I Built a Split wheel Motorcycle, But will it work?

Hey guys, just wanted to say that the reason for the bouncing up and down is due to the change in leverage. Since one of the wheels is further back it has more mechanical advantage over the suspension due to the increased distance of the swingarm

Hey guys, self appointed B&B R&D Engineer here: I think part of the issue is the transition of one tire to the other. Perhaps in the example videos, their design wasn't a precisely half of a wheel but instead 60% (or something) so that both tires would have larger contact with pavement during transition. Right now with tires being 50% there's only the ends of the tire touching pavement and essentially squishing because there isn't the same distribution of weight as say the centre of the half tire compared to the end of a half tire. So perhaps the solution is to make the tire completely solid somehow so it doesn't squish and create a hop; that or a combination of cutting the wheel at 60%. BUT WAIT, there's more, MAYBE the suspension itself is an added obstacle and simply making it a hard tail like a road bicycle would remove the need to work around the suspension.

I feel like bro wasn't riding a bike bro was riding a horse

Imagine your chain snapping or coming off on a split wheel motorcycle.

I think you guys achieved making a motorcycle feel like you're riding a horse again.

just wanted to say that the most posible reason for the bouncing is due to lack of Blinker Fluid, very common on those bikes 👌

I see someone actually drilling a pilot hole? Automatically 10x better than any others channel in this lane

It'd be so cool and funny to see a dude just riding this past you down the street.

Who else is here early to see if it works

the suspension is engineered for a specific swing arm length, when you transition to the half wheel in the farthest back the swing arm is basically longer and the lever effect on the suspension is greater, so it compresses more and so on.

I got an idea. Put those two half tires together and make it one tire! That way there's no difference of weight distribution and bumping up and down.

Someone said “you don’t need to re-invent the wheel” to this guy and he took it personally

The suspension will compress more when the weight is being suspended on the different axles. It's like holding a weight close to your body and then trying to hold the same weight at arm's length. The only fix that springs to my mind is to in some way have the 2 rear wheels have independent suspension. That way, you can adjust each to compensate for the differing load.

This was amazing! The bumpiness is due to the two wheels exert different leverages on the swingarm due to different distances from the fulcrum (point of rotation). Thus the spring compresses more when the weight of the bike is on the wheel that is farther away from the fulcrum, and less when the weight is on the closer wheel.

on the bounce. the longer the frame, the more sag you have in in. your frame is going from 5 ft to 6 ft and back again, constantly. not to mention the tips of the tires aren't properly supported and so will bend more than the uncut middle adding even more bounce and reducing the time you have before the tire overheats from flexing.

I can't believe that actually worked! 😂 😂

Instead of cutting the tires where you want them leave a bit more rubber on each end then bend that piece back so the loss of contact with the ground is more gradual. Also suspension to the end would keep it in contact better. Excellent video

This man's actually going for a world record first! Without Guinness!

Your rearmost wheel has to be in line with the swing arm. Youll have to find exact centre where the swing arm rotates on the frame and have it in line with that and the other wheel

the "up and down" thing its because motorcycles have suspension while bikes dont, this was a mayor design oversight you made, the solution is to remove the suspension entirely, or the fancy solution is to calculate how much you have to compensate for the weigh differential between both distances of the wheels in relation with the center of mass.