pedal driven landyacht wheel????

lil'stig and i have just completed our stack of wheels for the coming season
and realized there wasnt enough resin left for another 26" wheel , so we decided to try another experiment thats been bugging us for a while now.
would it be possible to incorporate a derailleur hub into a glass/ally composite 20" wheel?

This would theoretically lead to a bicycle built from broken carbon masts or even a front or back wheel on a landyacht that could be driven as well as sailed

I will use use 2 rims ,glassed together, but as the hub is 57mm wide im using a 32and a 25mm rim glued together
the hub has been stripped back to expose the spoke attachment holes which will be the anchor points to the glass

ive made 2 molds, one to seatthe hub and another to be used for making a backing disk when the second disc is attached

the materials will be all the chopped strand offcuts from making all the other wheels

heres the first two discs laid out . i found some nylon peel ply in a box of bits and have laid that on to give a good glueing surface later

rims have been glassedand ready for next step

The derailleur hub works fine that is what aus230 and aus4 use. we had them on our front wheels at lefroy we used the back wheel brake unit so that we could use it as a hand brake(that was aus4 idea) worked fine.
Are your yachts back yet.
Cheers
Vic

I am pretty sure 32cc will put it in a class that requires registration under state laws,

Electric and petrol assist are supposed to be under 200watts output to sneak past the registration red tape.
Almost all the petrol assist kits you see on pushies are technically illegal.
Paul did a bit of research about landyachts on the road- sail only is not permitted, but sail assist is ok- so if you had some form of pedal power that would make the sail OK!

The way I see it, if you can figure out some form of pedal power- then you can get away with sail and electric or petrol assist.

Might be worth checking out though in case the police interpretation of the law and regulations has changed- and get it in writing!

If you want to do an electric driven front wheel- I have an electric bike about to be turfed out- apart from dead batteries its electrics are ready to roll.

stephen

EDIT:
I just checked on the Z Box (conversion kit supplier), and W.A. Govt. DPI websites- for pushies, the maximums are listed as 200 watts or 1/4 horsepower output and a maximum speed of 25kph.
32cc might be OK after all!

Hi Stephen, that is interesting about the allowable vehicle. I commonly do the wrong thing and have a go anyway and would never have imagined a sail assisted unit was allowable. Is there anything that Landyacht hasn't tried?. The offer of the old bike is tempting, we are over in Warrnambool at the moment visiting family before Xmas, back late on 17thDec. Can I give you a PM about it before then? Ideal winds here the past week, should have smuggled over my yacht in a suitcase. Hope your near neighbours have been able to stayed hooked after the hobbies display..wok

Thanks Aus, Impressive , dont like fabric coccun, maybe aircraft style alluminium fabrication, or even moulded plastics would to me be more appealing. Goes well though and seeems very forgiving. I do like 8/10.....

Its not your back pedal brakes Vic, its a derailleur hub, 6 gears!!!!no brake.
Ive had a couple of thoughts , 1 a carbon mast pushbike and 2 a recumbent trike with the front wheel pedal driven mast behind the operator ala iceflyer.
. that idea wouldnt require such a beefed up wheel.
there are a few set up ive seen where the pedals and steering are up front and have front wheel drive.
part of this is to build a small,very light machine that could carry a load on a road, but not have the "bad "orientations that ive seen on others
and yes the crate is just through the suez!!!!!paperwork has been fedexed,ship due in freo 29th dec