Comments on: IRS1000 Tilting Reverse Trike http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2008/10/24/irs1000-tilting-reverse-trike/ Motorcycle News for Positive People Fri, 25 May 2012 18:26:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Dave http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2008/10/24/irs1000-tilting-reverse-trike/#comment-256468 Dave Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:14:24 +0000 http://thekneeslider.com/?p=2818#comment-256468 I want one. As long as the front track is no wider than a normal bike, a tilting trike would be more stable, better in bad weather/poor roads and I'm sure would corner faster than a two wheeler. Only total experts (or nutters) can slide a two wheeler but one of these would slide on the limit rather (like a car) than grounding out and low siding. However, I do think many of the designs are over complicated and I believe the normal standard bike frame is probably not suitable - at least from the engine forwards. We need low mounted swing arms, hub centre steering (like a car) and anti dive geometry (like a car). But with the tilting suspension its a bike retaining all of the bike advantages and now many of the car advantages thrown in. Why do we have to remain wedded to the narrow thinking of the mainstream bike industry. Time to move foward. Dump the nasty tele forks and maybe one day we'll even get some powerful; but economical engines. Sorry that was silly of me. All bikes must have forks and slow speed (read heavy) gear boxes and thirsty engines. Its a tradition that can't be broken. Roll on Piaggio and Peugeot, et al. Hopefully you'll also get into "proper" bikes I want one.

As long as the front track is no wider than a normal bike, a tilting trike would be more stable, better in bad weather/poor roads and I’m sure would corner faster than a two wheeler. Only total experts (or nutters) can slide a two wheeler but one of these would slide on the limit rather (like a car) than grounding out and low siding.

However, I do think many of the designs are over complicated and I believe the normal standard bike frame is probably not suitable – at least from the engine forwards.

We need low mounted swing arms, hub centre steering (like a car) and anti dive geometry (like a car). But with the tilting suspension its a bike retaining all of the bike advantages and now many of the car advantages thrown in.

Why do we have to remain wedded to the narrow thinking of the mainstream bike industry. Time to move foward. Dump the nasty tele forks and maybe one day we’ll even get some powerful; but economical engines.

Sorry that was silly of me. All bikes must have forks and slow speed (read heavy) gear boxes and thirsty engines. Its a tradition that can’t be broken.

Roll on Piaggio and Peugeot, et al. Hopefully you’ll also get into “proper” bikes

]]> By: Will MacCormac http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2008/10/24/irs1000-tilting-reverse-trike/#comment-213013 Will MacCormac Sat, 21 Feb 2009 12:04:12 +0000 http://thekneeslider.com/?p=2818#comment-213013 Does the bike now stand upright on its own? I saw another reverse trike which seems to stay upright without a kickstand or lock (spring?) Does the bike now stand upright on its own? I saw another reverse trike which seems to stay upright without a kickstand or lock (spring?)

]]> By: Damodharan http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2008/10/24/irs1000-tilting-reverse-trike/#comment-185163 Damodharan Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:29:53 +0000 http://thekneeslider.com/?p=2818#comment-185163 Dear all glad to such type of Trike. Well jamesbowman Regarding the All wheel drive trike. I am design it and that speciality about the Tilting trike is it will tit like normal Trike and at the same time, power is transmitted to all the wheels from the common engine I am working on the design and I personally feel I can manufacture it for production with an additional cost of another 2000£ approx (on top of the cost of the bike model) Since I worked making trike and I have seen the few possible problem I had faced while making it and did look for the alternative solution for design All Wheel Drive transmission system. and also applying for patent for the design solution any quereis or any suggestion u can mail me to damo.r16@gmail.com Dear
all glad to such type of Trike.

Well jamesbowman
Regarding the All wheel drive trike. I am design it and that speciality about the Tilting trike is it will tit like normal Trike and
at the same time, power is transmitted to all the wheels from the common engine

I am working on the design and I personally feel I can manufacture it for production with an additional cost of
another 2000£ approx (on top of the cost of the bike model)

Since I worked making trike and I have seen the few possible problem I had faced while making it and did look for the alternative solution for design All Wheel Drive transmission system.
and also applying for patent for the design solution

any quereis or any suggestion u can mail me to damo.r16@gmail.com

]]> By: Nicolas http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2008/10/24/irs1000-tilting-reverse-trike/#comment-171027 Nicolas Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:54:45 +0000 http://thekneeslider.com/?p=2818#comment-171027 Well, if you want a vehicle that you won't lay down on the road, that doesn't need to put the feet on the ground to keep vertical while stopped, that makes the ordinary rider (I am one of them) feel good on critical surfaces, you may also want something to protect from the weather, and transport your special sandbag with comfort ... then get a car. Well, if you want a vehicle that you won’t lay down on the road, that doesn’t need to put the feet on the ground to keep vertical while stopped, that makes the ordinary rider (I am one of them) feel good on critical surfaces, you may also want something to protect from the weather, and transport your special sandbag with comfort … then get a car.

]]> By: B*A*M*F http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2008/10/24/irs1000-tilting-reverse-trike/#comment-170990 B*A*M*F Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:36:52 +0000 http://thekneeslider.com/?p=2818#comment-170990 Freeman, I won't debate you on that. However, there is a counter argument to that. A 1903 Harley Davidson certainly had capabilities in excess of many of its potential riders. Your garden variety sport bike can do things in the hands of a pro that the average person with a motorcycle endorsement wouldn't likely be able to replicate. I'm not willing to go utterly nuts on gravel on 2 wheels, but on 3, it's a breeze. Tilting reverse trikes make it a little easier for the ordinary rider to do extraordinary things. I don't see anything wrong with that. Freeman, I won’t debate you on that. However, there is a counter argument to that. A 1903 Harley Davidson certainly had capabilities in excess of many of its potential riders. Your garden variety sport bike can do things in the hands of a pro that the average person with a motorcycle endorsement wouldn’t likely be able to replicate.

I’m not willing to go utterly nuts on gravel on 2 wheels, but on 3, it’s a breeze. Tilting reverse trikes make it a little easier for the ordinary rider to do extraordinary things. I don’t see anything wrong with that.

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