How does the braking work on a trike normally? Is it on a central axle?
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I think you just put both feet down
Woooahhh what is this some liberal ploy to jump on the bud light bandwagon
almost all decent trikes are “tadpole” with two front wheels and two front disc brakes each with their own lever which allows for using them to turn tighter at low speeds
“delta” trikes have a variety of extra sketchy braking and differential schemes for the rear wheels, often with just one of them having any control and the other free-spinning
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Ah I see. I always assumed a trike is one wheel at the front.
For a non-trike scenario, would a front disc dynamo hub reversed and laced as a rear with a cog adapter to single speed it generate power or black-hole anti-matter? Would need a rim brake or none at all I guess.
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yeah tadpole is significantly more stable and well mannered
also, lollin at this mid-drive hanging off the front
dynamo will generate current spinning either direction. i can never remember the deal with the directionality, though at least shimano ones have a big threaded friend that holds the insides inside. might be more of a concern with driving forces?
edit- reversed hub driving from the brake side would be the same as braking but less strong.
another one- i guess it might be the internal doodads at risk of unscrewing, not the big bit holding the field windings in.
so i say go for it but use a front brake to assist slowing down and you might have a net “keeping it tight” balance
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SON used to have a warning about not running them backwards for mechanical (not electrical) reasons. I’m sure Fred will correct me, but it was something like the coil could theoretically unthreading from the axle, which would lead to it rattling around and eventually failing.
Rereading what you wrote, I think we’re in agreement.
This is all less of an issue in the disc brake era, until someone starts putting caliper mounts on the drive side fork leg.
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This would cause severe injury as Your legs get sucked under the trike
yep this was the original designs with the large straight barrel
a bunch of moving parts of it were threaded together tightening in the direction of resistance in normal operation, including the left and right flanges of the hubshell
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Belt drive 650b disc converted 1993 Hard Rock
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I’ll allow it. Mostly for the dropouts, and because they used a Thomson dropper post when we all thought Thomsons were hot shit for a while then.
Yeah I would that
Never understood the Thompson thing. Mid-tier parts are where it’s at
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It’s cool but also like, why go through all this trouble for this frame, ya know?
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so that you can add 2’ to the chainstays
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yeah it seems pretty excessive. cute paint job but not exactly the nicest frameset
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Why not?
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