Bike Design

Thx -- nice start! You taught design?

Ron

Good looking website, Bill.

I hope you'll be having some of your FWD information on there soon.

Best wishes.

Lewis.

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I have had many People ask about some of the bike designs in my class. Well, ok, I've had two
people ask me.

I am learning to make web pages. Try this one. There are a few photos of bike and one of the first
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Bill,

I was very impressed with your SWB tandem you were showing off at the Eureka IHPVA rally back in
'94. Its there a reason you never marketed it?

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I have had many People ask about some of the bike designs in my class. Well, ok, I've had two
people ask me.

I am learning to make web pages. Try this one. There are a few photos of bike and one of the first
Human Powered Helicopter.

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Why I don't market. I'm not a industrial type.

It would be great fun working as a consultant.

We have the 2 wheel drive tandem in the garage. It has many nice qualities, but I don't think that
it has any market value.

I did stumble on a lot of other things that are worth developing. I am keeping quiet until I get
something patented.
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Not much to say about Front Drive. They are a different breed of bike. You can ride all day without
using your hands. In fact, I can get on the tandem and ride away, up hill, with my hands in the air.

The only thing to remember when building one is to use twice as much trail as you would for a rear
drive bike.

I have a chapter on building a front drive without welds, in my book. I have photos of such a bike
around somewhere. I can put it on the web site if you wish.
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The stroker on the tandem is riding in high heels! How cool is that?

Hi, Bill, thanks for your reply.

The concept of the FWD fascinates me and I built a protoype last year but _almost_ couldn't ride it.

A couple of my friends tried it and rode it just as if it was their own bike.

I got to thinking about it and realized that these two guys are excellent Unicycle riders, while I
am the world's WORST Unicycle rider. So maybe it has more to do with equilibrium than meets the eye?

Anyway, when I finish my current LWB project, I plan to have another try at the FWD.

Kind regards.

Lewis.

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Not much to say about Front Drive. They are a different breed of bike. You can ride all day
without using your hands. In fact, I can get on the tandem and ride away, up hill, with my hands
in the air.

The only thing to remember when building one is to use twice as much trail as you would for a rear
drive bike.

I have a chapter on building a front drive without welds, in my book. I have photos of such a bike
around somewhere. I can put it on the web site if you wish.
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Next time you build a front drive, try using more trail. Other ways to help are to use a steel rim
on a 26 inch or larger wheel. That Moment of inertia of the wheel adds to the "control spring". The
swap meet bike would have been better if I had turned the fork around backward.
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hillbiker said:

Thx -- nice start! You taught design?

Ron

Although Prof. Patterson is retired, the web page from his class remains. <
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Bill Patterson said:

Not much to say about Front Drive. They are a different breed of bike. You can ride all day
without using your hands. In fact, I can get on the tandem and ride away, up hill, with my hands
in the air....

I presume moving bottom-bracket front-wheel-drive, e.g. Flevobike, is being referred to here, not
twist-chain front-wheel-drive, e.g. Zox20.

Tom Sherman - Various HPV's Quad Cities USA (Illinois side)

That's true, sorry that I wasn't clear. My reference to front drive was moving bottom bracket bikes.

The design class is scheduled for this Fall In San Luis Sbispo. Lets hope that it goes.
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