Anyone got details on how the cars using the rear end of a motorbike hook it up? Presumably through the headset - but how do they stop it steering?
Try; http://www.blackjackzero.com/mainindex.htm Comes in Moto Guzzi and VW flavours. I run the owners club.
Blackjack, go to http://www.rqriley.com/plans.html and check out the Tri-Magnum and others. Basically the front frame is built so that you take the forks off the bike and slide it on a stub on the frame through the head tube of the bike frame where the forks were. The lower front corners of the bike frame clamp to the lower front frame of the three wheeler. May have to weld some tabs on the bike frame, but it can be done in such a way that the bike can be removed and the forks reinstalled. I have an old Honda 500 "Silverwing" (CX-500) water cooled V-twin in the shop and an old VW bug front suspension. I've been considering combining the two to build something similar to a Morgan three wheeler. Mount the Honda engine in front of the VW front end and extend the driveshaft through the two front end tubes to the rear, use the motorcycle swing-arm in the back.
Some fantastic photos over here: http://mog.vosforums.com/rallye-du-puy-notre-dame-26-juillet-2008-t471.html
I didn't read the entire thread yet, but I haven't seen anyone mention front wheel drive. You can get the cockpit lower without having to sit on top of a driveshaft. Here is a project I saw at the '09 Miller meet. A Crosley powered car styled on the front drive Miller Indy cars. It seems to fit the cycle car theme. It has a Crosley engine and transmission reversed in the frame connecting to an inverted Model T differential. The axle is a DeDion style tube axle like the Millers.
There was a thread on here on front-wheel-drive hot rods. I was about to suggest that that be posted there too, but I see it's already there. I note that the drive shafts are missing. Quite a tidy DeDion axle, though, which goes to show how viable it is to fabricate one, even one with provision for steering, contrary to the assumptions of some on this thread. The scrub radius on this one is enormous, however.
Excellent impression of speed in this picture but given the size of the engine in relation to the size of the car, driver and passenger I think there has been just a little artistic licence used.
I have only just found this ,, but i see my chater lea cyclecar has got a few comments way back on page 19 or so i like the bit about if a Hamber built a cycle car it would be that one,, well whoever wrote that was right take a look at the link to my pics and you will find a album full of pics of the chater lea, it's basics are a belt drive chassis from about 1913, 3 speed gearbox no reverse, the engine is a 1925(ish) blackburne tom tit aircraft engine its a v twin of 625 cc but is supposed to put out about 25 hp the body is made from wood and doped canvas ,, the body is my design after cars of the age as i can find no pics of the car in period with a body on
I hate to say it, Ade, but you've been here before: Welcome back, though! Always glad to see that good-looking Chater Lea. -Dave
opps sorry but that must have been a long time ago ,,, it is still not running but there is a big cyclecar event next year here in the uk, as it is the 100th aniversery of the cyclecar club, which later changed it's name to the junior car club and ran a lot of events at Brooklands ,, so need to get it done for then
Here's one we just finished up. 1955 Messersmitt 175, Just some fun. Micro North Meet, June 17,18,19 Coldwater, Ontario Canada. 60 cars in the front yard. We open the meet to Micro cars Old and New and obscure Automobiles. I put on a seminar in the morning and then go for a cruze in the afternoon. The Old Tinbasher
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