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Three wheeled cars and trikes mostly moved to having the two wheels in front for stability when cornering. Same reason why 3 wheeled all terrain vehicles were t

Three wheeled cars and trikes mostly moved to having the two wheels in front for stability when cornering. Same reason why 3 wheeled all terrain vehicles were taken off the market. Otherwise, cool idea.

DocTomoe 1y ago
See also: Reliant Robin. Obligatory Top Gear link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQh56geU0X8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQh56geU0X8
- bcraven 1y ago
  On January 10th 2016, Clarkson came clean in his article in the Mail on Sunday and admitted that the whole thing was rigged. Clarkson wrote, “You may remember: I drove it (the Reliant Robin) around Sheffield and it kept falling over. Well now’s the time to come clean. A normal Reliant Robin will not roll unless a drunken rugby team is on hand. Or its windy. But in a headlong drive to amuse and entertain, I’d asked the backroom boys to play around with the differential so that the poor thing rolled over every time I turned the steering wheel” https://www.reliant.website/topgear.shtml https://www.reliant.website/topgear.shtml
  - DocTomoe 1y ago
    And yet, several of my friends located the general Sheffield area agree that while the video was a bit over the top, generally, Robins tended to do that. That Sheffield is a surprisingly hilly city with sometimes hard turns meaning you have auto-acceleration on hills down, and often are a bit faster than you'd like, probably doesn't help either.
  - voidUpdate 1y ago
    IIRC they also put a big metal plate in the roof to make it even more top-heavy
CalRobert 1y ago
I was so excited to try a cargo bike I made sure to rent a Cristiana bike on a holiday to Copenhagen with my pregnant wife. Then I crashed while turning with her as a passenger. She was displeased. We now ride a two wheeled urban arrow. Three wheelers seem incredibly unstable except perhaps for ones with independently pivoting wheels like the babboe carve
- tokai 1y ago
  While super unstable three wheelers are good for very heavy or large loads. Like moving a refrigerator. Start stop city traffic with +100kg load is easier on three than two wheels. Must say I never liked riding the Christiania bikes myself.
  - econ 1y ago
    The old ones in NL easily take 300kg. You just have to learn not to attempt sharp corners. A normal bike also allows you to jerk the steering wheel 90 degrees at high speed.
  - Steltek 1y ago
    It begs the question, are you carrying extreme loads, like refrigerators, on a daily basis? If not, then this is like buying an F-350 when you're mostly taking your kids to school. If so, then maybe none of these are the right design and you might want to look into something like a cargo trailer.
    - tokai 1y ago
      Well yes a ton of people are ferrying multiple kids plus their school bags everyday. They are far from common enough to get compared to F-350s. Nobody would commute on them daily if they didn't have a recurring need to haul something. They are far too expensive to buy as a beater.
      - lostlogin 1y ago
        > Nobody would commute on them daily if they didn't have a recurring need to haul something. They are far too expensive to buy as a beater. I really can’t tell, are you referring to an F-350 or a cargo bike?

DocTomoe 1y ago

See also: Reliant Robin. Obligatory Top Gear link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQh56geU0X8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQh56geU0X8

bcraven 1y ago
On January 10th 2016, Clarkson came clean in his article in the Mail on Sunday and admitted that the whole thing was rigged. Clarkson wrote, “You may remember: I drove it (the Reliant Robin) around Sheffield and it kept falling over. Well now’s the time to come clean. A normal Reliant Robin will not roll unless a drunken rugby team is on hand. Or its windy. But in a headlong drive to amuse and entertain, I’d asked the backroom boys to play around with the differential so that the poor thing rolled over every time I turned the steering wheel” https://www.reliant.website/topgear.shtml https://www.reliant.website/topgear.shtml
- DocTomoe 1y ago
  And yet, several of my friends located the general Sheffield area agree that while the video was a bit over the top, generally, Robins tended to do that. That Sheffield is a surprisingly hilly city with sometimes hard turns meaning you have auto-acceleration on hills down, and often are a bit faster than you'd like, probably doesn't help either.
- voidUpdate 1y ago
  IIRC they also put a big metal plate in the roof to make it even more top-heavy

CalRobert 1y ago

I was so excited to try a cargo bike I made sure to rent a Cristiana bike on a holiday to Copenhagen with my pregnant wife. Then I crashed while turning with her as a passenger. She was displeased. We now ride a two wheeled urban arrow. Three wheelers seem incredibly unstable except perhaps for ones with independently pivoting wheels like the babboe carve

tokai 1y ago
While super unstable three wheelers are good for very heavy or large loads. Like moving a refrigerator. Start stop city traffic with +100kg load is easier on three than two wheels. Must say I never liked riding the Christiania bikes myself.
- econ 1y ago
  The old ones in NL easily take 300kg. You just have to learn not to attempt sharp corners. A normal bike also allows you to jerk the steering wheel 90 degrees at high speed.
- Steltek 1y ago
  It begs the question, are you carrying extreme loads, like refrigerators, on a daily basis? If not, then this is like buying an F-350 when you're mostly taking your kids to school. If so, then maybe none of these are the right design and you might want to look into something like a cargo trailer.
  - tokai 1y ago
    Well yes a ton of people are ferrying multiple kids plus their school bags everyday. They are far from common enough to get compared to F-350s. Nobody would commute on them daily if they didn't have a recurring need to haul something. They are far too expensive to buy as a beater.
    - lostlogin 1y ago
      > Nobody would commute on them daily if they didn't have a recurring need to haul something. They are far too expensive to buy as a beater. I really can’t tell, are you referring to an F-350 or a cargo bike?