Hi everyone, if I remember correctly, Piaggio bought the Italjet company a couple of years ago. One of the last prototypes released was the Italjet Scooop (...
... steering links!.... theres a lot of unsprung weight up front, which is why they dropped it I guess. Don't overlook all of this talk of greater stability...
Looking forward to hearing about it. Have fun... ... steering and shifts in bodyweight that guide a conventional bike. On three wheels you just lean and...
The also have quite a complex set of linkages to attach the steering handlebar axis to the steering rod below the suspension pivot. It resembles a folding...
Many thanks for the patent link Mitch Agreed on the unsprung weight of the patent, also not an easy design to keep rigidly under control - lots of bits...
Hello Glenn, Front suspensions on TTWs is currently a favorite topic of mine. My first TTW (http://www.tiltingmotorworks.com) is a double parallelogram with a...
Hello Glenn, Front suspensions on TTWs is currently a favorite topic of mine. My first TTW (http://www.tiltingmotorworks.com) is a double parallelogram with a...
Hello folks, I'm new to the group and new to the tilting theme of transportation. I am interested in constructing a trike 2 front wheels / 1 power rear. As I...
Hi Bob (Jonny here) I like the simplicity of a single damper parallel wishbones layout shown in TTW005-400.jpg in my folder in the files section but it's not...
-- Hi Howard[ Phillip here]. What sort of tilter do you actually want? The first thing to consider is how it will be controlled. 1] like a motorcycle[tilting ...
First lets drop any notion of a "sliding pillar"... wont work. It is fundamentally innefficient ard poorly equipped for its job and its also not like a Morgan...
A very general answer about unsprung weight for you and another question. Unsprung weight includes any elements that move when the suspension allows tire...
Hi Phillip, What caught my eye was your vehicle; the way it moves through a turn, smooth. I believe I want to build a trike using your system. I did not know...
... my vehicle is arranged. It is all off the local tip and is designed as a prototype for easy alteration. Simple steer is only to do with the way that the...
A BMW opposed cylinder motor would be an excellent choice, either up front or mid engine, for low center of gravity. cost of course being a drawback..... :-)...
... We are supposed to stay off motors on this list, so perhaps we could just agree that engine sizes are considered sensible by the general public in...
snip ... Only when braking, but that applies to any tele fork arrangement. And to Phillip James ball spline. There are ways to get around it, such as using...
snip ... Given that the front suspension travel is shared between 2 wheels and a standard road motorbike has only about 100mm travel, I would have thought for...
-- Nice drawings.... If you incline the "sliding pillar" like a McPherson strut so that it just clears the tyre and use a shorter upper parallelogram cross arm...
... that he start at the beginning!. IMO the type of engine and its general layout is an important consideration in the overall design of the tilting...
Why so wide? With a single seater 48" wide you have no need to lean at all. Your balance should be fine just about all the time. At that width the fact that...
... Roy started out with the body and drive train for his nArrow as a given requirement, and has derived his vehicle from this. Whether his solutions are...
I'm expecting to take my first tilter beyond it's limits on a fairly regular basis in order to explore it's full dynamic range. The longish travel is to help...
Hi Phillip - see below... ... I did think of this (honest) but it's not shown in this sketch. Also though of moving the lower inboard pickup points outward to...
bobobo882002 wrote: I found that the stipulated engine actually ... Yeah, the guys who had to design stealth aircraft found the exercise surprisingly...
... shorter ... movement. ... Also though of moving the ... parallelogram but i haven't ... Morgan or Lancia front ends ... associate splines with ...er ... ...
... esteemed ... their ... before "floored" ... one ... Phillip here Bob.... "no singing allowed".... I thought.... but I just had to try it! ... 5/31/06...
Hi Aaron, Remember, I'm new. The first ideas that I had are changing rapidly. In time I'll get it to a point that will work for me. Just getting the different...
Hello Aaron, many thanks for that, what you say makes sense - that was the biggest issue I had with a parallelogram front suspension - without the sliding...
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