14-10-11, 10:23 PM
small update: I got a quickshifter this week that will allow for clutchless upshifts and down shifts so I’m hoping to add that on to the bike. I’ve been talking to a few people about using pneumatics and they've all said it would be possible but the problem is how to run the compressor. Trucks use compressed air to power their brake but they have a mechanical link from the engine to the compressor which I can’t really do here so if I was to use compressed air I’d probably have to run it off the electrical system of the bike but I don’t know if I would be able to get a 12v compressor that would be reliable enough and to use. I’ve seen high performance 12v compressors for pumping up truck and tractor tyres but they pull a crazy amount of amps and theres no way a bikes electrical system could run one of them so I’m still not sure about the compressed air system. Another thing I’ll have to look at is a way of locking the landing gear when it comes down. I could size the actuators so that they have a high enough break force to resist anything pushing them back up or I could come up with a mechanical way of locking them when they are lower like some sort of pin that could be lock in place and then released when you wanted the landing gear to be raised again. Lots to think about anyway