Motor vehicles – Special wheel base – Five or more wheels
Patent
1975-07-31
1977-01-18
Betts, Kenneth H.
Motor vehicles
Special wheel base
Five or more wheels
180 72, 280104, 280112A, B62K 2500, B60G 1900
Patent
active
040034437
ABSTRACT:
An independent rear suspension and drive system for a motorcycle having a steerable front wheel and a laterally mounted pair of rear wheels, including a transverse driveshaft having a differential connection with the engine, a pair of trailing-links journaled on the drive-shaft and mounting the respective rear wheels pivotally about the driveshaft, a pair of driveshaft output sprockets respectively on opposite sides of the differential, a pair of chains operatively connecting the driveshaft output sprockets with respective wheel drive sprockets, and a transverse arm centrally pivoted to the frame and having at each end a dashpot connecting to a respective trailing link; associated dashpot spring means is arranged to be determinative of the combined trailing link positions relative to each other, but not to the motorcycle frame.
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Betts Kenneth H.
McClellan, Sr. John F.
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