As with most HPV design projects, once you have worked out roughly where, and how, the rider is going to be seated you have to work out what size wheels you are going to use, plus, how many. There’s no point designing a super low and slim body if there is only room for 12” wheels, unless of course you decide to use 12” wheels.
The design that I have decided to use for theBloomingPoint (tBP) is a three wheeler, or multi track design. The reason for this is that after watching a number of videos of failed attempts at getting 2 wheeled HPV’s of the line, and some high speed crashes caused by the riders being court out by sudden gusts of side winds.
The other reason is down to the chosen riding position that I am going to use for tBP. Whereas most of the more successful HPV’s use a two wheel design with the rider sitting in a recumbent position, ie, feet forward, tBP however will have the rider laying in a prone position, head forward, similar to the position you would be in when riding a normal bike with time trail bars, just with your feet further back and higher up. Although in tBP the rider will be a lot lower to the ground than on a normal bike.
