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The featherbed frame was a motorcycle frame invented by the McCandless brothers and offered to the British Norton motorcycle company to improve the performance of their racing motorcycles in 1950. It was considered revolutionary at the time, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ full citation needed ] and the best handling frame that a racer could have.
A Pedal-electric Hybrid That's Half Bike, Half Car The Nomoto represents a bold reimagining of urban transportation. It's a testament to the power of creative design to solve practical problems ...
The Triton was probably the most common hybrid British motorcycle. Others include the Tribsa, with a Triumph engine in a BSA frame; the Norvin, with a Vincent V-twin engine in a Norton featherbed frame; [4] and a Trifield with a Triumph engine in a Royal Enfield frame. A "Norbsa" may be either a BSA engine in the Norton featherbed frame, or a ...
In most countries it is licensed as a motorcycle. The dimensions are 3,400 mm (130 in) long by 1,300 mm (51 in) wide by 1,400 mm (55 in) high, giving it a low slim profile, similar to a motorcycle. It weighs 643 kg (1,418 lb), [25] about half the weight of a medium size car or three to four times the weight of most motorcycles. The Carver One ...
Twike, based in Rosenthal, is a German manufacturer of light electric vehicles in the European Union vehicle class L5e (US motorcycle). [1] The main product, the Twike (a portmanteau of the words twin and bike ), is a human-electric hybrid vehicle (HEHV) designed to carry two passengers and cargo.
Uses semi truck parts in the drive train. Can operate with the front or rear wheel trinary out of commission. Side and top hatches on the main unit and rear and top on the after section. Full running lights and brake lights for urban street use. External video camera is mounted on the forward pylon located just behind the front top hatch.
SilentHawk is an all-wheel drive, hybrid-electric military bike designed for the United States Armed Forces.The bike, currently in its prototype stage, is being developed by Fairfax, Virginia-based contractor Logos Technologies with the aid of a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). [1]
A prototype TPV hybrid car was even built. The "Viking 29" [20] was the World's first thermophotovoltaic (TPV) powered automobile, designed and built by the Vehicle Research Institute (VRI) at Western Washington University. Efficiency would need to be increased and cost decreased to make TPV competitive with fuel cells or internal combustion ...