Lean steered vehicle
OwnerBarry MULDERinventor
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Golf carts are typically large and relatively heavy vehicles that either needs to be stored at the golf course, or to be transported home or to another golf course on a trailer. This adds cost and complexity to the use of a golf cart. And since golf carts are often used by people with limited physical strength, the handling problems become more significant. The disclosed vehicle minimizes these problems by providing a relatively simple and light weight vehicle that can be operated on golf courses, and which can be disassembled to fit into the back of a car, or can be mounted on a tow bar. The vehicle is lightweight, stable on golfing fairways and is simple to steer, due to an innovative lean steering system, in which the body of the vehicle is able to pivot in a controlled manner relative to both a front and a rear axle.
A lean steered vehicle, the vehicle having a vehicle chassis, and the vehicle chassis having a forward chassis member, an aft chassis member, and a longitudinal chassis member which is connected to the forward chassis member by a forward pivotal connection which is located at or adjacent a forward end of the longitudinal chassis member, and which is connected to the aft chassis member by an aft pivotal connection which is located at or adjacent an aft end of the longitudinal chassis member, and the longitudinal chassis member is configured to support at least one vehicle occupant, and the angle between the forward chassis member and the longitudinal chassis member, and between the aft chassis member and the longitudinal chassis member, are both controlled by rotating the longitudinal chassis member about a rotational axis.
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