THE THIRD WHEEL OF A “TOURIST”

THIRD WHEEL What motorcycles and scooters are not built lovers side trailers! To “IAM” and “Sunrise”, to the old “Zundapp” and a brand new “Vyatskaya-Electron”. Don’t refuse to add a third wheel to his car and owners of scooters “Tula 200”. Moreover, the power of the engine of the modern “Tula Tourist” is quite allow. Unlike many such trailers design, proposed by Vladimir Kovalev from Bryansk, draws a bold design, to strict compliance of the contours of the shape of a scooter, reliability and modern technology for manufacturing of the body. So, the side of the trailer to the “Thule Tourist”.

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COTTAGE-AMPHIBIAN

COTTAGE-AMPHIBIANWe have already talked about a jeep-climber, which could become a new kind of mountain transport (see “M-To” No. 12 of 1974). But machine-controlled trucks will be able to find application in the polar regions — to move through the ice zamorochena fields, and on water. At first, perhaps, as a small vehicle polar explorers and, later, as special cargo trasport type “water — ice” for the developing regions of Siberia and the North.

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SNOWMOBILE DRUM

Unusual marked the fiftieth anniversary of Pavlodar Amateur snowmobile technology A. M. Pukhov: on the snowy expanses of Irtysh he tested his new winter all-terrain vehicle. His snowmobile with the engine IZH-49 are controlled by a front ski, a mover — drum.

SNOWMOBILE FIRST, BUT A GOOD

THE SNOWMOBILE FIRST, BUT GOODThe author of this material — a pupil from the far Siberian city. When we received his letter with a description of the constructed ski-track of a snowmobile, he was 15 and he was in the tenth grade in high school. Now Eugene was older, more experienced and already a bit different, perhaps I would design the individual nodes his first ATV. But then in a letter to the editor it, recognizing myself as a newbie in the technical work, asked not to judge it strictly as a designer.

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RIDING FAN

This single machine with “air cushion” created in the engineering laboratory of the Leningrad Palace of pioneers named after A. A. Zhdanov. One engine from the motorcycle, rotate the fan creates the necessary pressure under the platform, the second, of bike air screw located behind the driver. The device weighs only 45 kg; the test Read more…

ON THE ROAD — “ELUSIVE”

The lens of the photographer, apparently, could not catch this fast-moving car, but the blurriness of the picture is emphasized driving dynamics and agility unusual in a racing car. It was built in the technical circle of school No. 68 of the city of Belorechensk in the Krasnodar region. The children together with the group Read more…