French company #Seabike has developed a swimming device that uses your own leg power to accelerate you through the water at superhuman speeds.
This crank-driven pusher prop looks a bit like an #underwater#unicycle...
The idea is simple enough; you extend the Seabike's pole to the appropriate length, then strap it to your waist with a belt. Then you find the pedals with your feet, and start turning the crank, with the waist strap to push against. https://newatlas.com/marine/seabike-swimming-propeller/
@cdarwin How does it compare to fins? I can already move at "superhuman speed" (whatever that may mean) underwater with regular old fins on my feet which I always thought were about the most elegant propulsion devised by man. Is this better in some way?
"I'm leaving the #train at the next stop. Please check if you have your wallet. If not the person with the reflective yellow jacket and the little clown bike in the first carriage is holding it for you."
Context: I found a wallet and tried to hand it to the conductor. He instead told me to hang on to it as it's likely to be from someone still on the train, and as he's leaving I'm holding on to it for now. He also said how much he likes Bromptons..
Just passed a bunch (all?) of the Protos trains. Among the ugliest (and that's me being objective) passenger trains in history we're lucky there's only six (as the manufacturer went bankrupt).
Also there's no toilets. And they were commissioned with a "disco compartment"
Here's some excellent, successful trains. Three ICMm "#Koploper" units in Zwolle. Constructed 30 to 35 years ago they've travelled millions of kilometers.
They have toilets, nice open walkways and comfy seats.
@bicripple: In Germany there exists the term "Spezialrad", i.e. "Special Bike", mostly in the form of the Spezialradmesse (Special Bike Fair) which once was defined as for all bikes which don't have a diamond frame. At some point e-bikes became part of the fair, too.
Then again, there's the discussion that many of those "special bikes" are not really special anymore, e.g. cargo bikes and e-bikes are quite common these days.
@xtaran@bicripple the "Ordinary" was the bike with a large front wheel and fixed pedals, and then came the "safety bicycle" with the triangular frame. In any case, Extraordinary seems not to be a great or very correct term for the non-safety bicycles (also not a great term) so I'm no help. 🤷 I tend to just mention #cargoBikes or #adaptiveBikes as two kinds of atypical cycle that need to be considered in #BikeParking. At least that covers extra width or length consideration, sorry tallbikers.
We had to do a security update. These always include an image on the blog post but there was nothing special that I needed to show, so I just added a picture of @mariap's skis on the desktop blog post 🤷
You all knew I would do it right? I did have to walk long sections. Some of it was the snow but more often than not it was stuck cars or slow walking pedestrians getting in my way. I feel the city council needs to make a law that slow moving vehicles and pedestrians should move out of the way for us fast moving unicyclists!
Been quite a while since I was proficient at unicycling and I've never tried mt biking on one. It looks interesting, but I think I’d miss blasting carefree downhill, doing little jumps, and not having broken bones. ‘;^)
There's people that unicycle on our (rough) mtb trails. One year the kid and I were hiking in the middle of winter when a guy went by on his unicycle, through the snow, his dog on a leash beside him. 🥹
This is nothing like the intended final configuration. It is lacking a brake and has a wheelset that is too small but I just wanted to quickly put something together for the sake of "trying out" the new frame. I just used the spare parts I had to hand.
Nonetheless since it is rideable I might use it like this for tomorrow's commute, just for fun. 😉