Three Wheel Weight Distribution

[Coss]

We get many bent/broken rims around here

No thanks, we don't have problems like that here; but we also don't have winters like you do either.
I was born and raised in NW Indiana (Indiana Harbor / East Chicago) and moved to the Pacific NW in 1975, and have never regretted my decision.

 

[slinches]

Where I live, we have to worry more about the asphalt melting and sliding off of the roads than we do about potholes.

 

[Karnaj]

Where i live we have to worry about the people on the road more than the road itself. Put the damn phone/ make up/ tablet (yes I've seen it...more than once) down and drive your freaking car.

 

[wizard of ahs]

Where i live we have to worry about the people on the road more than the road itself. Put the damn phone/ make up/ tablet (yes I've seen it...more than once) down and drive your freaking car.

Unfortunately, that's true everywhere

 

[W. WIllie]

Damn.....lost my oar again.

 

[outsydthebox]

I've been wondering on how the 3 wheels will affect the ride in regards to potholes. Not missing them, but what happens when you drive over one. A table with 3 legs will always sit securely with all 3 legs on the floor while a 4 legged table has the possibility of one leg resting above the floor.
In a car with 4 wheels, if one wheel goes over (and into) a pothole, I would expect the weight distribution on the diagonal tire to want to keep the car from dipping down into the pothole. In a 3 wheeled car, there is no opposing wheel allowing all of the weight over the tire to drive the car down into the pothole.

Based on the "track width" it should be possible to miss a pothole larger that 2 feet across. The track width is 60"...+ ?...(don't recall exactly) so, lets say 5 feet or 60" divided x 2 is 30". Theoretically possible to "not drop into" a hole that wide. We're gonna have to pay good attention while driving.

 

[voyager]

Safe to say that a three-wheeler driver has to pay more attention to the road condition than a regular car driver does... though not as concentrated as a motorcyclist has to?

 

[wizard of ahs]

Based on the "track width" it should be possible to miss a pothole larger that 2 feet across. The track width is 60"...+ ?...(don't recall exactly) so, lets say 5 feet or 60" divided x 2 is 30". Theoretically possible to "not drop into" a hole that wide. We're gonna have to pay good attention while driving.

Safe to say that a three-wheeler driver has to pay more attention to the road condition than a regular car driver does... though not as concentrated as a motorcyclist has to?

Easier to miss a pothole on 2 wheels than 3 !

 

[Coss]

Easier to miss a pothole on 2 wheels than 3 !

Wasn't it Jay Leno that said "in a 3 wheeler, you WILL hit the pothole".

 

[Ty]

Wasn't it Jay Leno that said "in a 3 wheeler, you WILL hit the pothole".

Yes, it was. LOL