Wow is there a lot of people making a lot of assumptions especially without having ridden one!!
Some people are making a lot of technical calls without the experience the qualifications or the data. There seems to be a great lack of investigation into the industry as well as to what is available.
We even have the suggestion someone with no motorcycle experience will be given the opportunity to jump on one. Surely you need a motorcycle license to ride anything from a 50cc to a leaning trike to a Spyder and they are just about as in as much trouble at corner one if they make it that far and I think the Spyder that requires no balance or centrifugal force to supply it as about the only one likely to get them there. You dont have a nanny on a two wheeler and a mechanical tilting 3 wheeler rides like a two wheeler with, well like a two wheeler with an extra wheel how surprising!!
Just as everyone who rode a two wheeler and bought a spider had to re-learn the principles of forces that the bike would apply these bikes move you back towards the forces used in a two wheel bike and in fact the are exactly the same but with extra wheel provide a solid base that means you have to move a certain amount of force outside that base in order to get it to fall over its called the tipping point. The more wheels you put on it the wider the base and the more forces you need applied wider to get it to fall over in any way.
Would you think this would dump you on your ass?? Thanks I'll ride this over a Spyder or Carver anyday
For your own sake people get educated, like the number of Patents Can Am have just lodged for a tilting Spyder those who think they wont make one, have a look through this link about tilting
http://www.projectstreetliner.com/category/tilting-and-suspension/
I have permission from my local roads authority to submit them plans for a leaning 4 wheel on road bike design and I am contracting that design and work at the moment to a company.
Yamaha Tesseract is likely a familiar image to most people the other bike is called the Pendulato by a company Sbatto, notice how close their wheels are together like the Piaggio scooter, you get going and you have to work HARD to make it fall over even though a lot of your mass is outside the tipping point the forces inside the tipping point as generated by centrifugal force is greater.
Daveinva is the only one making an experience or mechanical point of view I had read up to the start of writing this although others are very pleasant in keeping an open mind. Everyone has the right to have a preference and theres nothing wrong with that, everyone can ride their own way and there is a multitude of bikes to satisfy that but people making claims to knowing pro's and cons to a bike and then not knowing what they are talking about?? woah!! :yikes:
Ride safe people.
