Recumbent trike - homemade, almost no welding - 6000KM across North America
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- Опубликовано: 12 июн 2012
- NEW: The trike was used by James and Paul as they made their way across North America, from Midland, Ontario, Canada to San Diego, USA. Here is the link to their trip:
• The Whole Trip
The trike is made out of two identical kids bikes (for the front) and a mountain bike for rear (wheel, gears, suspension), handlebars, brake and pedals. The bikes were bought at garage sales.
The aluminum frame is from a metal supermarket
The seat is made following the plans from here
sites.google.com/site/recycle...
but I didn't weld anything on it, just reinforcements and screws.
The only weldings are at the front wheels, the plate that holds the wheel axle.
All of it was done in my basement, the main tools were a cordless power drill and a hacksaw. 
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Nice clear pictures and no thumping heavy rock music!
Simple and strong design well done.
I am thinking along the same lines using bike parts, but using second hand ladders as a cheap supply of aluminium, reinforced in the necessary places.
Thanks for sharing your ideas / design.
This is brilliant. I have a couple of old bikes, scrap metal, and access to a cnc laser. I've been riding a Rans tailwind for years, and want another recumbent so the wife can ride with me. Thanks to your video, I think I'm going to try and make one myself, so my other half can ride the rans and I can ride along!
check out atomiczombie they has plans fer da diy trikes n stuff.
one of the neatest videos I have seen yet, your common sense yet passionate about building it decent...I say "LIKE" thank you for the inspiration sir! :)
That's a nice build. Congratulations on a job well done.
Nice work. I really like your steering kingpins. It's a clever way to use old parts and it looks like it works quite well.
Meus parabéns pelo exelente vídeo. Na minha opinião a melhor demonstração do paço a paço de como fazer um trike ; sem enrolação. Gostei das adaptações que você aplicou para desenvolver o mesmo . Tipo quando você utilisou dois garfos para adaptar como as mangas de eixo.
Excellent lateral thinking and use of available stuff. Like the intro music too!
Perfectly crafted. Soo beautiful.
Clever way to get the steering central to the wheel's contact patch. I laughed because it tickled my brain to see such an elegant answer. My complements...
Nice !! Looks similar to my own home made tadpol.
FANTASTIC JOB!!!
I think it is always better when you can disassemble something, not to banish welding totally either. Nice music.
Nice work bro
Good job, really very good, I want to make one for me. Congratulations.
Smart design 😎great video
No esta mal la idea de hacer la bike de retazos de otras, exelente idea. Saludos
nice diy spindles and knuckles for steering
Well done...!!!
Best wishes from Bavaria / Germany. :-)
Sometimes, how simple can it be nice project
two thumbs up....one for the bike one for the music
güzel proje çok beğendim...tebrik ederim. sizi.👏👏👏👏😎😎😎😎
Da vero geniale!😍disegno engenieria
Nice Job..!!
What a great presentation of build details. Kudos.
What always bothers me about these trikes is the super long chains. I looked for a front-wheel drive, but the build was so over-complicated. Sigh.
Look at my front-wheel drive, no weldings python trike, not that hard to make. It has a lot of details, could be useful.
Very clever!
brilliant....
very cool ;)
Great Job! What did you use for the camber and caster angles on the
front wheels?
Found help on the web, look for Ackermann steering geometry. Don't have it anymore, but it's easy to find.
Just found this. I LOVE those front wheel mounts. MUCH sturdier than the ones in the plans I am trying to build a trike from. I am stealing your design. How did you figure out the angles to mount them at?
Kind of late with my reply, but unless you already did it, look for "Ackermann steering geometry", it worked for my trike
That's cool! The back part is ready made from bicycle or custom made?
The blue rear fork is from a mountain bike, the blue luggage rack is from an office chair, and all the rest is made
F@cking Brilliant!
