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The world's largest tricycle

Started by Gene/ZR1 , Mar 31 2022 11:57 AM

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#1 Gene/ZR1

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Posted 31 March 2022 - 11:57 AM

The world's largest tricycle was built by the Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Company to advertise Vim tires in 1898.

They sure could dream up stuff to build back then.

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#2 Bill from NH

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Posted 31 March 2022 - 01:52 PM

How do they stop that trike, or do they?

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Posted 31 March 2022 - 03:11 PM

How do they stop that trike, or do they?

They use the foot brake of course

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Posted 31 March 2022 - 07:20 PM

1898 - I'm guessing this isn't motorized and is using cranks and leg power. It looks like multiple pairs of leg power. The grainy photo makes it hard to tell, but there might be a front rim brake, though I don't know if those were available then. If it's direct drive (no freewheel), then stopping would be accomplished by reverse leg action on the spinning cranks. Tires that large would have a lot of rolling resistance, so I don't think they'd be going really fast, although it looks like they do have 3 or 4 gents propelling it. Those are pretty enormous wheels even considering this was the time of the Velocipede (high wheel bikes).

Not too crazy when you consider some of the more modern vehicles that've been sponsored by tire companies to draw attention to their tire products. I'm thinking of 60's jet-powered land speed record vehicles. And who sponsored those 50's dragsters with V-12 aircraft engines?

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Posted 01 April 2022 - 08:22 AM

Gene, do you think you could turn this into a slot car body?

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