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You have one of the nicer velomobili here, you'll find a lot of Coroplast.
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Actually mine is an old classic
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Will you be documenting your own progress or looking for suggestions from others?
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More of the latter and especially regarding details on aerodynamics. Mostly because i actually tried a lot, and with very limited succes.
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I think it needs some sort of fish tail.
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Which will unfortunately break the design idea, but you are right. I am going to discuss a prototype later on.
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Are you limited by regulation or weight?
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With a velomobile You are ALWAYs limited by weight. Mostly Your own one ;-) No, as long as it remains a bicycle we can almost do whatever we want. I actually removed an old electric support which is not legal according to current regulations (too fast with fresh battery).
regarding your design idea:
You are aware that the open front wheels will be an aerodynamic disaster?
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Based on that, I'm going to add skegs to my design.
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Apparently You are mostly interested in velomobiles for every day use. Are You aware of the Leiba Classic?
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One more thing... 2022-02-22 Arcimoto will introduce their Platform2. A new 'micromobility solution' in the US$2-3K price range. That should be interesting.
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For people in the USA. But here in Europe similar solutions start evolving - Renault Twizzy, Citroen AMI are already on the road and bicycles like the Podbike Frikar and the Quadvelo - heavy 4 wheeled Pedelec bicycles - with weather protection - are said to go into production this year
(Unfortunately i need to refer to some image search...)