's opinion after his...
... and I ... Television ... some ... the ... I think we have one problem here, we all seem to understand how this looks in reality. it is not the frame as...
... From: Alex <zieher@...> ... Could you provide a reference for this? Perhaps it only pertains to advanced aircraft? My bro-in-law has written about his...
Bob Stuart
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... needs to apply a small torque in steady state leaning,but the state is still FTC. For example... it would be possible to resiliently load the steer pivot...
Hello Group, Happy New Year and I hope all is well with you and yours. Roy, I received your e-mail and it's ok to share any photos I have sent you. The...
... the past ... convenient no, it's like most people operating cars. most VFR flyers aren't that good, IFR flyers are even worse, they're mighty good at ...
... [Re driving while looking through atilting screen] ... Yes - the fun element will be a great incentive to users ... Agreed Alex, but is this not just a...
... Thanks very much Tom, we have members of the Feet Forward group who don't believe that such a machine was made, so I just want to show them that it can and...
... Without knowing how much weight is where (including the weight of the control system components themselves as fitted) you can't design an electro-hydraulic...
... ... or a stepper motor on the windscreen wiper to create a inverted pendulum that stays vertical right in front of your eyes..... Do I already hear people...
hehe, we can even go further and "untilt" the driver so we go a long way to tilt an untilting vehicle and re-untilt the tilted driver... was that right? it is...
... [Re TTW screen frame problem - or not?] As the only man on the planet with a TTW in production Harry - how many drivers have complained to you about the...