Major upgrade of last year’s solar trike
After having worked on my new solar trike, it was time to go back to my first prototype I have used last year. These are the areas that needed to…
Initial tests…and first surprises!
This is my finished bike, the STT2. It stands for Solar Tilting Trike with Tilting panels, so we can say that it is 'tilting 2 times' ! So as soon as…
The new solar tilting trike is ready!
It has been a busy period and things have progressed but more slowly than expected. This was also due to some components that arrived late or/and with partial shipments.... In…
“Solar tilting trike” project continues….
After having installed the FWD (Front Wheel Drive) transmission on my M5 bike I was able to do some tests and the result was encouraging.So it was possible to start…
New 2019 Solar Tilting Trike
After all the experience gained last year with my Raptobike Tilting Trike, I started to lay down all the things that should be improved: It should be possible for solar…
How to improve solar charge efficiency ?
One important area for improvement is how to minimize the losses/inefficiencies around the energy storage on the solar trike.After few months I finally wanted to start to look in particular…
Repaired front panels support
As I described before, I was able to finish my tour of Normandie but at the end the support of the front panel was in very bad conditions. Although I…
Rear luggage rack
One of the advantages of the tilting trike is that we are now able to use all the new space that exists between both rear wheels.To be able to do…
2018 – Normandie – les challenges techniques
Pendant la troisième étape de notre périple en Normandie ( Honfleur > Ouistreham ) j'ai remarqué que la partie antérieure des panneaux bougeait beaucoup plus que d'habitude. Quand j'ai décidé de…
Falco motor testing
On the Solar Tilting Trike I have done roughly 1700km from the beginning of my tests in March. Therefore I start to have now enough data to understand how it…