This tilting recumbent looks like a blast to ride

[Greens]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCJp4tU4TE4&mode=user&search=

You get to keep all your wheels on the ground too.

[Chalo]

DougC wrote:
>
> Greens wrote:
>
>
> > And then there's the internal combustion version called "The Carver". Quite
> > a bit different really. I think BMW is going to start selling them in the US
> > soon.
> >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyQOOY4A-_c
>
> The Vandenbrink Carver is one tilting-trike vehicle that IS designed
> properly: the steering is conventional front-wheel, and the leaning
> mechanism is mechanically separate (and electronically controlled, so
> it's automatic).

The Tripendo separated its tilt and steering mechanisms, with one
stick controlling each of them. I don't have any understanding of
whether they were easy to learn, but they didn't _look_ easy.

> Leaning trikes are rather useless, at least as far as bicycling is
> concerned. It doesn't make sense to go to great expense to built a trike
> that can corner well, when (during bicycling) most of the time you are
> riding in what are essentially straight, or very-nearly straight lines.

Trikes have intrinsic advantages over bikes with regard to their
potential to carry heavy or bulky cargo, and their ability to cope
with slippery surfaces. I imagine that even leaning trikes maintain
these advantages over bikes to some degree, while having major ride
quality benefits over non-leaning trikes. So they're not useless, at
least in principle-- but it's tough to justify the cost of exercising
those advantages.

Chalo

[Chalo]

Greens wrote:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCJp4tU4TE4&mode=user&search=
>
> You get to keep all your wheels on the ground too.

It's reminiscent of the late, perhaps even great German Tripendo
trike:

http://tripendo.com/EDEFAULT.htm
http://tripendo.com/clips/trip_downld_eng.mov

Chalo

[joseph.santaniello@gmail.com]

On Sep 12, 9:28 am, "Greens" <p...@adelphia.net> wrote:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCJp4tU4TE4&mode=user&search=
>
> You get to keep all your wheels on the ground too.

Sure looks like fun on that sweet go-kart track with all the tight
bends. I wonder if it is as much fun out in the world where high-G
turns aren't as common.

Joseph

[Greens]

"Chalo" <chalo.colina@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Greens wrote:
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCJp4tU4TE4&mode=user&search=
>>
>> You get to keep all your wheels on the ground too.
>
> It's reminiscent of the late, perhaps even great German Tripendo
> trike:
>
> http://tripendo.com/EDEFAULT.htm
> http://tripendo.com/clips/trip_downld_eng.mov
>
> Chalo
>

Nice. I'd never heard of that one. It doesn't even have a video on youtube.

You can get plans for the Jetrike here.
http://www.jetrike.com/

And then there's the internal combustion version called "The Carver". Quite
a bit different really. I think BMW is going to start selling them in the US
soon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyQOOY4A-_c

[Greens]

<joseph.santaniello@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Sep 12, 9:28 am, "Greens" <p...@adelphia.net> wrote:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCJp4tU4TE4&mode=user&search=
>>
>> You get to keep all your wheels on the ground too.
>
> Sure looks like fun on that sweet go-kart track with all the tight
> bends. I wonder if it is as much fun out in the world where high-G
> turns aren't as common.
>
> Joseph
>

Good point. Probably is a snooze on the average road, but it looks like it
could start a new olympic sport on special tracks.

[joseph.santaniello@gmail.com]

On Sep 12, 11:26 pm, "Greens" <p...@adelphia.net> wrote:
> <joseph.santanie...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:1189616513.628308.195340@y42g2000hsy.googlegr oups.com...
>
> > On Sep 12, 9:28 am, "Greens" <p...@adelphia.net> wrote:
> >>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCJp4tU4TE4&mode=user&search=
>
> >> You get to keep all your wheels on the ground too.
>
> > Sure looks like fun on that sweet go-kart track with all the tight
> > bends. I wonder if it is as much fun out in the world where high-G
> > turns aren't as common.
>
> > Joseph
>
> Good point. Probably is a snooze on the average road, but it looks like it
> could start a new olympic sport on special tracks.

A parking lot with cones could be fun too.

Joseph

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On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:37:43 -0000, Chalo wrote:

> DougC wrote:
>>
>> Greens wrote:
>>
>>
>>> And then there's the internal combustion version called "The Carver". Quite
>>> a bit different really. I think BMW is going to start selling them in the US
>>> soon.
>>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyQOOY4A-_c
>>
>> The Vandenbrink Carver is one tilting-trike vehicle that IS designed
>> properly: the steering is conventional front-wheel, and the leaning
>> mechanism is mechanically separate (and electronically controlled, so
>> it's automatic).
>
> The Tripendo separated its tilt and steering mechanisms, with one
> stick controlling each of them. I don't have any understanding of
> whether they were easy to learn, but they didn't _look_ easy.
>

Local owner I spoke to said it wasn't more than a week before he
steered/tilted without thinking about it.