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mudaphucker (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
looks like the nike car on gt4
TheDirtNinja (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Beautiful concept.
But I think I would shit my self if I was sitting so closte to the ground at highway speeds
balagecrf (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
like star wars :D
Jamesbowman777 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Thanks a lot I will look up your videos as I am interested in EV trikes, I was and partially still am considering building a reverse trike. I was going to build a LiFePo4 powered Bug-e and upgrade it for starters with A PMG 132 motor.
Finances are too tight for now I have a house to sell to aquire the capitol. In the interim I bought a Yamaha XT250 Dualsport 80mpg and fun to drive, but still dream of creating a track day type of leaning Reverse trike. Tired of ridiculous gas prices as well.
mshimek (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I'll look up the 'brudeli'. If you enjoy electric vehicles/trikes, I built an electric vehicle using a tadpole (reverse trike) platform. I have a series of EV videos on YouTube if you're curious.
I am at the University of Texas at Austin and am roughly 9 months away from graduation.
I think the crux of our misunderstanding comes from different difinitions of stabilty. I was thinking about stability from a system dynamics point of view because that's what I know.
Jamesbowman777 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
No offence meant I just disagreed with your statements. There is a video on youtube for a three wheeled reverse trike called a brudeli that you might enjoy.
Good luck on your doctorates degree in Mechanical Engineering as well, where are you attending if I might ask?
mshimek (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
While your qualifications are impressive, I have qualifications too (a master's in ME, working on my doctorate). In the end, I don't care about winning this argument. Neither of us work for Aprilia and it's their opinion that matters.
Jamesbowman777 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
"High side and low side crashes are due to traction, not stability."
Not true while both high side and lowside crashes involve loss or sudden gain of traction its the instability inherant in a motorcycle that causes the crash. Note that a car that loses traction does not slide under itself like a bike does and usually does not flip over its center of gravity sideways unless it has a narrow platform and high cg (closer to a bike). The fact that a bike leans allows the driver to counter this?
Jamesbowman777 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
"This is why 3 wheel ATVs were outlawed."
This had nothing what so ever to do with why three wheelers were taken of the market? They were an inherantly unstable platform due to the fact that during a right hand turn the forward momentum forces the unstable platform over where it has no support on the out side left hand side? With two wide spaced wheels in front the stability is placed correctly for the forces involved.
If the vehicle tilts this further enhances stability in a corner!
bowmanfamilyoffaith (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I was a stable element(Gyroscope) Operator/Technician aboard a battleship. I think I understand the principals of angular momentum and gyroscopic precession. It simply resists a change in direction based upon its mass, speed and the location of that mass relative to its diamater @90deg. You could easily make two smaller lighter wheels with less angular momentum than many motorcycles operating today. Giving motorcycles stability in a straight line and resists their ability to change directon. |
