landing gear on a fazer

[dr bong]

If you want kids laughing at you at every junction then I guess it's a pretty good idea.  :\

[Sunny Intervals]

ignore everything I just said, :look just looked at your video again  :pc

I was thinking of  canter lever type legs.

now off to think about spirally machined cams.  :grumble

[His Dudeness]

If you want kids laughing at you at every junction then I guess it's a pretty good idea.  :\

i'll be sure to ask the lad in the wheelchair if he's worried about kids laughing at him

[His Dudeness]

thanks for all the ideas lads keep them coming! i'll add updates as i go.

[ReNcE]

Have a look on the Kent & Sussex Bikers forum, there's a guy on there doing exactly the same thing, and he's done it himself, and I dont belive it cost 1000's either

[His Dudeness]

thank i'll check that out

[His Dudeness]

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

[Grahamm]

IIRC there are air horns available for bikes which run off compressed air, although I don't know how the compressors are driven, but they might be worth looking into.

[wraith600]

would it not be better to trike it 

[wraith600]

a couple of less radical ones

[Sunny Intervals]

Another thing I’ll have to look at is a way of locking the landing gear when it comes down.

If you look at the video you first posted,
You'll see they rotate the legs down past the vertical, so that any downward force on them pushes the leg back up the opposite side of the legparked/travelling position.

Some sort of block stop near the top of the leg,  perhaps on the frame mounting where the leg rotating/pivot shaft is, will stop the leg collapsing