Gap in the market? Chinese crosses a motorcycle with a tank

Posted on 16-09-2014 at 22:30 by CasperH – 12 Comments”

A bunch of students from Chang’an in China has above patentfoto submitted, interesting or useless?

The Chinese are clearly engaged with a cross between a motorcycle and a tankonderstel. The fork remains, but has a sort of sub frame with two wheels that the monotrack tape guide. Now I hear you thinking “snowmobile!” but that is not the case. It seems that in this design space is for only one track. How the send should take place without that the track of the wheels runs is our, as yet, a mystery.

The reason for a vehicle like this escapes us a bit. A snowmobile or quad would be about the same, only difference is that this design may have a much narrower design can be a little easier on the road to handle. Old articles about this technique report that huge steep climb made with the track. There are in the past, attempts have been made to the comparable vehicles to make, but usually failed on that design because of the stuurprobleem.

Perhaps the Chinese even in contact with the designers of the BALE, a monotrack vehicle of the designers Tilmann Schlootz and Oliver Keller that during the Michelin Deisgn Challenge 2006 a lot of attention.