Paul's tilting Python trike ?

[paul_n]

Hi all

I came here looking for advice on building and ' improved ' FlevoTrike.

I then bought myself a very used/damaged FlevoTrike , and now have enough parts for assembly.

However in the mean time I have build a tilting Python trike that works very well

So I wanted tilting as I wanted a trike [ like the Flevo ] with a high seat 48cm and a narrow track 55cm

Initially the whole Python front end and the seat tilted , this had control difficulties and I stopped riding it [ dangerous ! ]

Then I realised I only needed to tilt the rider and so built the trike below.

So it can do this.

The seat is on a subframe and is attached to the main boom by 2 elastomers , stiffer than the Flevotrike one.

This means the seat tilts when needed , however as can be seen it stands without a tilt lock and does not appear to be dangerous to ride.

The only downside is that it cannot be ridden far no hands as it is difficult to control the tilt using only your feet.

As it has almost no ' learning curve ' compared to a FlevoTrike I can live with that.

all the best Paul

ps whole story here https://atomiczombie.com/forum/threads/ ... 33/page-51

[Vilijami]

Tilting seat only?
This means without-hand drive is very difficult!

[paul_n]

Vilijami

However not impossible

I can ride it easily with just a single thumb on the top of the handle bars.

I can now ride it small distances with no hands , e.g to look @ a text or take off gloves hat etc.

With my Python trike I could ride no hands for as long as I wanted and eat/send text read maps etc.

Of course I have not reached your 1000 km Flevo training period , Tilt#3 + Tilt#4 miles have about 500 km under their tyres

Paul