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Hawker
03-30-2011, 01:46 PM
Very cool, perhaps on college campuses and maybe some downtown areas? I like it!

http://factlets.info/SkyBike
jh_on_the_cape
03-30-2011, 01:50 PM
why is that better than a bike path? you cant pass or walk or rollerblade. or segway! which changed the world forever.
cdn_bacon
03-30-2011, 01:54 PM
It's all fun and games till someone rides slow in the fast lane and the person behind them is late for their exam...
benb
03-30-2011, 02:34 PM
Normals will never use it.. it looks slower then normal cycling. That means more sweat, and no one wants that.

It'd be a great thing to have in a post-oil science fiction move though.
jr59
03-30-2011, 03:16 PM
Would you wave?

How would "on your left" work"

They don't look very aero!
Ahneida Ride
03-30-2011, 05:21 PM
Works till the turd up front wants to make a tandem with you as
the stoker.
rice rocket
03-30-2011, 05:34 PM
Do rowers not like to see where they're going? I understand facing backwards is more "authentic" to the rowing experience, but when given the option, you'd still face backwards?
DogpawSlim
03-31-2011, 01:32 AM
An answer to a question nobody asked.
ergott
03-31-2011, 06:46 AM
Do rowers not like to see where they're going? I understand facing backwards is more "authentic" to the rowing experience, but when given the option, you'd still face backwards?


That's a frikin excellent observation!
:beer:
keevon
03-31-2011, 07:31 AM
How is that more "green"? Think of all the steel and concrete required to create the monorail network.

Like someone else said: an answer to a question that nobody asked.
RPS
03-31-2011, 08:26 AM
Like trains or monorails versus buses – this system takes most route flexibility out of the equation.

People want their own point-to-point transportation, not someone else’s idea of where it should start and end. That’s the beauty of a bike or car.
old fat man
03-31-2011, 08:46 AM
what a great thing to see in a green pasture. a bunch of concrete posts and steel beams.

dumbest idea of the millennium? that guy should have his fortune confiscated to be spent on truly helpful causes.
Richard
03-31-2011, 09:44 AM
Very similar to a ride that my son and I did in Lego Land CA. From toy to transportation alternative. Anyone ever see the show where a house and all its contents were built of Legos?
andeww
03-31-2011, 01:08 PM
i havent been to lego land in forever, funny place
tuxbailey
03-31-2011, 01:50 PM
Probably good for an amusement park.
Clydesdale
03-31-2011, 01:55 PM
I had to check the date and make sure it wasn't tomorrow.
KeithS
03-31-2011, 06:53 PM
I went by it last summer, he has a prototype on his farm west of the twin cities. No one was on it, just looked like a monorail track. He's a creative type that's for sure. Somewhat eccentric.
Grant McLean
03-31-2011, 07:04 PM
Very cool, perhaps on college campuses and maybe some downtown areas? I like it!

http://factlets.info/SkyBike

A College campus would be perfect. I takes me 15 minutes to walk
from the library to a lecture hall, and it would take about 2 minutes
on one of those!

The biggest cost savings would potentially be in an environment where the land
was at a premium, and allocating space to ground transport is prohibitively
expensive, or unlikely do to congestion.
bobj
03-31-2011, 10:52 PM
If someone buys that thing, I have a perpetual motion machine they might be interested in.