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Who wants a railbike? (AKA Draisine)
Well, here's something that I'd never heard about before:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210609122054/http://rrbike.freeservers.com/main.htm
CHOO CHOO!
If you're new please join in and if you have questions pop them below and the forum regulars will answer as best we can.
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Radar tells me their closing speed, if they are slowing and how far away. Then I decide to say a prayer. The change of light pattern is incidental.
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Quite so, which is why our village 20mph zone covers the whole residential extent. Of course, enforcement is another thing..
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No, that's very doubtful while proper testing would be fully destructive.
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In that £1000 exactly scenario, beginners should probably be made aware that pedals will be extra.
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...and here's one in Belgium: http://draisines.ovh/index.php/en/parcours-en/
Bonus fact - they're named "Draisines" after Karl Drais the inventor of the original dandy/hobby-horse (precursor to bicycles).
That's just toooo good. Thanks for sharing dude!
how do you get photos into the original post?
Also you've crashed the internet or at least that little corner.
More likely it was Hacker News where I came across it (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27500787).
I've changed the link now to use the web.archive version so you can have a look.
It's easy enough to put an image into a forum post (and/or comments) by hosting the image somewhere (e.g. Imgur) and grabbing the link to the JPG/PNG and putting that in between a couple of IMG tags with square brackets.
...and here's one in the U.S. https://www.railexplorers.net/
Here's a Polish tourist cycle-rail-bus: https://poland.pl/tourism/active-leisure/draisine-trips-through-bieszczady-mountains/
I'm loving this design - bike and picnic table by the look of things:
Here's a link to more info on that if you speak Swedish: https://hemomkringvandring.se/2020/06/21/cykla-dressin-familjeutflykt-till-amal/
(some lovely photos on that site)
Added to bucket list.
I may have fallen down a rabbit-hole.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/shweeb-how-new-zealands-hyperloop-contender-became-a-theme-park-attraction/DVUF34W3EM3HHXWML2INVE6GVU/
(Dagnammit - I've been to Rotorua and had no idea that this existed)
These are in the Alps somewhere too. I would tell you exactly but as it was in the Sunday Torygraph travel supplement it's currently providing an absorbent area for our chickens to poop on, sorry
I use the one given to me free by Waitrose to collect the mud and general filth from the bike and my fettleing.
I sometimes catch myself reaing a bit, just because it's there, and I have to stop myself...
Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.