Topic: FWD Electric 3-wheeler---rear wheel steering

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Don't try this.
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Why not?

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Why not?

I was steering the rear wheel with a tiller (of course) and the "feel" was
not particularly intuitive.
Over steering and then over correction became a problem.
Especially once--put me over a curb and through a fence.
--explain that to the cop!
After which I went back to the mundane.
Front wheel steering.
Still using a tiller, though.

[Don R]

In the 70's the DOT comissioned a rear wheel steer motorcycle. The theory was since the front wheel does most of the braking moing the steering to the back tire would make a safer bike. The result was a bike that no one could ride, they never admitted defeat though, they insisted it they could find someone who had never ridden a two wheeler of any kind they would be able to ride it. The rest of us had learned on front steer and would never be able to make the switch.

[Don R]

Oh, also that is a very innovative use of all thread and unistrut. I bet the unistrut people never had that in mind for their product. They have lots of cool fittings in the book.