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Monstrosity 620
Project By: TreMoto, LLC (tremotollc@gmail.com)
Web Site: http://www.TreMoto.com/
 The TreMoto concept was created by Eddie Smith and Rob McIver as our senior mechanical engineering capstone design project in 2009. The project has evolved from a dream to a patent-pending leaning suspension technology.
Back in the fall of 2008, we thought the Piaggio MP3 was a great idea that would be better applied to the Ducati Monster siting in our garage. Both of us have experience on the business end of a 2 wheeled vehicle crash, with broken femurs, arms, and feet to our names. We felt the leaning 3 wheeled platform offered the safety we needed, while actually increasing the performance we craved. Fast forward to 2010 and we are trying to bring the technology to market while paying off the credit card bills from the first prototype.
The many features of the TreMoto suspension system include the 45 degrees of cornering lean angle, fully adjustable independent suspension, and lean brake. The advantages of the leaning reverse trike are both safety and performance oriented. The leaning suspension gives it the cornering speeds of a motorcycle, with the increased stability, traction, and braking that a third wheel provides. The lean brake can be engaged in order to lock the lean of the trike, to be used to avoid high-side accidents and putting your feet down at stops. Low-side accidents are non-existent. The vehicle's capabilities both on and off road are amazing, doing things you'd never expect out of a 2 wheeler or traditional 3 wheeler.
For the project blog, visit http://monstrosity620.blogspot.com
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Monstrosity 620
(2002 Ducati Monster 620ie)
- Custom Chrome-Moly Frame Mods
- Custom Billet Aluminum Suspension Pivot
- Modified Laeger T-Pin Spindles/Arms
- Custom Composite Leaf Spring
- Kayaba Rotary Dampers
- Custom hydraulic lean-brake system
- Aprilia AF1 Sentesi Wheels
- Brembo Braking System
- and a never ending list of spacers, adapters, heim joints, and brackets that tie everything together...
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