Hi all,
Whilst pedaling my local roads early morning getting my exercise, I stumbled upon a jogging stroller being thrown away along the curbside trash. I took it apart made a quick pull behind trailer with its two wheels, pulled my daughter & doggy around the neighborhood for a few laps, then disassembled it since I really dont need a pull behind trailer & I had no space to store it. Then the item got thrown in my car trunk (not much room left for more bikes in my house, per wifey...lol).
I'm thinking again about a new project using the fairly stout axle piece that the two wheels plug into. The wheels have 1/2" (13mm) axles. I think they are solid enough for my purposes?
With the bicycle front wheel removed this piece can be mounted to a piece of wood and a U-channel. U-channel bolts to the fork with a long 3/8" bolt w/spacers. I've been successful with this U channel mount on '2-High' my motorized tall bike. I'll probably need to find a piece of throw away 2 X 4 (18" - 19") to mount across the aluminum axle, u-bolt to the wood and then bolt up to the u-channel.
I know this isn't how tadpole trikes steer (or cars or that matter). There will be no Ackerman compensation or centerpoint steering.
As a kid, I built an 8' oak motorized go cart using 4 skateboard trucks, 8 sticky skateboard wheels (Kryptos) w/ foot steering & a 2 hp Briggs for power. The go cart handled like a race car with that foot steering, low center of gravity and awesome traction (had to hold the sides very tightly on hairpin turns or risk getting thrown off).
If this steering arrangement works somewhat well on an upright bike with its higher center of gravity, I might then construct a DIY, No Weld, recumbent platform around this very simple steering arrangement.
Here are some mock-up pics with the aluminum posts left uncut (they will get cutoff).
Cheers,
-Lowracer-
Whilst pedaling my local roads early morning getting my exercise, I stumbled upon a jogging stroller being thrown away along the curbside trash. I took it apart made a quick pull behind trailer with its two wheels, pulled my daughter & doggy around the neighborhood for a few laps, then disassembled it since I really dont need a pull behind trailer & I had no space to store it. Then the item got thrown in my car trunk (not much room left for more bikes in my house, per wifey...lol).
I'm thinking again about a new project using the fairly stout axle piece that the two wheels plug into. The wheels have 1/2" (13mm) axles. I think they are solid enough for my purposes?
With the bicycle front wheel removed this piece can be mounted to a piece of wood and a U-channel. U-channel bolts to the fork with a long 3/8" bolt w/spacers. I've been successful with this U channel mount on '2-High' my motorized tall bike. I'll probably need to find a piece of throw away 2 X 4 (18" - 19") to mount across the aluminum axle, u-bolt to the wood and then bolt up to the u-channel.
I know this isn't how tadpole trikes steer (or cars or that matter). There will be no Ackerman compensation or centerpoint steering.
As a kid, I built an 8' oak motorized go cart using 4 skateboard trucks, 8 sticky skateboard wheels (Kryptos) w/ foot steering & a 2 hp Briggs for power. The go cart handled like a race car with that foot steering, low center of gravity and awesome traction (had to hold the sides very tightly on hairpin turns or risk getting thrown off).
If this steering arrangement works somewhat well on an upright bike with its higher center of gravity, I might then construct a DIY, No Weld, recumbent platform around this very simple steering arrangement.
Here are some mock-up pics with the aluminum posts left uncut (they will get cutoff).
Cheers,
-Lowracer-
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