This is a weekly posting with GURPS vehicles (and the like) to the GURPSnet mailing list. I grant the permission for all non-commercial redistribution of my work, but I would like to know if you put it on a website or the like. My site is down for rebuilding, but sooner or later the old stuff should reappear at omeyer.gmxhome.de Onno Meyer, 2008-07-21
Multicycle v1.0 (GURPS Traveller TL5) Copyright 2008 by Onno Meyer Historically, bicycles and sewing machines drove the developmment of precision manufacturing. On other planets, the role might be filled by the Multicycle. It is a four-wheeled, muscle-powered vehicle with four seats arranged two by two and a luggage basket in the rear. All riders help to pedal the Multicycle, but only one has to pay attention to the road. The transmission and gearbox are oversized for human operators, allowing for errors in the design and wear and tear. Ordinary drivers can expect to do 10 or 11 mph on decent roads. Subassemblies: Body +2, four Heavy Wheels +0. Powertrain: 2-kW wheeled drivetrain; 2-kW muscle engine. Occ: 4 XCCS. Cargo: 10 cf open. Armor F RL B T U Body: 3/6 3/6 3/6 3/6 3/6 Wheels: 3/6 3/6 3/6 3/6 3/6 Statistics Size: 8'x4'x4' Payload: 0.5 tons Lwt.: 1 ton Volume: 80 cf Maint.: 551 hours Price: $1,317.5 HT: 9. HPs: 38 Body, 9 each Wheel gSpeed: 17 gAccel: 1 gDecel: 10 gMR: 0.75 gSR: 4 Ground Pressure Moderate. Off-Road Speed 1/4. Design Notes Body is 60 cf. Wheels are 20 cf (increased volume). Structure is extra-light and standard. Body armor is standard, open-frame, wood, wheel armor is standard metal. Primitive controls. 2.6 cf of empty space. Empty weight is 1,000 lbs. The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [second edition, third printing, Dec 2004 errata], Vehicles Lite, VXi and VXii (armor volume) with the text format from Vehicles Lite. The Traveller background affects the design decisions, not the technology. Next Week: A TL13 space freighter as the basis for a nanofactory ship. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
