LOL!
IMHO, the "Schweeb" lacks the versatility to become a successful alternative in the urban mass transit market. But I gotta admit, Geoffery Barnett deserves an A++ for creativity and imagination!!!
Posted on 03/04/2010 6:28:46 AM PST by Willie Green
ROTURUA, New Zealand (Reuters Life!) - It's economical, ecological and good exercise: a new human-powered monorail is attracting the crowds in New Zealand, and may become a new mode of transport within cities.
Geoffery Barnett combined a laid-back, recumbent bicycle with monorail technology to create the "Schweeb," whose name is derived from the German word "schweben" which means "to float" or "suspend."
Barnett said the marriage of the old and the new makes sense: he said recumbent cycling is faster than traditional, upright cycling, while a monorail is the safest, and possibly the only, way to get around congested cities quickly.
The Schweeb is also environmentally friendly, he added.
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Riders can get up to speeds of 60 kph (35 mph).
Apart from being a fun way to exercise and a tourist attraction, Barnett said the Schweeb can be used in parks, university campuses and for crossing over rivers.
(Excerpt) Read more at uk.reuters.com ...
LOL!
IMHO, the "Schweeb" lacks the versatility to become a successful alternative in the urban mass transit market. But I gotta admit, Geoffery Barnett deserves an A++ for creativity and imagination!!!
HMMm an enclosed glass tube in the middle of summer in Alabama. Only if you want to see how many people can be cooked to death in the shortest period possible.
Yep, it would be great to sit on the previous rider’s sweat...
Doesn’t look like there is any way to pass each other. Everyone wanting to go faster than you will be called a Schweebiac, and everyone holding you up will be called a Schweebiot.
Hat tip to George Carlin.
And we’ll have to watch out for drive by schweebings.
Or is it schweeb bys?
Great... pedel version of Futurama.
Not to mention an agwessive Schweeber....
That’s the first thing I thought of, only I’m in Central Texas. Lot’s of casualties in July/August.
I can’t schweeb 55!
My schweeb cycle does 185. I lost my schweeb license now I must drive.
Not sure if it works for rock and roll.
And, for the rest of us, there are cars.
Couldn’t do this here. Would violate the ADA.
Metrics......Making bicyclists think they are going really fast since the invention of the Kilometer.
If those guys are eating meat to get their energy they are destroying the planet!
how would a family use this? will there be multi person alternatives? One heart attack or injury would stop the whole thing.
Lots of issues to work out, but it is kinda neat for a resort etc.
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Would work as a band name tho: The Schweebs!!!!
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