Where are all the kits? >fixes the inherent instability>reblances inherent load distribution>instantly makes biking more accessible to disabled people>maintains ride height unlike recumbents>saves shipping costs off-standard trikes that balloon costs>keeping 60% of the bike standard and deconvertibleI have 4 pairs of identical junk bikes but no welding equipment, so ideally bolt on everything, and possibly maintaining original front fork that saddles into reversible bike trailer. Other rules are all same wheel size. Someone explain to me the instinct to go small or slightly smaller wheels. Just to carry different inner tubes? Sell more overpriced specialized equipment?
>>2014505>fixes inherent instability>maintains ride heightif you convert a single track to a multi track vehicle and keep the COGs height (which is quite high as single track vehicles get away with it thanks to their stability) the instability will reappear quite sudden when cornering.also too much to listeither way: trikes exist, get one, or cobble yours together. A hack saw and some hardware shouldn't be out of financial reach for the person having multiple bicycles.
>>2014505Damn they built that without knowing how to remove the bars from a quill stem?
>mystery meat cyclist >crocs >unpainted, overcomplicated 20kg+ abomination KYS nigger
>>2014508 #>instability reintroducedFor not being able to be rammed by a car and go under the wheels is a great trade off. A luxury would be twin front wheel turning. But I'm more than happy with a fixed smallest ice cream truck bakfiet.I have a midget bike and you get addicted to that turning radius. For how I'm biking (density/sidewalks/shopping centers) it's so nimble.Only rule is none of this two headed monster/looks wrong horse shit like picrel. Front tires have to be a wide as my shoulders OR wider>>2014574 #See i have no idea what that is....>>2014646 #Yeah, fuck that guy. But imagine it made out of carbon fiber and weighing 10 pounds....all the bullshit material sciences normally mispent to make a 10 pound bike weigh 4 pounds...all that progress is used as it should be to make a more and more substantial bike/bike car at the same weight as a steel conventional bike? Almost like something making sense finally sense......your welcome
>>2014646you forgot to mention the trousers
So are ya disabled or just too dumb to balance a bike, OP?
Balance? When you vertigo have anything to do with IQ, you non@ing, coward. Talk about 3 fingers back....
>>2014672>>2014646Forgot to mention that fucking chain slack.
meanwhile a pedal powered tadpole trike with sane design decisions, that you can buy right now
>>2015195>basically a speedbump
Bump for thee only thread that matters on thak graveyard of a board....
>>2014646Mirin' his forearms doe.
>>2014505if the frame is steel then that's possible.if its aluminum don't even think about what the guy on the pic has done.Normal trikes are better because of cheap rear difs and conversion parts you can find on aliexpress and amazon.
>>2019151Amen. As much as because of the modestness if human power, justifies chasing light materials, classic human irrationality intrudes, and we get people who bike 50 miles on a weekend polluting the market with 12,000 dollar carbon fiber abominations, in the only option poors have for conveyance.....In my decade of buying Walmarts cheapest bike to fix the market, everyone of these u.s. hollowing chinesium widgets has had the rims become untrue/spokes break. Either cause they brag about being aluminum now....in cheapest possible imitation of yuppie poison.....I have a Huffy 10 speed form the 80s whose steel rims, while the chrome has rusted a bit, have been of jumps, potholes, curbs.....and I have NEVER had to touch them.....but man, so they weight a pound or two more, and that wears me out so badly....it's worth buying a brand new 100$ bike every year....
>>2019623absolutely, steel is king, aluminum needs to be heat treated in an huge ass oven just to get it the proper rating suitable for riding.even if you weld something little on one side of the bike the whole bike's aluminum rating is ruined due to its heat spreading properties.This summer i met a northern euro fella that was bikepacking his way around europe and the middle east on a cheap used belt driven city bike.The seat and chain strays on the side of the drivetrain where both somewhat bent and made the wheel go out of alignment after a car crashed into it i think. anyway with a little rubber mullet and a heat-gun/torch and plastic jaw'd pliers we managed to massage those stray pipes back to alignment and that was only possible because it was steel, if that was aluminum or god forbid CF it would be a total loss.Though I do still see the appeal of light materials for sport stuff and for rich people that like wasting money like that, many top brands will sell additional CF lifetime frame warranties that let you replace it upon breaking, many aluminum frames are warrantied for decades or a lifetime.
>>2015195Those tadpoles are really fun if you put a good electric motor on them. Tons of fun to shoot right under garage gates. Otherwise they're pretty much for the infirm or cross country touring.
>>2014505>picWhy would someone do this? I just disregard it as being some kind of meme machine. Seems incredibly inefficient to ride too.>>2014947So many things wrong with the OP pic but yes the chain slack might be the worst thing about it.
>>2020295These people fighting for 7 pounds of a 200 pound combined vehicle and rider are hilarious.>warranties That's great, if try picked up all the costs of walking home with 50 pounds of stuff when their cheap shit breaks.>>2020306To fix everything wrong with "bladed" cycling....did you not read? How can two mtb tires at 50 psi, or even two road tires at 120psi....and then one more tire, not be worth the trade offs? No kick stand for one.....
