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One for the rail commuters

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  • Started 12 years ago by Greenroofer
  • Latest reply from lionfish

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  1. Greenroofer
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    Google/YouTube, noting that I regularly look at videos of trains* and bicycles (the former in the company of my young son, the latter alone), suggested this as a 'related link'. May be of interest for those who do multi-mode commutes by bike and train.
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    *I must also confess to a passing interest in these myself, which is one that I suspect I share with a surprising number of this forum's membership.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  2. crowriver
    Member

    Completely insane. You need a big, largely empty (but intact) rail network to take advantage of this. I suppose the former Soviet countries have this. Here they pulled up all the little used train and tram rails long ago.

    Neat wee two stroke engine on that bike...

    Posted 12 years ago #

  3. Smudge
    Member

    some unused badly laid tramlines about Edinburgh these days....

    Posted 12 years ago #

  4. crowriver
    Member

    Actually it would work in places where the trams/trains either don't run at all (eg. on a Sunday), or run only very infrequently.

    Some of the Highland lines could be used with this bike, as long as you checked the timetable very carefully!

    Posted 12 years ago #

  5. alibali
    Member

    Excellent! I wonder if they have "Dragons Den" in Russia. Who could refuse a chance to invest in something as revolutionary as the Segway? Oh, wait...

    Posted 12 years ago #

  6. Smudge
    Member

    "Neat wee two stroke engine on that bike..."

    Got one of these in the shed for when I have time/money/inclination/a vintage roadster to bolt it to...
    http://freespace.virgin.net/stones.ukp/trojan_minimotor.htm

    Posted 12 years ago #

  7. lionfish
    Member

    Smudge:

    1. A lot of people walk along that bit of track as the surrounding land is a bog! I think it's fine to walk along/beside, as it's annoying otherwise :)

    2. How did they not notice it coming? There's nothing else around!!

    I think there's 4-6 trains/day on that line? I remember realising the train would be going past and minimoth+I racing to the top of a ridge to watch it go past in the distance :)

    Posted 12 years ago #

  8. Smudge
    Member

    @Lionfish, did you mean @Crowriver? ;-)

    Posted 12 years ago #

  9. crowriver
    Member

    @lionfish: Smudge:

    Eh?

    Posted 12 years ago #

  10. lionfish
    Member

    @Smudge: oops - I did.

    @crowriver: oops :)

    Posted 12 years ago #

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