Completed our first Cubmobile, had a blast!
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 3:46 pm
We completed our first Cubmobile in 3 weeks from the time we knew the race existed... and raced to 1st Saturday!
We did some things different than the base design.
We used steering linkage to move the seat back as far as possible, and also to provide a 2:1 steering ratio (this both de-sensitized the steering and made the steering require half the effort).
The result: Our car was stable and controllable, the rest of the cars went out of control about 50% of the time (many ran into the crowd or other cars).
We also used some Pinewood style techniques on the car... we raised the right front wheel and offset the seat to the left to keep it airborne.
Can anyone on here host pics?
I think for safety's sake anyone building a new car should consider some type of simple linkage steering to give the rider more control. Steering was the number one problem at our race... and for cars under control the other car running into them was very, very common.
Terry
We did some things different than the base design.
We used steering linkage to move the seat back as far as possible, and also to provide a 2:1 steering ratio (this both de-sensitized the steering and made the steering require half the effort).
The result: Our car was stable and controllable, the rest of the cars went out of control about 50% of the time (many ran into the crowd or other cars).
We also used some Pinewood style techniques on the car... we raised the right front wheel and offset the seat to the left to keep it airborne.
Can anyone on here host pics?
I think for safety's sake anyone building a new car should consider some type of simple linkage steering to give the rider more control. Steering was the number one problem at our race... and for cars under control the other car running into them was very, very common.
Terry