This is awsome. I have a dream project of walking- (maybe biking-) "wagon" wich in my mind look like your bike but the opposit when walking. One wheel in front when walking and two wheels in the rear end, steering on the front wheel... well - it's complicated to explain but I would like the thing to be a three wheeled stroller for walking/kickbiking, carrying cargo, tent, two small dogs, kitchen, toilet-thing, a chair and camping bed kind of transformer and a mono-wheel-possibility for the hardest hiking parts.... from Sweden to fisterre in Spain, living outdoor the whole time
Check out my other trike, one wheel in the front
ruclips.net/video/AAJj0wO5qBE/видео.html
Not as bad as it looks. It can lock the rear wheel, and because the weight is on the front, it starts sliding. Only when I speed up, otherwise can't complain.
nicely made trike. I just wonder why you chose that music on your video
参考になります！
I never keep count of miles, so I can't answer to that question. I take it for a ride once in a while. Didn't have to service it yet, other than pump air in the tires.
What function has the top construction (the two tubes mounted between each wheel and center of the frame) at 01:00?
The music is Un Sospiro frank Liszt
cool how does the front wheels handle off road if you do any? do they snag on bumps and small holes and such?
Didn't take it off road, then I sold it. You should ask James and Paul (see the link in the main posting), they did almost 6000 Km.
I would be interested in detail instructions on how to build my own do you have anything like that?
I don't have any instructions, I built it on the go, based on the available parts
your axis wheels have not bended for now?
Like the music . What is it please
I don't know. Found it on the web and I liked it.
Rear brake only? That’s got to be tricky to get slowed down!
The axes didn't bend yet. I used rear wheel axes, they have a larger diameter than the front wheel ones.
How did you made and installed front wheel hub?
I used two metal plates, one on each side of the fork, see at 0.21 in the video. I cut a tab at the top middle (two vertical cuts, about 2"), bent it out, until it was vertical, then I welded the gap to the plate to make it stronger. Same for both plates. The axle goes through both plates, and it's secured by nuts, has a really good grip.
I know this is a long shot, but is there a website or plans for this build?
No plans, just a lot of web research then I put it together. I may be able to find the site for the seat, it had every detail needed to build it.
Hey thanks for the reply. I have the seat website, just wanting to build a trike without welding and I like yours. Just hard to figure out all the steps from just looking at the bike. I have about 10 bikes I could use for parts.
i like welding but its not always possilbel ,you can find an other way like you have,GREAT , sorry about my spelling lol
A ton of designers making this sort of mistake in their trikes... leaving all the weight of the vehicle to be supported by one end of the axle, I am referring to the front wheels of course, the classic fork... while may not look as good ... it protects the axle from being bent by sharing the load on both sides of the axle...
Ill not say a thing about the paint color
+Robert Ostman There are not many trikes and almost no comerical trikes with front forks, I have 5 trikes, all homebuilts all with front wheels mounted on one side, they all have 20mm axles and 3.5"wide hubs, never bent a wheel or axle, even at speeds up to 40 mph.
+Rodney Shears while it is impressive to go up to speeds of 40 or near it... such config is not as strong as the one that I have mentioned... but, perhaps if one was to use some titanium or some expensive alloy... I have been designing one and while the current material being considered is an alloy I tend to believe that I may end up using titanium... the assembly that I have made is supposed to be though as nails, in fact I think that it is a smaller version of what is found in jeeps and ATV's... if you see the one in the video looks as if it will bend, if not already.... but any way going back to topic... the front fork config that you mention as not being used by most business, has a lot to do with aesthetics... I don't think that they are using prime materials... I believe that they are using common materials instead of what I perceive is the long lasting one... any way... I am impressed with the speeds that you mention
+Robert Ostman first rule of engineer, don't invent a solution where a problem doesn't exist... I never heard of a bent axle on this trike config.
how much does it weight?
I like it wery much, weight55Ib, is it about 22kg?, please answer my sombody.
How much money ya got invested in it ?
About $350. I had a lot of spare parts from older bicycles, that's not included in the cost. I bought 2 used kids bikes (they were twins, the bikes were identical) for the front side of the trike. I also bought materials for the main body (everything aluminum) and the seat
@@KeepOnSailing well if that's all you got in it other than time good on ya. Looks awesome. Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing....
