Design and Development of Hubless Motorcycle with RLS

Most automobiles depend on conventionally available fuels for propulsion and with the present rate of consumption, the petroleum reserves would last for less than a century. This fact makes crucial the need to find alternative which can reduce the burden on petroleum reserves. In the present work, an attempt is made to reduce the weight inside the front wheel thereby bringing down the centre of gravity much closer to the ground. In this design, hubless wheel to transmit motion from bearings to the wheel. The motion from the inner gear ring is transmitted to the rim by the bearings. The bearings are held on a bolt whose ends are connected to the stationary plates. When the inner gear ring rotates it makes only the bearings to rotate on the bolts as the stationary plate is attached to the vehicle body. The rotation of bearings makes the rim to rotate and helps the vehicle to move. The proposed 15 inch Mild Steel rim makes the system less bulky and improves the handling. As we can see in the rear portion of a conventional motorcycle has a swing arm and a coil spring. In our design, an attempt is made to integrate the quarter leaf spring with the chassis. This design minimizes the amount of material, production and manufacturing cost of the company as this arrangement does the work of swing arm and of the coil spring by using only component i.e. the quarter leaf spring.