Steve's Leaning Wooden Recumbent Trike
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- This is a video of my tilting trike taken on the day it was finished. I had been around the block on it a couple of times and when my neighbour Stu came home on his bike. He agreed to take a video. The trike is "Steve's Recumbent Bike with a wooden frame" (modularbikes.com.au) meets "Vi Vuong's" delta python trike ( • Video ).
Putting my feet down to "hobbyhorse" is done a couple of times, this is quite normal on the bikes I make, but either not possible or not useful on a great many others. You get better balance and a lower centre of gravity and can also still push forward a bit with your feet on the ground.
Hope you enjoy it. The trike will be at upcoming ozHpv events at Geelong (September 1) and Wodonga (September 14 & 15). You can have a go or see if you can drag me off. (For details go to ozhpv.org.au)
Credits: Video shot and edited By Stuart Livingston.
Trike construction and riding: Stephen Nurse
My Website: modularbikes.com.au
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that looks the singularly simplest recumbent i've ever seen !
awesome !
You just psyched me out...
This is bloody brilliant!!! And you're in Australia! Yay. Please share your plans I want to make one straight away. I cant wait I have half a dozen old uprights I've been saving for a project like this. And out of wood, no mucking around with welding and other specialized jobs. Good on ya mate!
Love it❤
Simply beautiful!
An interesting machine. I'd have liked to have seen how you did the front steering. Perhaps you could do a short video of that too.
I like it.
I like the front
wheel drive on it.
Thank Robert, I like it too. Its simple and it works and the frame is a bit of wood. Regards Steve Nurse, Designer / Builder.
@@stephennurse7809🤔inspired by F1 plank 😂
It looks so strange when the rear wheels are on one plane and the front wheel is tilted on another.
Nice Trike!
I think the Russian reads "why 3 wheels" and the answer is "because I could". This vehiclee was made from an existing wooden bike which had frame problems. So not hard to build and I was curious. This 3 wheeler was simpler to make than the equivalent 2 wheeler - bottom bracket and pedals and 2 wheels replace 1 wheel, suspenion block, suspension pivot and rear triangle.
Regards Steve Nurse
Как зачем три ? Задние два представляют собой "аммортизирующую" подвеску, - за счёт рычага при переезде препятствия экипаж преодолеет лишь половину высоты или глубины препятствия, тогда как колёса - всю высоту, но с половинной нагрузкой!!! Подобный вариант, таким образом позволяет получить беспрецедентную проходимость при меньшем размере колёс - в связке они помогая друг другу заезжают на препятствия почти вертикальные "скругляя" траекторию экипажа, меняя вектор его движения, а не останавливая его, чего не сделает одно колесо, какого бы размера оно ни было.
Im toying with something similar but 24 in rear 20 in front . I would prefer a wider rear track but I guess you have a restriction on turning the front before hitting chain on tyre
The front of the machine and the general ride of the machine is just like my front wheel drive bike and there are quite a few videos of that on my channel and blog. Also, check out openbike.org/wiki/MonsterbikeFWD, Regards
Steve Nurse
stevenurseau absolutely brilliant this is Bill from England and I really like to know how you make this
Love some of your work stevenurseau. Does this trike offer any advantage over a bicycle?
Hi Alan This trike design makes for a very simple frame design, the mechanism is very simple and consists mostly of standard bike and unicycle parts but gives good suspension. If you're starting from scratch you don't even have to work out how to make a split in the frame for a standard rear wheel. Regards Steve nurse
Thanks Stephen. Have you narrowed down any particular tilting trike that you think might be commercially feasible? I was surprised to hear (from your report) that Tripendo had ceased production. It seemed like a winner answering the problem you identified of trikes rolling if cornering too fast. I am currently planning to build a tilting trike but have found it difficult to decide which style would best suit the Melbourne environs. The Tripendo currently remains the most appealing, though the Velo tilt would be appealing if it was clear that the rolling resistance problem they appear to have identified, was solved. Another clear winner though not a Trike is the PoB, Peregrin on Birk which it seems (with a strong rider) achieved an average of 64 kmph over 3min and 40 sec, which is not bad considering it was done on a velodrome where any wind would have been encountered both ways negating any possible wind assist. BTW, are you on FB or Google+?
P.S. The work of John Tetz also interests me though it's hard to find information on his trike.
