Can you help me design a more ergonomic bike for ponies, maybe with little horseshoes on the pedals? Should the handlebars also have like horseshoe-shaped depressions for the forelegs?
>>43276150I think when taking inspiration for ponified vehicles you should take a look at real life. There might not be a bike for equines but you surely will feel inspiration from whatever you find.
>>43276150Just add pedals to this
naturmobil (treadmill). Real life horses don't really pedal. They only use a motion similar to pedalling when they swim. This will be a tricky one, OP.
Is this front pedal even connected to anything?
attempting to map where the pedals go
>>43276195if you want the pony to sit on the seat you need to make the front pedals higher like in >>43276177
>>43276177>>43276195>no steering
>>43276195Porn when?
>>43276150“Why was a horse bicycle never invented?”"French legend has it that Comte Mede de Sivrac devised the celerifere in 1790: a device with two wheels in line, like a bicycle, but unable to be steered. The device,It seems to have been dreamt up by some jingoistic Frenchman to diminish the clear claim that the bicycle was devised in Germany in 1817. If the celerifere was indeed built, it was useless because a single-track vehicles, such as a bicycle, requires a means of steering into the fall to maintain balance. Either that or a massive gyroscope or computer-controlled ballast-shifting..To maintain balance on a horse-drawn bicycle, which I think is what you mean, the horse would have to be dodging from side-to-side to keep the bicycle in balance. Very tiring for the horse and even more tiring training it to do so.The other way would be to have the bicycle alongside the horse. That would provide stability but it would be difficult to avoid asymmetric forces on the horse, and that could be very tiring, as well as painful, for it.With two wheels side-by-side, a jinker or sulky is stable laterally while the horse out ahead maintains longitudinal stability. Much more workable."By some dude called John Harland.
>>43276212The cycling elephant uses only his front legs for the job and steers using his trunk.
>>43276150no chains or handle bar. peddles directly on the wheelsbarrel seatsteer by twisting body like normal runningsorry for bad drawing its just to get the idea across
>>43276177it connects the thingmabob to dohickey
>>43276150I don't think a horse bicycle would be any more efficient than just walking
>>43276408This man hasn't heard of gear ratio's
>>43276432I have now!
>>43276272The center of gravity would be too low and it'd be too easy to crash like this
>>43276177It's connected to a shaft that goes down the blue and white stripey tube, to rotate the tail rotor/gyro wheel/peppermint candy thing. It would have several 90 degree turns accomplished with bevel gears, so she probably couldn't put much torque on it, but doesn't really need to since it isn't providing lift.
