Yet Another Cycling Forum
General Category => Freewheeling => The Dark Side => Topic started by: fd3 on 20 May, 2019, 10:40:26 am
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One of the things I found really odd about riding with hamster bars was swinging the tiller about to steer. The Windcheetah steering concept seems more intuitive to me. I saw this on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2etDedPYRI
Which seemed to me should work for a recumbent bike
I am surprised that this hasn't been tried on bikes before. Is it a question or weight, complexity, cost or patent?
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One of the things I found really odd about riding with hamster bars was swinging the tiller about to steer. The Windcheetah steering concept seems more intuitive to me.
:o
It takes all sorts, I suppose.
(FWIW on any bike I don't think about what the bars are doing, I think about what the wheel attached to them is doing. In as much as I think about it at all, which is only something you need to do while you program your muscle-memory to ride the bike.)
I saw this on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2etDedPYRI
Which seemed to me should work for a recumbent bike
I am surprised that this hasn't been tried on bikes before. Is it a question or weight, complexity, cost or patent?
Good question. Other than being unintuitive ;) I don't see why it shouldn't work.
I've seen upright bicycles with a steering wheel before, although normally it's just operating as a handlebar in the usual way. The one in this first photo would appear to be functionally similar (rotating in a vertical-ish plane to steer), without the free movement at the universal joint:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/802751/bicycle-collection-steering-wheel-sale-vintage-bikes-penny-farthing
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I've seen bikes that had joysticks before, but they were push = left , pull = right type, and I believe handling was not good. I think a Windcheetah joystick would make balance difficult and not offer enough leverage.
In my opinion, handlebars cotribute more to balance and steering dampening than we imagine - I can ride a bike with handlebars no-hands, but not a bike without handlebars...
...What do you mean, you've never tried that?!
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I've seen bikes that had joysticks before, but they were push = left , pull = right type, and I believe handling was not good. I think a Windcheetah joystick would make balance difficult and not offer enough leverage.
In my opinion, handlebars cotribute more to balance and steering dampening than we imagine - I can ride a bike with handlebars no-hands, but not a bike without handlebars...
...What do you mean, you've never tried that?!
I'd go with the above, the dynamics of a trike are different to a bike for obvious reasons. A joystick is a solution for a problem that does not exist on a two wheeled bent.