The gear type transmissions has good performance. And it can offer the proper rotating ratio to make the dynamical system and transmission of the vehicle obtain the good match result. Apply to the transmissions of various kinds of vehicles extensively. The purpose of this research lies in the five-speed gear type transmissions. And sets up the theory of a systematized design method. The type of carrying on the transmissions by way of systematization is designed, cam mechanism to design, shifter mechanism to design and dispose overallly systematically. At first, sum up the function that the transmissions and basic characteristic to the transmissions of existing motorcycle. Set up the design specification form of the transmissions. Secondly propose a systematized designing program and carrying on the design of the gear box. And then to the gear type transmissions, cylinder cam and shifter mechanism. And carry on the innovation of handling the organization to design with movement route analytic approach and morphology matrix. Dispose overallly the five-speed gear type transmissions. Finally, set up the type picture collection of the gear type transmissions, in order to benefit the design of the motorcycle gear type transmissions. The achievement of this research contributes to the cart the innovation of the five-speed gear type transmissions designed.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Canterbury, 2007. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 167-176). Also available via the World Wide Web.

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This thesis solves the stabilizing control of an autonomous motorcycle. The control of an autonomous motorcycle is a challenging and interesting problem in the field because the plant is under-actuated, unstable and nonlinear. Two major problems that have not been considered in the literature are explicitly solved in our work: (i) the robust control problem of the plant subject to uncertainty and exogenous disturbance; (ii) the non-local stabilization of the nonlinear plant. To achieve the first goal, we propose a robust H_infty controller based on the linearized system, which provides a significant improvement in dealing model uncertainty and disturbance attenuation in comparison with those controllers given by classical linear design tools. To achieve the second goal, we propose a nonlinear controller based on the combination of a nonlinear forwarding method with several other methods for the nonlinear plant through identifying an appropriate upper triangular s tructure of the nonlinear system. This yields a stability region, the whole upper space above the level ground, such that the trajectory starting from any position in the upper hemi-sphere with arbitrary initial velocities converges to the upright position. Both results are novel and first results of their kinds in control of an autonomous motorcycle. Computer simulations verify the effectiveness of the proposed controllers.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of British Columbia, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 261-268). Also issued online.

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Design motorcycle

Current literature in motorcycle culture depicts the possibilities for women within motorcycle culture as limited to that of a backseat bitch or second-class citizen. Despite all of the depictions of women in motorcycle culture in media, academic scholarship, and folklore, some women are riding their own motorcycles and participating in motorcycle culture as agents. Using social movement and space/place theories as a theoretical framework, this dissertation presents an interpretive ethnographic investigation of a women's motorcycle riding club in the Midwest. This research explores how this group of women riders became motorcyclists, details their experiences in motorcycle culture, and argues that a new social movement is evolving within it.

This paper focuses on the aspects of safety for the user of a motorcycle, why and how we ride, and how one can impact the general interest in motorcycles among a younger generation in Sweden today through design and technology. Further it stands to represent my own thoughts on the matter regarding what is the key element of attraction in a motor vehicle among young people today. This paper has worked as the base for my research during my bachelors’ thesis and also includes some of my personal thoughts surrounding my design process which ultimately resulted in a motorcycle concept aimed at the younger generations.