The cargo motorcycle is a three-wheeled vehicle intended for operation as a small mass transporter. These units require registration in the traffic police and the availability of the driver's license of the corresponding category. Next, consider the characteristics and features of the most popular tricycles.
general information
Three-wheeled cargo motorcycle is not a special novelty in the field of transport. Since Soviet times, similar samples are known ("ant", "Dnipro", MT with a carriage). However, modern modifications of domestic brands and foreign analogues made a huge leap forward. First of all, it concerns the power unit, functionality and additional equipment.
A low technique can be equipped with a on-board or dump truck, have a reinforced suspension on springs or equipped with automotive tires. Developed variations with the cab. The power of the power unit varies within 11-18 horsepower, and the fuel consumption is about 3-5 liters per hundred kilometers.
Cargo motorcycle "Ural"
The Tricotley "Ural Hercules" is a modification of a heavy motorcycle designed for the transportation of various goods. The technique perfectly showed itself on any road surface. At the same time, the unit can carry goods up to five hundred kilograms. Features of the design allow it to be used on construction sites, warehouses, trading bases and agriculture. Removing boards allow you to transport oversized materials. To control the vehicle, the rights "C" category are not required.
The domestic cargo motorcycle has the following technical parameters:
- length / width / height - 2.53 / 0.85 / 1.3 meters;
- fuel tank capacity - nineteen liters;
- the limit threshold - 70 km / h;
- power unit with a pair of cylinders - 745 cubic meters. cm, 40 horse forces;
- startup system - mechanical and electric starter;
- the gearbox is a four-stage block with reverse and;
- brakes - front disk, rear - hydraulic drum type;
- suspension knot - Telescopic design in front and spring option behind.
In addition, the unit has a microprocessor ignition system and a cardan main transmission.
Truck motorcycles "Lifan": description
Petersburg company offered consumers Tricycle of a cargo type called "Lifan". The vehicle is an analogue of the Chinese version of the LF-200 ZH3. The technique is intended for the carriage of small cargo weighing up to 275 kilograms. The cargo motorcycle is equipped with a four-stroke gasoline engine with a working volume of 200 cubic centimeters and a power of seventeen "horses". The multi-disc clutch node is placed in an oil bath. Starting the power plant is carried out by a kickstarter or electrical ignition.
The tipping body of the vehicle is made according to the principle of dump truck, which speeds up the unloading of bulk materials. The modification under consideration is characterized by economy, practicality and low weight. Due to the presence of folding sides and compact dimensions, Lifan is great for exploitation in the agricultural sphere. Safety provides brake node of drum type, and the tank capacity is enough to overcome 170 kilometers without refueling.
Characteristics
Tricycle "Lifan" has the following technical plan parameters:
- power unit - single-cylinder four-stroke motor (volume - 197 cubic meters. cm, air cooling);
- gearbox - five-speed mechanical transmission;
- clutch node - multi-disc element;
- the volume of the fuel tank is 11 liters;
- weight - 305 kilograms;
- length / width / height - 3.2 / 1.25 / 1.4 meters;
- fuel consumption 100 km - 6.5 liters.
- body - dump truck with folding sides.
Cargo motorcycle (tricycle) Lifan has a number of advantages. These include free access to the engine, several color decorations, affordable price and simplicity in service.
Tricycle Spark.
Consider some more freight motorcycles from different brands. Let's start a brief overview from the SPARK model. The modern tricycle with the body SP125TR-2 is very popular, thanks to the possibility of using in the agricultural sphere to move small cargo. The aggregate with folding sides and the dump truck is equipped with a four-stroke single-cylinder gasoline engine with liquid cooling. It has the power of twelve horse forces at 7000 turns per minute and the working volume of 125 centimeters of cubic.
Characteristics:
- The mass of the device is 280 kilograms at maximum carrying capacity of 0.5 tons.
- Length / Width / Height - 3.26 / 1.23/1 1.27 meters.
- Transmission - cardan type.
- Brakes - drum mechanism.
The features of the vehicle include the presence of sides, folded from three sides.
