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David Bruce
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David Bruce has build and ride videos featuring custom made recumbent FWD trikes ( Front Wheel Drive ) under the name of dbtrikes from Florida. We have a website of the same name: dbtrikes dot com. Currently prototypes are built and waiting to be assembled. Custom made hand crafted vehicles present some challenges and we are pushing through them. Dave
DBT4 FWD Race Trike
A short video of the new FWD race trike I fabricated to test some changes to the driveline.
A beautiful Saturday morning on the West Orange Trail riding with some recumbent trike enthusiasts.
A short video taken with my iPhone 4s. I thought I would make a short clip as I have not uploaded anything in a while.
More info at my site www.dbtrikes.com
A beautiful Saturday morning on the West Orange Trail riding with some recumbent trike enthusiasts.
A short video taken with my iPhone 4s. I thought I would make a short clip as I have not uploaded anything in a while.
More info at my site www.dbtrikes.com
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2014 Florida Challenge HPRA Velodrome Trike Race
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2014 Florida Challenge HPRA Trike Race, February 8-9th 2014 This is the first racing event of the year for the HPRA series, held at the Brian Piccolo Park in Cooper City, Florida. Sunday's events were a 200 meter sprint, the dreaded Kilometer (time trial) and lap races with recumbent bikes and trikes. This is more of a personal video with over the shoulder video of the 200 meter sprint and insi...
2014 Florida Challenge HPRA Trike Race
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2014 Florida Challenge HPRA Trike Race, February 8-9th 2014 This is the first racing event of the year for the HPRA series, held at the Brian Piccolo Park in Cooper City, Florida. Saturday's events were a One Mile TT (time trial) and 20 minute timed races with recumbent bikes and trikes. Later in the afternoon were 200 meter sprints and "last man out" races on the outdoor road course. A lot of ...
Zapple Human Power Festival part 2
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From the HPV archives! A show that inspired me to become a trike builder! Part two segment has more with Mike Burrows, the engineer behind the Windcheetah recumbent tricycle and some HPV racing highlights. There is a short segment on human powered water craft as well. I believe this is from 1988 or 1989. Part Two. David Bruce aka scbvideoboy on the BROL forum www.dbtrikes.com
Zapple Festival of Human Power
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From the HPV archives! A show that inspired me to become a trike builder! Also on this part one segment is an interview with Mike Burrows, the engineer behind the Windcheetah recumbent tricycle. I believe this is from 1988 or 1989. Part One. David Bruce aka scbvideoboy on the BROL forum www.dbtrikes.com
DBT4 FWD Recumbent Trike Assembly
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A brand new 2013 build and assembly video! We do another "dry fit" video on the new DBT4 FWD Trike. We explore the wheel hub and some of the steering details. Part Two of the dry fit assembly videos on the FWD trikes being hand crafted. We raced the new front wheel drive prototype at the 2013 HPV Race America event velodrome in February 2013 and generated a lot of buzz at the 2013 Catrike Rally...
DBT4 FWD Recumbent Trike Walkaround
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A brand new 2013 build and assembly video! We do a brief walk around on the new DBT4 FWD Trike. We explore the new trike prototype and describe some of the features. More detailed videos will be coming for each section. We raced the new design prototype at the 2013 HPV Race America event velodrome in February 2013 and made a splash at the Catrike Rally! We have been working on new "production" ...
DBT4 FWD Recumbent Trike Build Assembly Series!
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A brand new 2013 build and assembly video! We do a dry fit on the new DBT4 FWD Trike. This short video shows some assembly of the internal differential and provides a brief look on the new front wheel drive recumbent design. We raced the new design prototype at the 2013 HPV Race America event in February 2013 and have been working on new "production" units this year. We've been getting a lot of...
Velodrome Racing, Florida Challenge 2013
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2013 Florida Challenge HPRA Race, February 23-24 2013 This is the first racing event of the year for the HPRA series, held at the Brian Piccolo Park in Cooper City, Florida. Sunday's events were held on the velodrome. Featured events on this video are: 200 meter sprints and the 50 Lap Bike race. A lot of fun! Fast or slow doesn't matter, as long as you have a good time! David Bruce aka scbvideo...