Hi Alan, I replied to your comments on my other video, I am not pushing for commercial production of my trikes but may release diy plans at some stage, see my contact page at www.modularbikes.com.au/index.html and contact me more directly for more details
Это круто! А место похоже на Рай для вело-любителей :)
Your trike is very interesting. Can you slow down to a near stop and not tip over? If so that would be great for hills. How is the video so stable? Is the camera operator using a steadicam? or is the jitter that one would expect to see being smoothed out via software
Hi It really handles just like a bike and going up hills you can't rely on the 2 back wheels to support you. That said - when riding is is just a bit more stable than the equivalent bike - riding no hands is easier for example.
Regards
Steve Nurse
stevenurseau Oh, and I didn't answer the camera question. I think it was all shot on an iphone, anyway, my neighbour Stu was riding a racing bike the whole time he filmed it so no steadycam. Software I guess.
Regards
stevenurseau Thanks for the bike stability update. How about the camera. Was the camera operator using anything special to eliminate vibration or was it done with software?
bravo! genial!
The foot dragging instability around corners ruins the cool factor for me.
you could lenthen this to the point where you could sleep in it. the python design lends itself to even lower cg.. nice design.
Hi Joseph, the python is quite low and I don't think I'd be comfortable using one for practical transport. You are right, you could do a lot with this sort of design. Here modularbikes.blogspot.com.au/2018/02/beer-bike-on-road.html is one I built up recently, Regards Steve Nurse
Why the hell does the left rear wheel get farther back than the right rear wheel?
Its very simple and it just works is why! Possibly the easiest way to make a tilting trike or trike frame. Flipping the back wheels makes no difference. 2 wheels on a pedal setup on the back of a front wheel drive trike. Vi Vuong invented it and made the first examples I know of, see here ruclips.net/video/Jm4v9nDuvdo/видео.html
*Stephen* Thanks for the answer, I will philosophize on the subject. My comment is due to the principle that, in a turn to the right or to the left, the bike's behavior will change, since the base of support and the point of adhesion to the ground also changes, due to their different distance in relation to the front wheel.
Well so you say, but have you tried one? Philosophy is fine but when riding these machines I can't tell which wheel is forward by the trike's behaviour. For me its a virtual bike with only very subtle differences between bike and trike behaviour. Cruzbike have trialled this as well ruclips.net/video/HVx3aIePO00/видео.html regards Steve Nurse
have you worked on brakes..?
Hi Joseph, the trike in this vid and all the trikes I've made like it have 2 Vee brakes on the front. This keeps all the cabling simple and the front wheel is so far forward that the trike won't tip over. My latest trikes like this one ruclips.net/video/PaoU14o1yB4/видео.html have all the cabling running through the steerer tube which keeps things neat and aero. Regards Steve Nurse
Более того, сделав рычаг переднего колеса длиннее можно его разгрузить ещё... но это уже в немного другой подвеске.
I thought that wooden work
Boom boom tish! I like to say the bicycle doesn't know its broken. Regards Steve Nurse
I think the back end is brilliant. It reminds me of those Piagio MP3 scooters you can get with two wheels on the front. They used loads more components to keep both wheels parallel but lean with the bike. So did I on my three wheeler ruclips.net/video/T_0VECwOzWc/видео.html. Yours is dead simple. F***ing good job mate. (I have used asterisks here to disguise the word 'flipping' , which some readers might find shocking.)
Thanks Bob, your trike looks very neat and it looks like it does the job well. I didn't invent the wheel system but dragged it kicking and screaming towards something that can be considered useful. Vi Vuong invented it, here is his webpage with a few details and variations. en.openbike.org/wiki/~iLean I am building another trike using the system, and for me with several parts in stock its simpler than making the equivalent bike. See instagram.com/stevenurseau/ or modularbikes.blogspot.com/ for the occasional update.
Regards Steve Nurse
Should you not put this en.openbike.org/images/openbike/9/94/ILeanCargo.jpg on the front of a normal bike? Just replace the front wheel with this. You need to keep the original trail and height at the front end to make it balance like a normal bike - and some hydraulic brakes to keep it in line when you stop. This would just be a conversion of a normal bike which already has a frame, pedals, gears etc.
Hi, probably have enough on my plate! But it sounds feasible, have a crack at it. Regards Steve Nurse
Зачем 3 колеса?
waw 5 star
Dude you need a mix of shots, some do just FPV's, you do just ass shots, mix it up please, to give use a full view.
why offset wheels?
Hi Molomosk and all. The whole offset wheel thing is just about keeping the frame and the whole human powered vehicle simple. With this back wheel setup, the frame is a slightly modified plank of wood and does not have to split at the back to accommodate the wheel. The offset wheels produce suspension too, see hupi.org/HPeJ/0020/0020.html regards, Steve Nurse