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Out of curiosity, can this geometry be used for building electric cargo bikes/trikes. I'm always on the lookout for geometry that gives the same tilting gravit
by nanomonkey 2y ago
Out of curiosity, can this geometry be used for building electric cargo bikes/trikes. I'm always on the lookout for geometry that gives the same tilting gravitational forces as a bicycle but with the ability to be stable when stopped, and this looks promising.
- ragebol 2y agoI don't think just geometry will give you any of that. Weight distribution and dynamics might.
- nanomonkey 2y agoHmmm...looking at the images the wheels rotate inward allowing a natural turn, while the center piece tilts in towards the center of the turn, so I think it does in fact allow you to tilt into a turn and thus be forced into your seat, the same way as a bike.
- CRConrad 2y agoThe geometry, with the front and rear axles turning on opposedly-angled tilted axes, looks identical to that of (the old four-wheeled kind of) roller skates. Swiveling the axles into a turn makes the whole thing tilt -- and conversely, tilting it swivels the axles so it turns.
- CRConrad 2y agoAnd of course, come to think of it, skateboards. Were those originally invented by nailing rollerskate trucks under a plank, or what? I'm fairly sure skateboards use bigger -- certainly wider -- trucks nowadays, but rollerskates definitely predate at lest the "modern" (i.e. post-1970s) skateboard boom... Just a WAG.
- spiderice 2y agoAre you not just describing a skateboard?