[python] Re: locking the pivot
- From: George Durbridge <gdurbrid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: python@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 06:51:35 +1100
On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 16:12 +0000, dan chambers wrote:
> I've seen some of you use a rubber block steering damper, which helps wheel
> flop and limits steering extremes. It
> can't help with high speed shimmy and oscillations much though. I know they
> are very expensive new (300 Euros), but
> has anyone tried the oil filled piston steering dampers used on racing
> motorbikes to stabilise the front wheel. They
> lock against any quick movement but move with steady loading, the opposite of
> suspension forks.
Esko Meriluoto's Hipparion uses a motorcycle steering damper, which I
take to be the oil-filled type, rather than the Flevo rubber diabolo.
He says all trikes should have similar dampers.
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