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The acronyms that are used to describe trikes
are:
xFyT : where...
"x" is the number of wheels in front.
"y" is the number of wheels that tilt.
Easy to tell which tilt and which don't.
Carver is a 1F1T, the two rear tires don't tilt. Can Am Spider is a 2F0T.
Piaggio MP3 is a 2F3T. And an old non-tilting 3-wheel ATV is a 1F0T.
You can extrapolate the rest.
TTW: Tilting Three Wheeler
STV: Single Track Vehicle (ie. motorcycle).
SS: Simple Steer, steered like a car.
CS: Countersteer, steered like a motorcycle (fine details and exact definition still debated).
MCS: Manual Countersteer, manually controlled countersteer, again like a motorcycle.
ACS: Automatic Countersteer, vehicle performs countersteering through some automatic means separate from the driver's steering input.
T/S: Fixed Tilt/Steer, vehicle has a fixed ratio between tilt and steer angles.
Only good over a relatively small speed range because proper tilt angle for a given turn radius increases with speed.
VSTV: Multitrack vehicle (3 or more wheels not in a line), where there is no control over the tilt angle other than by countersteer.
It generally behaves as if there was an imaginary wheel midway between any pair of wheels.
(Piaggio MP3, Calleja, etc.)
FT: Forced
Tilter, where vehicle which has some form of control over its tilt angle (hydraulic, electric, mechanical) acting on chassis members across the pivot.
(Carver, Brudeli, etc.)
Free Leaner: Vehicle has no control over tilt angle besides countersteer. VSTVs are generally Free Leaners.
FTC: Free To Castor, A system where one or more castoring wheels are allowed to follow the normal steered path imposed by natural forces only (trail, gravity, speed, traction, inertia, centrifugal, gyroscopic, rolling resistance, etc.) but are not directly affected by the driver's control input.
A bicycle ridden hands-off and steered by body weight shift is steering by FTC.
Aaron D.
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