Thank you for sharing your research. You saved me several years wasted work on a trike and increased my chance of success by showing me 4 wheels are the more stable way to go. Glad I found your channel.
I do not recommend starting with 4 wheels right away. This is the most difficult scheme to implement. If you have little experience, it is better to start with simpler designs.
Rolling resistance won't be higher if you do it right. But you're right that it's more complicated, there will be more parts. As for the higher chance of getting a flat tire, that's debatable. If you make the front and rear tires the same width, you'll have a lower chance of running into something that will flatten the tire, because there will only be two real tracks from the tires, not three like a trike.
Extremely informative videos. The amount of experience you have with these vehicles is frankly astonishing. Thank you for sharing your insights, and I'm looking forward to more of your videos in the future.
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So informative and interesting! I wonder about a quad with non-steering wheels, and a very short wheel base. So, it uses brake steering, or pedal steering. Your left foot drives a left wheel; your right foot drives a right wheel. The point is that it's a lot simpler to engineer. You could also have two small rollers at the front and back in case of tipping forward or back.
I myself am not really happy with this video, so I will definitely make a sequel or a remake. As for the idea of control without steering - I am skeptical. I can very easily imagine a life-threatening situation, for example on a high-speed descent.
Its possible, you could arrange the wheels and frames like a flevobike i.e. a pivoting frame., With steering accomplished by pushing on handlebars. I expect someone has tried it 🙂
Thanks a lot for sharing this precious and complete experience and research. I which you success in finding a nice new workshop and get more of those ideas rolling ;). Perhaps contact Tim from Way Out West Workshop (also in Ireland ;) )... PS: I am not a pro of YT and maybe you get more views by adding music in the background, personally, I find it distracting and not very pleasant. I am nobody to tell you what to do though: do it the way you like/the way you can :)!
People forget so this is very good to remind everyone again and again about all of this things. The same story for 100yrs.
Thank you for sharing your research. You saved me several years wasted work on a trike and increased my chance of success by showing me 4 wheels are the more stable way to go. Glad I found your channel.
3 wheels are better, lighter, one less tire to get a flat tire on, less rolling resistance, easier to manipulate in tight spots.
I do not recommend starting with 4 wheels right away. This is the most difficult scheme to implement. If you have little experience, it is better to start with simpler designs.
Rolling resistance won't be higher if you do it right. But you're right that it's more complicated, there will be more parts. As for the higher chance of getting a flat tire, that's debatable. If you make the front and rear tires the same width, you'll have a lower chance of running into something that will flatten the tire, because there will only be two real tracks from the tires, not three like a trike.
Very informative. Thank you so much for sharing your experiences.
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Extremely informative videos. The amount of experience you have with these vehicles is frankly astonishing. Thank you for sharing your insights, and I'm looking forward to more of your videos in the future.
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Most interesting video whice explain why and how thing are desighned.
This documents like videos are excelent wai how to give young people know how with nice ballance of simple understanding and explanation with nice documentation of dead ends and why each succesfull desighn is better then previos one.
6:31 the mad lads of 'garage 54'. They make me chuckle 🤭
So informative and interesting!
I wonder about a quad with non-steering wheels, and a very short wheel base. So, it uses brake steering, or pedal steering. Your left foot drives a left wheel; your right foot drives a right wheel. The point is that it's a lot simpler to engineer.
You could also have two small rollers at the front and back in case of tipping forward or back.
I myself am not really happy with this video, so I will definitely make a sequel or a remake. As for the idea of control without steering - I am skeptical. I can very easily imagine a life-threatening situation, for example on a high-speed descent.
Its possible, you could arrange the wheels and frames like a flevobike i.e. a pivoting frame., With steering accomplished by pushing on handlebars. I expect someone has tried it 🙂
Gosh, I wish quatrovelos were road legal in the USA. We have strange laws where bicycles and similar vehicles have to have either two wheels or three.
Thanks a lot for sharing this precious and complete experience and research. I which you success in finding a nice new workshop and get more of those ideas rolling ;). Perhaps contact Tim from Way Out West Workshop (also in Ireland ;) )... PS: I am not a pro of YT and maybe you get more views by adding music in the background, personally, I find it distracting and not very pleasant. I am nobody to tell you what to do though: do it the way you like/the way you can :)!
soo great!..you hve to make dumbs thing to make views thx a lot
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