Foton FT-110 ZY
This brand is widely represented in the domestic market. The tricycle under consideration has the original design, has an affordable price and good characteristics.
- power unit - motor capacity of 110 cubic centimeters and a capacity of 8 horse forces;
- fuel consumption - about three liters per hundred kilometers;
- load capacity - up to 200 kg;
- limit speed - fifty kilometers per hour;
- the gearbox is a four-stage unit with reversed and reverse.
The Foton line also has more powerful versions that differ in engines, transmissions and lifting capacity.
New "ant"
The reanimized model of the famous Soviet tricycle is made by Soul. A copy of the legendary "ant" has the following features:
- the engine is a four-stroke motor;
- volume - two hundred cubic centimeters;
- power - 16.5 horse forces;
- the five-speed velocity box is equipped with rear transmission;
- there is a lightweight drive shaft;
- suspension - double spring system;
- the body of increased size;
- improved optics;
- reinforced front plug.
In addition, cargo three-wheeled Muraney Soul Motorcycles are equipped with a self-focusing board, can transport to seven hundred kilograms of cargo, easy to maintain and repair.
Harley-Davidson Tri-Glide Ultra
Engine:
Power:
Dry mass:
Saddle height:
t 2 430 000 rub.
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This is a real chrome royal throne, with the protection of the fireproof by the forefront and the dimensions of another small polybuga. It looks tri-glide more than richly and impressively, however, it does not leave you a chance of urban traffic jams. You will have to stand together with all with a significant view, as if you are pleased to swallow the exhausts of the surrounding cars, and only the fact that the camera smartphones are turned on with you.
Undoubted pluses
Under the conditions of urban traffic, alleys and narrow Parking Tri-Glide turns into a tormentor. Togo and look, they will forget and hook someone with the feed, or even turn over in a sharp turn - no multi-dimensional suspension and other amenities are provided in the trak, so it turns reluctantly and scary. However, on the rustic highway, there are no equal on the rustic highway: a fearful 1.7-liter engine is perfectly pulling the chariot, clingly clinging for the asphalt with three points of support, and the stability and stability of the device allows you to fall apart in a comfortable leather saddle as it swings. At the same time, the passenger is not even taken to take a nap.
CAN-AM Spyder RS-S
Engine:
V-shaped, ROTAX
Power:
Dry mass:
Saddle height:
from 999,000 rubles.
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"Damn, what was it?" - It exhales the affected man in the street, when a terrible squat creature sweeps past him, as if appeared from a fantastic blockbuster. Muscular and fried, this unit is the embodiment of rapidness and drive. True, in traffic jams on it, they are also not particularly walking, but in more or less free traffic, Spyder allows you to hooligate more than any hot hatch. Fortunately, motorists seeing tricycle in the mirror, readily take aside to see the wonder-car.
Undoubted pluses
It is important to torn in the middle row, bathing in the admiring eyes of others, it is unlikely that the tricycle provokes if not on an annealing, then, in any case, on a vigorous ride style. The combination of weight and a rotor motor makes it possible to turn the device into a natural rocket, and the semi-automatic gearbox and adhesion can not be distracted from maneuvers once again. And they, believe me, lightning room - in terms of controllability and turning for Spyder, do not get angry with any motorcycle and the more Traki: so rapidly change the direction of movement is capable of, perhaps, only a real spider.
No matter how significant, respectable and in my own remarkable apparatus, neither Tri-Glide, the prize of our sympathies receives CAN-AM Spyder - for doring, energy and safety with which we are famous in the next steep turn.
The world's first car was threefall. Currently, the tricycles slowly, but surely cease to be exotic and return to roads and in the garages. It would be necessary for what to return tricycles firmly substantiated in the Moto environment, but in the XXI century, three-wheeled cars can significantly fasten their four-wheeled "fellow" .
Almost any of the auto show from the stands with three-wheeled cars, crowds of people are consistent. If earlier manufacturers used tricycles only as bait, now, apparently, seriously will take it for their production, and the reason for this is trivial competition.
