Design of a Manually Operated Detachable and Retractable Roof for Two-Wheeler Activa

Abstract

Today rider needs more comfort while driving the vehicle because of the increase in the living standards. In the rainy season when someone needs to be at some other place and that too in the heavy traffic, it becomes hard to deal with such situation. In order to cope up with this situation the concept of a retractable roof for the two-wheeler is proposed. A retractable roof is basically provided to mount on a 2 wheeler Activa. The roof is made up of a flexible waterproof canopy which is supported by a tubular metal frame structure secured to the Activa. Before actual manufacturing of the structure, CFD analysis needs to be done to decide the inclination of links and to analyses the structure of roof under drag. The retractable roof is made up of links. Each link is made up of three pieces. The ends to be pivoted were pressed up to 15 cm, as all the five links should be pivoted together otherwise the ends would have created problems while folding and unfolding of the structure. Every link consists of three pieces was joined at two points in required angle.