First video of the model of the mechanism I created for allowing a trike to provide some balance assistance (mainly for when riding slowly, as happens often when climbing steep hills), but still tilts so that riders can hopefully ride downhill quickly without fear of rollover.

The basic idea is that a cam rotates based on the tilt-angle, and the cam gets "smaller" at certain angles and "bigger" at other angles. This allows the cam to adjust the height of the rear of the trike as a function of the tilt angle. If the cam is shaped such that the height of the rear of the trike rises (hopefully just a little), then gravity provides a self-centering force. This force can be made stronger or eliminated by changing the shape of the cam without changing any of the rest of the mechanism.

The bicycle to which the tilt assembly is attached is a simplified model of a Cruzbike Silvio.

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