MOTORCYCLE RIDING SIMULATOR

• US 3,686,776 A
• Filed: 04/12/1971
• Issued: 08/29/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 04/12/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Christian W. Dahl
• Original Assignee: Christian W. Dahl
• Inventors: Dahl, Christian W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Grieb, Wm. H.
• Application Number:
  US05/132,974
• Time in Patent Office: 505 Days
• Field of Search: 35/11 272/73
• US Class Current: 434/61
• CPC Class Codes: G01M 17/0076 Two-wheeled vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 9/058 for teaching control of cycles or motorcycles

Abstract

There is provided a motorcycle riding simulator comprising a supporting structure having crown rolls rotatably mounted thereon in longitudinally spaced parallel relation to one another for engagement with the front and rear wheels of a motorcycle to enable control and balancing of the cycle as the cycle front wheel is turned, and further having a motorcycle engaging center post swingably mounted on the supporting structure at its lower end and having a motorcycle engaging bracket pivotally attached to its upper end, the post being mounted for limited vertical movement and having means automatically controlling the downward and swinging movement thereof in accordance with the force applied to the post.

Claims

1. A motorcycle riding simulator comprising a supporting structure, crown rolls freely rotatably mounted on said supporting structure in longitudinally spaced parallel relation to one another for engagement with the wheels of a motorcycle, a motorcycle supporting post disposed between said rolls swingably attached at its lower end to said supporting structure for swinging movement in a direction generally parallel to said rolls, said post having means at the top thereof for attachment to a motorcycle between the wheels of the cycle to maintain the cycle in an upright position, means interconnecting said post and said supporting structure to normally maintain said post in an upright position and control swinging movement thereof, and driving means interconnecting said rolls with one another whereby rotation of one of the rolls by the powered wheel of a motorcycle causes the other roll to rotate.

2. A motorcycle riding simulator in accordance with claim 1 wherein means swingably attach Said post to said supporting structure to allow said post to move vertically so that the weight of the rider on a motorcycle carried by the simulator is transmitted to the wheels of the cycle rather than to the said post.

3. A motorcycle simulator in accordance with claim 2 wherein said post and supporting structure interconnecting means include downwardly angled extensible and retractable rigid elements pivotally attached at their upper ends to said post intermediate the ends of the post and pivotally attached at their lower ends to said supporting structure at opposite sides of said post in spaced relation thereto, said elements including compressible means normally holding said elements in extended position while permitting controlled retraction thereof in accordance with the force applied to swing said post.

4. A motorcycle riding simulator comprising a supporting structure, rolls freely rotatably mounted on said supporting structure in longitudinally spaced parallel relation to one another for engagement with the wheels of a motorcycle, a motorcycle supporting post disposed between said rolls, means swingably attaching said post at its lower end to said supporting structure for limited movement in a vertical direction and for swinging movement in a direction generally parallel to said rolls, said post having means pivotally mounted at the top thereof for attachment to a motorcycle between the wheels of the cycle to maintain the cycle in an upright position, means interconnecting said post and said supporting structure to normally maintain said post in an upright position toward its maximum vertical extension and to control downward and swinging movement thereof in accordance with the force applied to the post, and driving means interconnecting said rolls with one another whereby rotation of one of the rolls by the powered wheel of a motorcycle causes the other roll to rotate.

5. A simulator in accordance with claim 4 wherein said post and supporting structure interconnecting means include downwardly angled extensible and retractable rigid elements pivotally attached at their upper ends to said post intermediate the ends of the post and pivotally attached at their lower ends to said supporting structure at opposite sides of said post in spaced relation thereto, said elements including compressible means normally holding said elements in extended position while permitting controlled retraction thereof in accordance with the force applied to swing said post.

6. The simulator of claim 4 wherein said rolls are crown rolls.