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Spiders feel inefficient.
With eight legs and all.
With eight legs and all.
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Have you talked to a spider? The ones that scurry away from me sure seem to be doing ok.
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Three legs or wheels for stability.
You should see some videos on 3 Wheeled ATVs and how disastrous they are. Watch some more on the "interesting" handling characteristics of sidecar rigs. I'm honestly not sure if reverse trikes fix most of the problems or not. They might, they're certainly more prevalent today. But they're also quite big with rather low centers of gravity, so, not sure how well they scale up.
Reverse trikes are far more stable, assuming front steering and a reasonable center of mass. The rider-astride ones don't generally have a reasonable center of mass, and therefore generally have active stability control (or they tilt the front suspension to facilitate leaning into turns).
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Recent events have convinced me quads are the better option than trikes.
But this is more an issue of efficiency.
But this is more an issue of efficiency.
Six wheels best.
It's still cool, though.
Especially for wilderness ops. Isn't there one in The Traveller Book? Ah yes, page 28.
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