Race winning custom recumbent Trike

[Jacko 2132]

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=317326183

This monster was created to win a design and engineering challenge, it smoked the competition!

Since winning the trike has been from auckland to cape reinga and back, 1072km, so it is VERY well proven (in addition to the curbs we jumped with it!) Its got over 1300km of testing and racing on it

50% of the proceeds of the auction go to child cancer, the bike has already generated $2600 in prize money and sponsorship for child cancer, the auction of it is the final lump to them. The other 50% of the price goes into making Mk2 for next years challenge.

Its awesome to ride BTW, like pedalling a roll cage! Sits low, corners hard!

Montage Vid of the build and its first win

Much appreciation for pumping this auction up as hard as you can. We wanna break 4k to charity.

Edited September 17, 2010 by Jacko

[antil33t 90]

Awesome! That bloody thing looks quicker than a conventional push bike.

Well done, I guess you were part of the team? saw an E30 Coupe in the video haha.

[Jacko 2132]

Does about 40kmh on the flat, if ya cranking hard, Aparently it cracked 70 going down hill on the way to cape reinga (wouldve been shed scary!) Feels faster than a normal bike to ride because of the seating position.

Yeh, Im driving the camera in the vid, and am the pink tooth fairy at the end (ha!)

Its looks like a funky camber on the front end, lots of design went into it, getting the ackerman angles working shweet, works really well though. Turns in near its own length, but understeers a bit when its slippery.

We didnt know what the course was when designing it, Mk2 will be much more refined, we were expecting have to go down stairs and the like, turns out it was near dead flat concrete hangar floor.

Edited September 20, 2010 by Jacko

[Jacko 2132]

Forgot too mention the front brakes are independant, it'll do some serious ass bone breaking stoppies, but jamming one on while pedalling hard does some cool things