Sorry Mate my last post was a reflection of some recent insanity . [running out of pills] What I am trying to explain is that if you stretch a resilient ...
... Though neither has been ridden or crash tested yet, like the Clever? http://tinyurl.com/zu5wd Ian www.voyager03.co.uk It's worth considering that your...
Has any thought been given to the designing a very narrow 4-wheel leaner with the front and rear wheels tracking. I'm thinking of it as a design exercize which...
Greetings Everyone . I didn't realize what prolific posters you all were until I wound up in the hospital for a week and came home to find a month of reading!...
Greetings Gents . You have hit on one of my all time favorite subjects . tank slappers! Or, as they are known around here . the dreaded wobbles. The first...
... in to the files section. ... Jonny Phillip here.... If the tilt axis projects above the front contact patch ... what happens is very interesting. The...
... Not so Walter, I am - but we need to get Tilters accepted first by getting them into production using readily available (i.e. affordable for us and thus...
... Keep taking the tablets! ... Having put a lot of effort into keeping our geometry unaltered as we tilt, right up to 50 degrees...maybe not just yet! ... ...
Hi Jonny, ... it ... front ... track ... stable as ... other ... Except for the X-Link system, that doesn't need a complex force tilt control system! ... the ...
... I define tank slappers as large amplitude, out of control wobbles, not the general trail induced wobbles we often see in racing, like head shaking. ... I...
... upload ... tilt ... then ... moves ... the ... Phillip here BOB.... But with your system [Manual countersteer] the rear pod can capsize independently of...
I wrote: snip ... controlled ... the ... Wrong, wrong....wrong! The TTW failure video shows the fruit of an Italian professor's labour, i.e. a (too narrow)...
snip ... Are you talking about the naked Gyro capsize or Cossalter's TTW? ... Maybe you could do some high grip, high speed cornering tests to demonstrate that...
... Hi Phillip, Jonny again - presumably the FTC wheel carves a smoother path without scrubbing...? I'm interested to know how much, if any, weight transfer...
... Hello again - My question is in the Files section and called "_Roll-axis-through-CoG.jpg" (it's the top JPEG underneath the "X-Linkage" folder Cheers Jonny...
... Pardon me for somewhat cutting into a conversation, but I could not resist: I am a newbie to this group, and have been interested in a passing way in...
... Apparently hived off from ProDrive to it's designer So they can build Carvers and Notso's maybe? Roy p.s. Who else but academics would call their product...
(p.s. Who else but academics would call their product Clever ! ) For some reason, the first several times I read about this vehicle I mentally pronounced its...
Talking of academics, here is a clever little academic exercise to demonstrate a point made earlier in the discussion between Arthur and Phillip about FTC: It...
Arthur Middleton <artmidd@...> wrote: <snip...> ... I've had a few days to mentally churn over this discussion in my head (finals week) and think I've...
Jonnny, Have you read Tony Foale's article (Some Technical Aspects of Tilting Trikes) in our files section yet? It has some input on the effects of tilt axis...
Comments inserted below. ... I agree with the reasoning to a point. On a motorcycle, there is a gyroscopic counter steer effect, in addition to the centrifugal...
Arthur said: If so, the gyro effect reduces the CS generated by the tilt, so the wheel is somewhat less than free to caster. Aaron: I agree and think that this...
Arthur said: If so, the gyro effect reduces the CS generated by the tilt, so the wheel is somewhat less than free to caster. Aaron: I agree and think that this...
Hi all!!. Back from my last Computer crash. As it is impossible to read all the messages in my box. let me say something about an old FTC, now that this...
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