Bob and Aaron, I saw this site http://www.leanmotion.com/index_en.html This shows what I am after but it has not been put into production due to lack of...
After reading all the postings about this topic, it seems my own FTC experience is worth mentioning. Although very subjective, it seem to confirm what others...
Hoi Frank.......Dank voor de toegezonden message. Mijn beperkte kennis van de Engelse taal, gecombineerd met de afkortingen maken het erg lastig de strekking...
... if I am wrong] When you are stationary in your FTC vehicle any tilt input you make on the control will not be a stable simple steer input because the bike...
snip ... Frank, I think it is not the wheel per se, but the axis of the action required to differentiate for the driver the control required. So if you could...
... required to ... rearrange the sticks' ... aye, second that. I think the axis of steering action is much more important. but then again, every vehicle has...
... as you tip it to one side with no direct ... have too many projects ... Phillip: Same as when you drove the Carver.... there is no difference . Or at least...
... There is a difference, but not one where the vehicle feels unstable. The lack of direct feedback while not changing tilt is a little odd, and what there is...
... goes to make an input the initial movement of the control has to overcome the rest inertia of the tilting mass. The rest inertia of the tilting mass is...
... feeling ... but I ... Or at ... unstable. The lack of direct ... is when changing attitude ... a car steering wheel. ... feedback feels so different ... ...
... As Phillip has already pointed out, my trike does not really have "simple steer" because it does not return to vertical except while moving (that begins to...
[snip] ... else ... [snip] I think I know what you mean =), the F300 LifeJet suffered from exactly this problem as it was prone to enter a "dutch roll" (yaw & ...
... Hello Phillip, I disagree that "everyone else has a slow speed control problem". I do agree that all simple steer tilting vehicles do have a slow speed ...
... wrote: <big snip> ... Of course, we're now on our second model for production, as usual there will be no boring hoo-hah about it's brilliance until it is...
I have made statements [based on my observations] that simple steer needs the driver to feel some imbalance on his body and in the control when the control is...
... Phillip: Frank if I were you I would deliberately temporarily disregard all observations made below 10 and get the thing up to its dynamically stable...
... everyone ... I ... speed ... like ... same ... Hi Bob...... I [cant/can] comprehend your claims that a motorcycle/ pushbike has no low speed problems. I...
Comments and some ideas to think about below... bobobo882002 <bobobo882002@...> wrote: When you are stationary in your FTC vehicle any tilt input you ...
... The thing to note about FTC is that because the driver input is directly linked to the tilt it is unlike other vehicles. In a motorcar a lot of steering...
... You forget our shared intent - to provide a (commercialy viable) alternative personal transport, to diminish the waste and chaos of fat cars (90% single...
Hi Phillip, ... feedback ... is ... the ... some ... higher ... way ... body, ... center ... speed ... The CoG of a 1F1T type vehicle with an X-linkage is...
snip ... No fighting please. The aims of both are complementary, not exclusive. Ideally, Roy (and others) gets a narrow TTW accepted in the marketplace....
Someone please go teach these guys to tilt. Youd have thought that with two motorcycle guys on the design team theyd have thought of that... but perhaps the ...
... With that much width tilting is superfluous. OTOH, as it is a novelty car, they could have tilted just for fun. Then made it narrow to give some purpose. ...
Im not familiar with the Avon brand tires and so figured they were motorcycle tires. Regardless, you can get cycle tires wider than the 180s and 200 they are...
... I didn't look closely at what they are actually using, but they would be silly to not use wide car tyres for this if not tilting. Also, bike tyres are not...
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