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    Digging through some ancient photos. DeltaWolf Fairing!

    I’d imagine having the aerodynamics of some European designs (being curvy and all) and 3D printing the body to be assembled together. Take the delta trike design and make it so the rear wheels fit into the back of this style of body, then take the front wheel and put it ahead of the rider’s...
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    A New Type of Vehicle

    After spending some time getting an idea of what the exterior body shell would look like, it occurred to me this isn’t the first time a type of vehicle used extreme streamlining to go fast: take the Shinkansen Note the nose area. Take the front car (it is not a locomotive since these types of...
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    A New Type of Vehicle

    There is a fundamental issue here which makes this matter difficult to understand, and even in Canada there is something to say about the weight of vehicles to the road’s durability. A well cited Wikipedia article on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavement_performance_modeling At the end...
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    A New Type of Vehicle

    The only reason why I won’t get the Darwin Award is because every single person who uses a velomobile daily doesnt. Here’s a good paragon: In other words, using common sense and slowing down to treat them like an inverted speed bump, or just avoid them where they are. On a bicycle it can flip...
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    A New Type of Vehicle

    At this point I can see you’ve completely gotten lost on the perspective you should have. Referring to the last paragraph of the guy I had just replied to, this entire website let alone the videos on YouTube of the great set of projects would be just as implausible if someone wasn’t crazy enough...
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    A New Type of Vehicle

    See though the fun part of this concept is the part of using bigger wheels. When you use 20” wheels most applications have the wheels below the cyclist. In fact you can visibly see in bicycles with the progression from small to big wheels that the cyclist is placed deeper between the wheels...
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    A New Type of Vehicle

    Some additional thoughts on the pothole problem: I currently drive a mid size Jeep SUV. Potholes are annoying as heck but often enough I come to have no choice but to go over them because that either means going over the yellow or the white. Of course I go over the white. But in a velomobile...
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    A New Type of Vehicle

    The important part here is that it is a smaller vehicle, meaning that since it is light it doesn’t take as much braking as a car but more than a bicycle to stop it. Other people have built motorized trikes like this successfully already, with none or some errors: Definitely not impossible...
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    A New Type of Vehicle

    Someone absolutely bollocks. But also someone who would be willing to make 20 trips of 50km (30 miles where I live) without refueling. Essentially I could go to a local Community College for 2 weeks (5 days per week) before having to refuel for 10 round trips. As for its niche, there is no...
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    A New Type of Vehicle

    In the case of exceeding 1000 watts, I’ve seen enough ebikes to figure out that a bigger wheel seems to handle the torque and power better. So having a 29 plus wheel was part of the method of getting a bicycle rim to survive. I originally considered a 29x3.0 mountain bike tire but other widths...
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    A New Type of Vehicle

    You and Radical Brad have a lot of good points! I did not say explicitly 100kg for a vehicle this heavy. In fact, I mentioned as soon as you exceeded this kind of weight you’d be getting into typical motorized vehicles that absolutely do need super wide tires. However, I was thinking about a...
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    A New Type of Vehicle

    Hello All! I am going to get straight to the point and talk about a new kind of vehicle that I have been thinking about. I suspect that if a vehicle constructed from hobby and bicycle parts which gives it features paralleling an automobile, it would solve a few problems in the dual-standard...
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