Cuno steam car, located in the museum of art and crafts in Paris
Tricycle (Trike) is a three-wheel vehicle with wheels, symmetrical with respect to its average longitudinal plane. The concept of "tricycle" is used to a large spectrum of vehicles: cars, motorcycles, bicycles. Two leading wheels are most often from behind, but they have ahead of them on some designs.
The tricycles appeared simultaneously with the locomotive and car. The first tricycle was a steam cart for the carriage of guns and shells, the tests of which were held in 1769. She invented the French engineer Nicolas-Joseph Cuno (Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot). The speed of movement of steam carts Kyuno was about 4 km / h and it could only move for 12-15 minutes, as a larger lacked steam. For further traffic, the cart had to "fill", i.e., pour water into the boiler and dilute the fire under it so that the water boils. There was no own firebox in the "car". But the steam cart made an impression on the military leadership of France, and the inventor received a reward of 20 thousand francs and the proposal to develop a more advanced design.
The next development of Kyuno was more powerful, it was more than six meters long, weighed about three tons, had its own firebox, a bronze 50-liter boiler and two cylinders.
Leon Sherpoll (left) on the steam tricycle
Now, under it, it was not necessary to breed a fire, and the Telve could move continuously at a speed of 5 km / h. During testing of the new design, an accident occurred: jammed the rear wheel. Kyuno did not cope with the control, and the TV arm broke the wall of the house at a speed of 4 km / h. Following the first failure, the second followed - his patron - the military minister - fell into disrespectfulness at the court, and all further work on the improvement of a new means of movement were cooled. Everyone forgot about the cart, and she stood for 20 years somewhere on the backyards. In 1794, the Museum of Arts and Crafts was created in Paris, and the steam cart Kyuno took her honorable place there. She and today you can see there. In the homeland Nicolas-Jose Kyuno, in Lorraine, he was set a monument, and the image of his cart was the emblem of the French Society of Automotive Engineers.
All XIX century steam cars were improved, they began to create as not only public, but also personal transport. An example of such a car is the three-wheel steam of Leon Sherpol, the tricycle sulfur instead of the furnace was equipped with a kerosene burner, and the water boiler turned into a serpent. This made it possible to reduce the volume of water used and engine warming time. In addition, the sickle installed on the tricycle elastic tires and used a cardan transmission in the car transmissions. But another time came, and the cars with a gasoline engine won over the steam. A steam car had to give up, although they were continued to be released before the end of the 30s of the XX century. In 1885, Karl Benz built his first gasoline tricycle. The crew on three cycling wheels was designed to transport two passengers and worked on gasoline four-stroke internal combustion engine. The total weight of the tricycle was 263 kg, of which 100 kg is the weight of the engine, which had a system of cooling evaporative type, i.e. The car was necessary to refuel gasoline and water. The rear wheels were driven by a belt and chains through a simple differential. The fuel from the tank of 4.5 liters was flowed into the evaporative type carburetor, then through the spool valve into the combustion chamber. The voltage on the spark plug of its own design was served from the Rumkor's coil.
Tricycle Charles Benz 1886
The operating volume of the engine was 954 cm3, and its power was 0.9 hp With 400 revolutions per minute, on a good road, it was possible to accelerate to 14 - 16 km / h. For industrial production in 1886, Benz installed the engine with a volume of 1.7 liters and with a capacity of 2.5 hp. and two-stage gearbox. Such engine power was enough to dispel a car up to 19 km / h. In the automotive museum in Munich (Germany), visitors can observe one of the three-wheel drive cars of Benz. At the beginning of the 20th century, thousands of cars have been chased on the roads, but they were too expensive for ordinary people. And the constructors-enthusiasts returned again to the tricycles, because they were constructively simple (they often did not even have the reverse) and have minimal taxes like motorcycles. So Henry Morgan in 1909 built a single car with a pipe frame, a V-shaped two-cylinder engine "Peugeot", a two-stage chain gearbox without rear and independent candle pendant front wheelchairs. New Machine Henry Morgan called "Morgan Runabout" ("Runner") and was not going to produce her serial. But numerous orders from acquaintances made him reconsider their plans. Having made money, he bought the necessary equipment and in 1910 launched small-scale production. And in 1915, Morgan became the largest automakers of Britain, by that time a four-hundred-four family model was already produced. Three-wheeled cars "Morgan" were loved in Britain for tax losses for motorcycles, easy weight and good dynamics.