The owner of those kids bikes had twins, I was just lucky.
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Sorry, about the axles bending, 25 seconds in freeze frame clearly looks bent. There's no way this will hold up to bumps unless you weigh 100# max... AtomicZombie's web site has plans that clearly discuss how these will fail over time. That's why no bicycle ever had only a single sided fork...
They are not bent, it's just the picture. The axle supports are the only pieces welded, and they are manually made. The tools I used are the hacksaw and the hand power drill, there may be an angle to the fork, but it doesn't matter, as the final adjustments made the front wheels parallel. The axles are not bent, at least not yet, and I weigh 180lb. I found on other posting that the BMX axles can take the load. I didn't have them, but I used rear wheel axles, good so far.
www.rei.com/media/ss/ed0c783d-0ffd-4491-9f14-d8d4194e21a2.jpg Also there are many motorcycles with only one trail arm. #fail
Christopher Nutt hmmm, A) I said bicycle, not motorcycle. B) the point of the matter is his build, not what's out in the marketplace anyway. Bottom line is that a stock rear wheel axle will not hold up over time to much in the way of bumps since it can't handle that kind of shock load since by design, it was engineered for support on both sides... You can either take my word for it or call Cannondale, but they are definitely using a beefy axle on that bike, likely a solid steel one (his stock axle is hollow). #NOTAFAIL
B Miller you said "that's why no bicycle ever had only a single sided fork" I proved that wrong. Don't be butthurt. I understand why the majority have two sided forks, but you can't say single sided forks don't exist.
B Miller Here is a link to James and Paul, they are on a trip across North America, James is using my trike. They modified the rear wheel with an electric motor in the hub, but the front is the same, just bigger wheels. They passed 1000Km on Oct 15, no axles bent yet. They plan on going more than 4000Km, and if they don't bend by the end of their trip, I'd say that's a real test.
www.tumbleweedproject.com/
About 55lb.
Almost 25kg.
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no way you went across the USA with that thing...
and yet... they never finished the trip
They set out to reach the Pacific in California, and they did just that. An amazing trip, follow the link.
@@KeepOnSailing yeah on a greyhound bus
Too flippin complicated ! Why such a long dangerous chain ? I need simple front end drive plans. Not rocket science !
Check out my other posting about the python trike I built, front wheel drive. Not so easy to ride. Now I'm building another rear wheel drive trike.
Дикарь. Было два колеса , малый вес и возможность крениться. Стало три (сопротивление качения увеличилось на 1/3 , вес на 1/3 увеличился и крениться НЕ МОЖЕТ .) ГДЕ ВЫГОДА ?
ВЫГОДА для человека, который имеет проблемы со здоровьем, с балансом.
Ничего себе инвалид !!!
Руки вижу заняты и работают.
Ноги тоже.
Осталось, как я и предполагал, что это для инвалидов "на голову" (от частых опрокидываний) !!!
Колёса на поворотах кренятся, а сама трёхколёска НЕТ !!!
ТАКУЮ схему только инвалид "на голову" может считать передовой и прогрессивной.
Надо бы наоборот сделать, что бы колёса оставались вертикальными (пятно контакта наилучшее), а сам седок и трайк под ним кренились бы.
Тогда центр тяжести не выйдет за пределы треугольника образованного точками опоры (касания) колёс с дорогой.
И Ваш инвалид с нарушенной ориентацией сможет не задумываясь безопасно ездить.
Правильно. Идея заключается в том, чтобы инвалид чувствовал себя не инвалидом. Он тоже человек.
Что тут для инвалидов-то ?
Смотреть со стороны ?
Как инвалид без ноги или руки, слепой или полностью обездвиженный сможет наслаждаться этой трёхколёской ? Ответь по существу .
Я знаю человека, у которого есть руки и ноги, но имеет ограниченное чувство равновесия. Врачи обнаружили, что он является недействительным. На обычном велосипеде он не пойдет, а на 3-х колесах - да.
That's so screwed up!