An automatic motorcycle stand inspired by the training wheels of children’s bikes

2023-12-17 14:09:59

The race of experiments and R&D&i departments to carry out revolutionary ideas is a fact. Honda, Yamaha, Ducati, they are all working to try to achieve the latest advances, and one of them is self-balancing systems to keep the motorcycle standing alone. Without going any further, a while ago Yamaha presented its idea, the AMSAS.

AMSAS was a new system that aimed to keep the motorcycle standing alone at speeds below 5 kilometers per hour. The AMSAS uses the information offered by the six-axis IMU and, consequently, autonomously and automatically balances the motorcycle while making use of the engine’s driving force to regulate its inclination, being able to move the motorcycle forward, backward and to the sides. Come on, take complete control of it.

Well The Chinese from Loncin, owner of the Voge brand, have made their own AMSAS, but in a simple way. At the moment it is a patent application that reflects that, sometimes, the simplest ideas can still succeed. Instead of expensive systems, Voge wants to balance the bikes with two wheels attached to the swingarm. In other words, a kind of training wheels like those you put on a children’s bicycle.

It does not have any complications like the Japanese ideas. This, in comparison, It uses two very simple, extendable wheels that work electronically and are fixed to the swingarm. As they are retractable, they open and allow the motorcycle to maintain balance. In principle it is a much more rudimentary idea, but in the end, it has the same objective: to keep the motorcycle alone.

Although the idea seems simple, it has some technical peculiarities that make it special. For example, The system has some sensors that measure the slope and unevenness of the terrain. In a quick reading it would allow the wheels to be deployed alone, and have them extend as much as necessary depending on the situation.

The idea is so simple that, from what the brand has reflected in its patent, it could be adapted to any motorcycle. Rather They seem to have patented two systems, one that comes standard with their motorcycles, and another that can be added optionally to any motorcycle that has only one requirement: that the swingarm has a double arm and is not a single arm.

The latter is a parallelogram system with two lateral connections. Its operation would be controlled by an electronic and manual control that would be placed on the handlebar.. By simply pressing it, both auxiliary wheels would deploy and the motorcycle would be balanced. So simple that it is scary, and without million-dollar investments in development.

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This option would have a direct consequence: to save weight (although it also adds weight), The new system would allow us to do without the traditional easel. In comparison, we would have it by pressing a single button.