MORGAN RUNABOUT 1912
In 1919, a car "Morgan Aero" appeared. A motorcycle V-shaped engine was installed in front and did not close the hood. In 1920, the windshield was installed on it and the rear part made more streamlined. Since 1923, Morgan Aero has already been produced already with brakes on all wheels, and from the beginning of the 30s on the car, a three-step transmission with the transmission of the reverse. Sports of machine modifications - "Morgan Aero Sports" and "Morgan Aero Super Sports" enjoyed great popularity for riders. In the USSR there were tricycles called motocoles. They were developed after the Great Patriotic War on the Kiev Motorcycle Plant (KMZ) for the needs of the disabled and were distributed through the social security system, therefore in the country and called "Wheelchair". They have been made only manual control and without heating.
Motocolus SMZ-C1L
In 1952, in the Soviet Union on the Serpukhov motorcycle plant (SMZ), the production of three-wheeled motocoles "SMZ S-1L" was launched, which came to replace the tricycle "KMZ K-1B". In the new motorcycle there was a metal body with doors and a tarp folding roof, and the steering wheel was a motorcycle type. The heating system was also absent, the lighting was carried out with only one six-pole, and a strong noise came from the two-stroke engine with a volume of 125 cm3. Also, the disadvantage of the Soviet tricycle was bad permeability of dirt and off-road due to the wheels of small diameter. The advantages can only be attributed to the ease of repair of motocoles. In the 30s in England, tricycles produced, in which all three wheels were in the same plane. They were intended exclusively for the army. Currently there has been a revival of interest in three-wheeled motorcycles, they gradually cease to be exotic. When driving on the tricycle, there is no equilibrium maintenance skill. Many producers have the development of these machines .... The Japanese company Honda created the model "Stream", in which the rear wheels remain perpendicular to the road, and the body bends like any motorcycle. The stability of such a model on the rotation turned out to be quite high.
Some Asian countries produce motorcycles and motors.
By the way, the tricycles include a motorcycle with a carriage, which has a wheel leading, this is "Dnipro-12" (USSR), BM8-P75 (Germany), FN-1000-125M (Belgium). Asymmetric design and some racing 500-cm motorcycles with a carriage. They have a common frame, and the engine is installed on the side, next to the third wheel. In such a design, one of the disadvantages of a symmetric tricycle is eliminated. The fact that the tricycle paves three different ruts, is considered its significant minus, since the roadless permeability decreases. The asymmetric design of the tricycle ruts is only two.
In Italy, Japan today produced tricycles-microhruzoviki and tricycles-delivered vans. In 1997, Mercedes-Benz introduced a three-wheel car in Frankfurt
In 2002, the American company Corbin Motors released a hybrid of a car and a Merlin motorcycle. The appearance of Merlin is original, he has no doors, the driver simply stepped over the board and sits down in the chair, or rather "enjoyed". The design of the car is different from the usual three-wheel chart, Merlin has two wheels ahead and one behind. Car speed is 210 km / h.
Venture Vehicle from Los Angeles has developed a device named VentureOne. This is a double tricycle, also a hybrid of a car and a motorcycle. Length - 3.6 meters, width - a little more motorcycle. The car for daily trips in the city stream turned out to be economical and prompt.
Fuel consumption is only 2.4 liters per 100 kilometers, and the maximum speed is 160 km / h. The main body of the machine can be tilted by 45 degrees in both directions, while the rear unit, where the power plant and the rear wheels remain perpendicular to the road. The slope of the body is controlled by the Dynamic Vehicle Control (DVC) hydraulic system, which has developed a Dutch company Carver Engineering.
Crowds of people are always going to the roadshow near the stands with three-wheelcase cars. Tricycles predict a big future. Small sizes, good characteristics and relatively low prices give reason to think that it is possible.
