Its from fresh99.com
http://www.fresh99.com
it’s actually one big wheel and 2 smaller supports wheels…for riding on railway track.
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(I think i’ll stick to unicycling for providing my skills 'n thrills:)
I wanna ride one!!!
Hopefully that is easy to get off the tracks though, if a train is coming and it takes forever to get that off, your screwed, or if your on a bridge with the train coming, your really screwed! =p
yeah that has “please splater me” written all over it.
its a bit pointless
i mean its just stupid
It’s novel, but it’s usefulness is completely limited by the number of safe and unused railroad tracks between you and your destination.
Safe and unused? Differing western definitions again. Asian perspective: In my home town the kids, and others, use the rail tracks as a resource. Small handcarts are far easier to push on a smooth rail than they are on rough roads. Therefore the tracks get used for short distance transit of both goods and people. The trains are merely a nuisance that have to be worked around. I have even seen a small enterprise that carried people into work in similar fashion for a small fee, kids running behind and providing motive power for a small wheeled platform with seats.
People also live, often illegally, within inches of passing trains.
Road/rail crossings are interesting too: poorly signed, were it not for the car wrecks that are sometimes piled up nearby as a warning against trains crossing the road.
Someone once told me that here in the UK, if you fit flanged wheels to your car, you are entitled to use it on the railway. However I seriously doubt the truth of this, but it was not April 1st, and the guy seemed quite serious. Research into the topic has proved fruitless for me.
Nao
dude my school blocked it for porno and adult reasons!!
ill check it when I get home.
I have had a similar idea in mind for many years but don’t have the knowledge or equipment to custom build something like that.
I always thought something like this would be a good way to travel into remote areas just as an adventure. However, in the USA, I think railroad rails are considered privately owned and it would be against the law to “borrow” their rails.
Glad to see someone else had the idea and thought enough of it to build one.
haha, sucka, mine didn’t…this place is cool
that looks sorta boring
I dunno. I think it looks kinda fun. If you rode long enough you’d get to see some country that only the engineer on the train gets to see. And I’m sure you’d hear the train coming in plenty o time to get off the track. I’d get worried on long bridges though.
attach some rockets to the bakc, then i’ll think its cool/
Google ‘railbike’ or ‘railbiking.’ Apparently the, uh, sport is widespread and has been around for a while, but is probably an even more obscure mode of transport than the unicycle. I’ve never actually seen anyone doing it. But then, I’m not around suitable railroad tracks a whole lot either.
actully its true in NZ there was a car released by ford called the “ford 10” its wheels were the right distance apart so if you took the tires off you could run it on the railway which some people did (illegally i might add)
are you from NZ dude? thought you were from oz
ok im from NZ i live in aus and im maori(yeah Te arawa)