REQ: Reverse-steering bicycle

"Camel" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Hi there,

Does anyone know where I can get construction diagrams for
a reverse-steering bicycle? The kind you sometimes see at
festivals.

After Googling this to death, I have still come up with
nothing.

Many thanks, Tim

Construction diagrams? Probably not, as it is generally
found to be a bad idea. Pics and discussions:
home.earthlink.netindex.htmlOpen ↗
recumbents.comtopic.aspOpen ↗

Some 'bent trikes wannee.nle abd.htmOpen ↗
sidewindercycle.comindex.htmOpen ↗

How to build a RWS trike:
ihpva.orgrws.htmOpen ↗

HTH, and be careful

google for rws bicycke or rws trike

Pete

Pete said:

Construction diagrams? Probably not, as it is generally
found to be a bad idea.

Back in the Carter/Claybrook administration (how did that
idiot ever gain respect as a safety expert, anyway?), the
NHTSA built a backwards steering motorcycle. The idea was
that it would be safer if the front wheel wasn't burdened
with doing most of the steering and braking. Too bad they
couldn't find anybody who could ride the thing. A NHSTA
official (maybe Claybrook herself) said that maybe it would
work if they could find somebody who had never ridden a
normal bike to ride it.

Mitch.

"Mitch Haley" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Pete said:

Construction diagrams? Probably not, as it is generally
found to be a

bad

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idea.

Back in the Carter/Claybrook administration (how did that
idiot ever gain respect as a safety expert, anyway?), the
NHTSA built a backwards steering motorcycle. The idea was
that it would be safer if the front wheel wasn't burdened
with doing most of the steering and braking. Too bad they
couldn't find anybody who could ride the thing. A NHSTA
official (maybe Claybrook herself) said that maybe it
would work if they could find somebody who had never
ridden a normal bike to ride it.

Mitch.

It ends up being like a forklift. Excellent for precision
close quarters but bad at anything over jogging speed.

The USAF uses a low, big gokart size thing for loading
munitions on jets. Rear wheel steering. Maybe 15mph top
speed. Evil handling. Instead of the front end turning
*into* the corner, the back end swings out.

The venerable "Jammer"
wpafb.af.milvfe9.htmOpen ↗

After a while, some people got very good. Others never
quite got it.

It is almost impossible not to overcorrect. Partially
because of the incredible slop in the linkage, but also
partly due to RWS. Every once in a while, a new guy would
get thrown off. Slight turn, overcorrect, ocillations of
increasing amplitude as he tried to get it back under
control...The 70's models were 3 speed manual
transmission, and it would go in circles at idle until he
could jump back on.

I couldn't imagine it on two wheels.

Pete

Pete said:

"Camel" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Hi there,

Does anyone know where I can get construction diagrams
for a reverse-steering bicycle? The kind you sometimes
see at festivals.

After Googling this to death, I have still come up with
nothing.

Many thanks, Tim

Construction diagrams? Probably not, as it is generally
found to be a bad idea. Pics and discussions:
home.earthlink.netindex.htmlOpen ↗
recumbents.comtopic.aspOpen ↗

Some 'bent trikes wannee.nle abd.htmOpen ↗
sidewindercycle.comindex.htmOpen ↗

How to build a RWS trike:
ihpva.orgrws.htmOpen ↗

HTH, and be careful

google for rws bicycke or rws trike

Pete

Thank you Pete.