[trikes] steering design question

John Murray john_murray at sympatico.ca
Thu Oct 28 16:39:35 PDT 2010


A trike that you might want to look at:http://www.frankmobility.com/duet.php
I tried a similar one and found the steering terrible at any speed.... 
so try to test ride before buying...


On 10/28/2010 2:21 PM, Alex Richards wrote:
> My wife was recently told she should use a wheelchair due to her ME. As keen cyclists we'd like to continue, and so I've been looking at designing an attachment for her chair which would convey it to something like a Vietnamese cyclo rickshaw
>
> http://www.rfleming.net/diarypics/Huecyclo2.jpg
>
> Only thing I'm not certain about is the location of the steering pivot; should it be between the wheels like a kids soapbox kart, or behind the wheels like another conversion I've seen?
>
> Any advice would be gratefully received.
>
> Alex



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