2013 Florida Challenge Road Course Trike Race
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2013 Florida Challenge HPRA Trike Race, February 23-24 2013 This is the first racing event of the year for the HPRA series, held at the Brian Piccolo Park in Cooper City, Florida. Saturday's events were a One Mile TT (time trial) and 20 minute timed races with recumbent bikes and trikes. Later in the afternoon were 200 meter sprints and "last man out" races on the outdoor road course. A lot of ...
2013 Florida Challenge
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2013 Florida Challenge HPRA Bike Race, February 23-24 2013 This is the first racing event of the HPRA series, held at the Brian Piccolo Park in Cooper City Florida. Saturday's events were a Mile TT (time trial) and 20 minute timed races with bikes and trikes. Later in the afternoon were 200 meter sprints and "last man out" races on the outdoor road course. This short video features parts of the...
2012 Horrible Hundred Bike Event, Part 2
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33rd annual Horrible Hundred Bike Ride. Part 2 of the 35 mile route. Over 2200 riders showed up for this great event. Three different ride lengths are available depending on your fitness: 35, 70 and 100 miles. So, if you couldn't make it down for the ride, hopefully my video will allow you to experience some of the thrills of the Horrible Hundred! Part 2 video features highlites from the SAG st...
2012 Horrible Hundred Bike Event
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33rd annual Horrible Hundred Bike Ride. Part 1 of the 35 mile route. Over 2200 riders showed up for this great event. Three different ride lengths are available depending on your fitness: 35, 70 and 100 miles. The 35 mile ride has over 2200 feet of climbing and as I'm not 'crazy' I only do the 35 mile loop. Maybe a year of serious riding I'll be able to do the 70 mile loop. So, if you couldn't ...
Withlacoochee Trail, Rails to Trail Bike Ride
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Withlacoochee Trail 2012 Rails to Trail Bike Ride. This is our ride video from October 7th 2012 on the beautiful Withlacoochee Trail in Florida. Our ride starts at the Inverness Trailhead and we ride south for 30 miles and come back. This video features the ride south. The ride back will be shown later. Some of the local recumbent group showed up and we had 6 trikes on the trail and I brought t...
Catrike Rally 2012, FWD Trikes, Recumbent Trikes
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Catrike Rally 2012. This is my video from the March 3rd 2012 Catrike Rally from Winter Garden Florida. Last year I shot a lot of video and had to redo a lot due to bad audio, so this year I tried to shoot the rally a little different. We rode the second handmade FWD Recumbent Trike prototype and received a lot of attention, so much interest that I actually missed the start with the front group ...
Withlachoochee Trail, 2012 Clean Air Ride, Recumbent Trikes
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Withlachoochee Trail, 2012 Clean Air Ride, Recumbent Trikes
West Orange Trail and Catrike 2011 Rally
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West Orange Trail and Catrike 2011 Rally
Hey Bruce, if you're still around, I was wondering if I could pick your brain about those axles you use on your fwd trikes. I'm trying to make a lightweight velocar/cyclecar and have been looking for something similar to what you've crafted.
Why?
A Velomobile Milan going back in time to 1985, would be faster than these !
If it weren't for these the Milan probably wouldn't exist... ;)
It makes sence having front wheel drive because more wieght is on them then on the back wheel...
That front derailleur has quite the jump between gear rings
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Hello David, Could you build a frame for me? Thanks, Giovanni
Your trail videos are awesome & informative about all of the local Florida trails. Where I live currently we only have a few trails with decent scenery, but nothing like what you have in Florida. You have me very excited about riding all of the bike trails when we move there. I've been roller skating (real quad roller skates not those blades) & biking now more often for a few years now. I also do HIIT training on my home elliptical machine & also have an outdoor elliptical bike to get into better shape (I've done 21 miles on our trails on that beast a few times). I want to get into better shape before we move to Orlando in the future. I'm retiring from my job in a few years & am moving to Orlando to work part-time at Disney. Could you tell me some really close places to Disney where we could move where I would not have to cross I-4 to get to work (we are having trouble narrowing down where to search for a new house)? Are there other trails in the Orlando area that you could highlight in the future ? Thanks again for everything that you do with your channel.
Any details of the Sinclair C5 race held in 1985? Would love to know more about this!
Would be interesting to see how the pivot point/shock in the middle effects control dynamics and ride at speed.
