[trikes] steering design question

[John Lewis]

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 
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> http://www.rfleming.net/diarypics/Huecyclo2.jpg
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> 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?
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> Any advice would be gratefully received.
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> Alex
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> Sent from Samsung mobile
>   
Have a look on the Christiana trikes site. Some drawings and ideas there 
might help. They have a wheelchair carrying trike. Also google 
wheelchair bicycle attachment should throw up some info.

http://www.christianiabikes.com/english/uk_main.htm

Hope this helps.
John Lewis