Friday, November 20, 2009

Low steering..

Front suspension, well I'v seen them a lot, but not like this. This is a idea that came from center pivot suspension. But instead of using center pivot hub I made one idea of using regular hub and using linear arms to replace the regular fork. This setup would be more sturdy, but because of many joints and bearings, definately will be more heavy, but what ever we wish to accomplish, ther's an idea behind it.

Few words about the design, hub is joined into arms by 4 bearings, and the arms are joined into control arms by aother set of bearings, control arm is joined into frame by bearings. The result is that when the arms are moved back, the other one moves forward, hub turns into desired direction and there we have a steering. I could say this is a low side steering or arm-steering.

Offcourse when upside fork is removed, we loose the upper frame where we can attach the transmission, but instead of putting it into above the wheel, in this idea the transmission is below the wheel, actually on side of the wheel.

Actually Im not sure is this any where good way to build a steering, but one advantage is that it is slim, very low in construction, but probably the heavy side because of the bearings and arms, at least its more heavy than regular upright fork.

Model is very simple, just to test the idea and see what is there to go wrong, and without testing, hard to say anything more about it.

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