I sat and looked at various ideas yesterday and decided that some serious thought needs to go into a vehicle that will do in excess of 5000 kms in a year in all weathers. I may need to be protected from fairly nasty weather while on the road and mostly the gear that will be carried will need some protection from the elements. Canvas bags probably will not be sufficient.
I don’t want to stop every time there is some rain so I have been looking at various ideas and have come up with my concept Human propelled vehicle. I also came to the conclusion that branding canvas would not be as easy as something more solid.
So here are the preliminary sketches of the HPV I want to build. The frame work will be aluminium, The body carbon fibre. The drive train will use standard bicycle components.
HPV plans
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Tags: Carbon Fibre, HPV plans, Trike
November 7th, 2008 at 11:58 am
November 12th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
I found your website through a Google Newswatch that I monitor.
on http://guymclaren.com/cycle-tour-status-report/
you mentioned that you are looking for someone to do your CAD work. I’m not offering to do that, but I will recommend a free CAD program that I’ve been using with spectacular results. You can download it here:
http://sketchup.google.com/
I’ve been using it for some of my speculative projects. The program is easy to learn, and there are lots of YouTube video tutorials. I wish you good luck with your project.
Nick Hein
Morgantown, WV USA
PS I sent you an email, but I had to guess the address since I couldn’t find it on the site. It has a CAD sketch attached of a project I’m working on.
November 12th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Thanks for that, I will have a look at that.
Guy