I've never seen anyone use a pin as a key. This doesn't seem to be a good idea.
What a great evolution since the S-327! I wonder though, why mechanical front brakes when hydraulics have so much better modulation, especially when running a dual set-up?
Nice project! And ... weight?
37 lbs
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Bellissima
Are there CAD files available?
Wonderful design.
Wonderful...
Bad picture quality
Blowing through stop signs. What as pro
Can wait to see it test film
Inspiration good to me sir #DavidBruce Thanks a lot
Very Cool!
I like you video and you created... #DavidBruce imagination for me for make one like yo do. Can you send me detail of you bike front wheel.. please sir
What design work and what quality of construction !!!
HoLa me gusta mucho lo que hiciste, me gustaría hacer lo mismo tienes planos que me los compartas ?
You have done some impressive engineering here and my hat goes off to you. That being said, there are so many possible ware and tare points of failure with so many store-bought parts that have been modified service would inevitably become a nightmare. If this trike is only for you're sole use I see no problem and say well done but if you intend on selling them I truly would have reservations. Its a beautiful bike none the less, well done. I hope over the years you have realized and addressed the concerns I have raised here as its an interesting design. There is a reason multi-wheeled front-wheel-drive anything has been a pain in the azz and that is because if its complexity vs rear-wheel drive. I'm in no way saying the rear-wheel-drive is better just it is simple with few points of failure. If you can produce quality standardized replacement parts to customers without delay I can foresee success but if not I foresee a lot of aggravated customers in your future.
Thanks for showing the CV shell! I want to build a front wheel drive quad bike / velomobil and been trying to figure out how a CV shaft works. Yours is really nice and compact. Beautiful machined. I'm hoping to find an affordable set of differential and CV shaft light enough for a quad bike. What I don't understand is that you have a CV joint (Rzeppa? Weiss?) on one side and a cardan joint on the other side. From what (little) I understand this wouldn't lead to a constant velocity shaft. Or you'd need a double cardan joint on the wheel side.
Where you can find a dealer for or you have to order online 😍
David, update please.
I know this video is 6 years old but, dbtrikes.com is no more. I wonder what happened?
Look Mom no hands street legal got to love it spring is coming
Yup!!!@ some took the time!!!
And finally, where did you get the green and yellow polyurethane springs/dampers from again? And also the metal pieces that press against them?
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Believe me I'm impressed, but can you elaborate a little, please, on why you went through all this effort? I can tell that you really wanted to see this to completion, but can you tell us more about what your motivations were? I'm just gobsmacked here.
Did you cook up that suspension mechanism yourself, or did that come from elsewhere? If elsewhere, I'd sure appreciate knowing where that was.
Its state-of-the-art computer aided engineering with a little finesse a whole new frontier but try to add the suspension and you add a ton of weight I like it slick lean with new Concepts that's my opinion no big deal
@@chuckeynewkirk199 check out the David Ashenbrener recumbent tilting trike
Hi David do you make the trike its really well built if you do make the trike I just want to ask if you can do ships it to Canada and how much it is thank you
Hi David Bruce, your trike is great! i am planning to build a 4 wheeler in brazil myself. my traction will be rear. how did you do or find this differential axle and the transmission bars to the wheel? could you give me a hint? sorry for english and translation. thanks!
That is an awesome trike. I wonder, what are the advantages of forward wheel drive compared to a rear wheel drive setup? I suspect that you can't climb steep hills with this setup (while climbing hills 60% of trike + rider weight will be distributed at the rear wheel). So would it make sense to go 3WD (three wheel drive)?
Good thinking 99, if a little difficult to pull off! That would certainly cap off an already beautiful trike especially for those with traction problems in the snow..
Utah Trikes made a three wheel drive.
This is excellent. I hadn't heard of this event before, and I love recumbents, and faired bikes. Great upload, cheers!
where can i get that mechanism
Very nice! Amazing quality!-Where did you get such axels for front drive and differential? Thanks in advance!
Awd 🤔
nice engineering !
Hi David, constructing a traveltrike myself and am searching for a nice smal cv-joint, like you made in this video. You don´t have one lying around to sell me or found an industrial equivalent?
Great looking machine but where is it? The website you list is not working.
As of 2019, are any of these front drive differentials available for sale? Is anyone producing them?
Can I have this bike please