A fantasy steam punk machine which looks kinda cool, if that’s your thing, until you realize it can’t possibly exist, because it violates the laws of nature and logic. Continue reading Stooge 3-link truck: skating in never-never land
Major Arc is marketing a design that isn’t, and never could be, geometrically consistent. In this article, I explain what makes the design unworkable. The real question is whether they already knew about this. Continue reading Major Arc: a couple of problems
Here’s a couple of illustrations and a chart just to restate the obvious: tilt/turn is rake-agnostic. Continue reading Axle offset (aka rake): it doesn’t change axle turn
In this, I explain why the wheels travel the same distance, regardless of truck width. The main point is that the circumference of a circle is directly proportional to its radius. So, a circle with a radius x-times as long as another circle will also have x-times the circumference. So, the wheels trace curves of equal length on different truck widths. Continue reading Truck width: wheel travel
Changing Angles 