Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Designs

Emailed designer drawings of cabled upright and single tube recumbent over the fall. Thanks for the nice comment.
I've been working on a few things and one of the transistional designs has gone forward where I've managed to envision by lever and tensional cable the rider being able to shift the bike from the upright to the recumbent position, and back again, without losing steering control. Modeling is proving a challenge.
There are just so many features coming forward in just one model that it gets confusing.
Therefore, I feel I need to do a breakout and project spreadsheet to keep up with the necessary changes. Trying to keep them all in my mind - well, it gets to be a bit much as I have to put one aside and pick up another and then,,,, so forth all over again.
I realize I'm being cryptic here but, this is the internet after all.
The transistional frame is first, followed by the expandable cranks, then into the drive train of chain/tube and then the steering/lever.
Part of my problen is in trying to keep all of them going along the same design line without straying too far. I think this is what is making me crazy - trying to control the process. I need to just break them out on their own and let the processes go where they need to go with the confidence that they'll all come together.
Well, I'm glad I had this conversation with myself. Maybe now I can just concentrate one thing at a time! Ugh!