• Very interesting Lae. I like the seating position of the children too. I'm pretty sure my little'ns would love to be taken to nursey in one.
    The bit that could be a hard sell to non-cyclists is the low position of the rider.

    Thanks! I did design it so that the kids could easily see towards the front of the vehicle - makes it more interesting and you feel safer if you know where you're headed. The rider's eye-level is about three inches above the eye-level of a driver in a family hatchback (I used a Ford Focus for comparison) - it's still a little lower than a normal bike but it's higher than most recumbents.

    Just looking at it I'd want some rake and trail on the front wheel. It looks like it's actually steeper than the headtube drop which would result in heavy and twitchy steering.

    Point noted. I only had a cursory look at steering dynamics - unfortunately it was only a short project and I didn't have time to go into the engineering in detail.

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