![]() ![]() I don't have a problem getting it in and out. The trike hasn't been weighed but it is certainly over 50 lbs. The windshield and roof pieces will be mounted on the midsection piece once it's done. My mirrors are eventually going to be mounted sticking out from the sides, positioned not to increase the height of the front section or interfere with my current method. The midsection piece will add some more steps once it is installed. Sometimes the front gets snagged(I will reduce the height slightly in the future) and I have to carefully massage it through, careful not to fallĦ) Carefully walk down each step until the rear bulkhead behind the headrest can't go any furtherħ) Rotate the trike 90 degrees back to original orientationĨ) Continue down the last steps and place the trike on the groundĩ) Pull window bars from between the steps and screen door, place bars in houseġ0) Lock the door, get in the trike, and ride off One of them was removed before I rented the place and I use it as a prop for the screen door by wedging it between the screen door and the stepsĢ) I place myself on the right hand side of the trike(facing in the front relative to placement of the trike with the trike facing the door)ģ) I pick the trike up by the seat frame, right hand at the front/right/bottom of the seat frame, left hand at the rear/left/top of the seat frameĤ) Rotate the trike 90 degrees clockwise(using the center of the frame lengthwise as the axis of rotation)ĥ) Carefully standing within the negative space in the mid section(due to absent midsection lid or "hood" piece), I carefully walk through the door with the trike. Well enough that I can get it in and out alone.ġ) I have bars on my windows(I live in the hood and need them). ![]() How well does it go through your doorway the way you planned? Trike Body Initial Drawing.jpg (52.28 KiB) Viewed 3607 timesģ:46amLooks practical. I'm hoping for a drag coefficient of 0.25 before the canopy and wheel pants are installed. This drawing also depicts it without mirrors, lights, signals, canopy with wind screen, NACA ducts for cooling, wheel pants, and vinyl wrapping(for coloring and uv protection), all of which will be features of the finished product, and depending on placement, as a combined total may or may not increase frontal area and/or drag significantly. Frontal area comes out to 0.60 m^2 rounded down to the 2nd decimal place. Each blue square in the graph is 100 mm and it was drawn to 1/10th scale(1 cm with a ruler = 10 cm actual). It will be getting foam padding around the edges facing the rider as well. If I get into a wreck, it is designed so that I won't become impaled or cut up by the lid piece it will fold/collapse instead. Velcro strips, hooks, and teflon straps hold the lid piece onto the body. It hinges forward, and removing it will allow me to fit the bike in and out of my 30 inch doorway by tilting it 90 degrees and standing with my body occupying the empty space that the lid piece would otherwise be covering, push the front through the door, then tilt it back at the turtle deck section. It has a hinge structure at the front that it slides into, but is not permanently affixed. ![]() This body is mostly finished but not yet mounted. ![]()
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