carcentric
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| posted on 1/6/05 at 03:41 AM |
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Weight on front wheel
Short of building one and putting it on a scale, how would you estimate what proportion of the vehicle weight would be on the front wheel/tire?
Would it be:
- 33% because there are three wheels?
- 50% because it carries the front half?
- less than 33% because of the weight behind the rear axle?
- . . . ?
M D "Doc" Nugent
http://www.carcentric.com
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Fred W B
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| posted on 1/6/05 at 05:44 AM |
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Would depend a lot on what the driver weights..............
I would be very suprised if it was more than a third of GVM, without rider
Cheers
Fred WB
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carcentric
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| posted on 1/6/05 at 06:25 AM |
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Oops . . .
I should have asked for the percentage of GROSS vehicle weight (with two passengers and a tank of gas) and not the vehicle weight (empty).
At max load, assume 250 for driver/rider, 130 for passenger, and 70 for fuel. The vehicle itself would weigh . . . about the same as a book Locost?
M D "Doc" Nugent
http://www.carcentric.com
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smart51
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| posted on 1/6/05 at 06:59 AM |
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are you talking lbs or kgs?
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carcentric
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| posted on 1/6/05 at 04:20 PM |
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Lbs or Kgs
quote:
Originally posted by smart51
are you talking lbs or kgs?
Lbs.
Weed is the only thing I've heard of measured in Kgs here.
M D "Doc" Nugent
http://www.carcentric.com
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Rorty
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| posted on 2/6/05 at 05:38 AM |
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I would guess the trailer with its jockey wheel wound down would handle better than that trike.
What would happen to the front contact patch with even the smallest of throttle openings?
I wonder if it runs a slippy diff. 
Cheers, Rorty.
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Northy
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| posted on 8/8/05 at 08:57 PM |
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Does anyone know of any good designs for a VW rear end based trike?
Cheers,
Graham
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robinbastd
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| posted on 8/8/05 at 08:59 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Northy
Does anyone know of any good designs for a VW rear end based trike?
Cheers,
Surely a contradiction in terms!
Ian
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Rorty
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| posted on 8/8/05 at 09:26 PM |
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I would agree; there is no such thing as a good VW trike design. The two distinct forms of transport should never have been amalgamated into
the one vehicle.
There are a couple of firms here in Aus that make/hire some gargantuan stretched fibreglass three-wheeled VW behemoths, so obviously others think
differently. Which I suppose, is what makes the world go around.
I once asked a toothless neanderthal bearded bloke what he admired most about his VW trike and he told me it was because it was individual. Funnily
enough, the other eighteen VW trike drivers in that McDonalds carpark all said the exact same thing.
Cheers, Rorty.
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