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From: Sean_Q_ on 13 Nov 2009 20:37
Only a short bit at the start of this page is in French;
the rest in English:
http://www.gatsbyonline.com/main.aspx?page=text&id=87&cat=moto

Check this for comparison:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Soap_Box_Derby_Racer.jpg

SQ
From: Stupendous Man on 13 Nov 2009 20:55
Interesting but they blew it on the tire selection. Flat tread would be
proper, not bike tires.

From: S'mee on 14 Nov 2009 08:57
On Nov 13, 6:55 pm, "Stupendous Man" <s...(a)trap.com> wrote:
> Interesting but they blew it on the tire selection. Flat tread would be
> proper, not bike tires.

Why?

Mind you PM did this back in the early 80's only side by side with a
real windshield and a heater (if the donor cycle was water cooled.
yet another one of the 10million uses for a VW bug front end. ;^)
From: Stupendous Man on 14 Nov 2009 11:18

> Interesting but they blew it on the tire selection. Flat tread would be
> proper, not bike tires.

>Why?

Trikes, like a sidehack, don't lean. The tires need a flat contact patch to
distribute surface pressure, rather than a round cross section. Bike tires
will wear out in half or less of their normal life.

From: Nagarjuna's Cataskoti clawed me! on 14 Nov 2009 13:28
On Nov 13, 5:37 pm, Sean_Q_ <no.s...(a)no.spam> wrote:
> Only a short bit at the start of this page is in French;
> the rest in English:http://www.gatsbyonline.com/main.aspx?page=text&id=87&cat=moto

I've considered building something like this for decades, but it would
have
bodywork that enclosed the front wheels. The body would look like a
guitar pick, with the pointy end toward the rear.

I stopped mentally designing the three wheeler when I couldn't imagine
some
attractive-looking stracture which would prevent the driver from being
decapitated if he accidentally under-rode a stopped truck...
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