Happy new year dear Readers!!
The project Lamoto2 it’s going really well.
We’ve been thinking about publishing it worldwide with the help of www.thekneeslider.com even if this can make the project too much big for our human resources. However I think we’ll do it because it’s a great chance to meet people interested in this kind of projects.
I’ve done the first proposals while we’re waiting for the readers designs. Readers are really interested and they are mainly giving their opinions and some of them are proposing their ideas.
FIRST SYSTEM it´s called D-D (Demonstener-Difazio)
It exploit the best of both systems. It has a double swing arm single-sided or a double swingarm on both sides. It uses a commercial Vyrus rim and it’s really light an efficient.
irst you can see is the headstock, it´s placed inside the hub. It´s a preliminary design so doesn´t matter too much how is it made. The headstock it’s a part of the system that DOESN’T TURN.
There we have the Hub. It turns with the steering. It has big bearing with small section and so a reasonable weight.
The hub wears also the supports of the callipers. We must still calculate if the headstock allows the loads they produce.
The direction come from a bended plate that works mainly in shear mode so it´s strength enough to hold the efforts.
Over the wheel we must continue with a telescopic cylinder that can carry the steering effort with a compass or with a grooved shaft.
The most elegant solution it’s the Cannondale steering system with needle bearings.
The swingarms can be one-sided or both sided depending of the stress analysis results. We’ll choose the one with better performance.
Read also System 2!
And off couse visit www.lamoto2.es
