mk 09-03-06 - Mark Linde suggested that we could make ous the San Francisco Busycle by building it out as a Cable Car!

mk 7-30-06 - Scott Campbell and I were talking, and he agreed that we should convene some of the better and/or more commited Buscycle minds for a meeting to discuss how we can create a Buscycle of our own. When Scott is not riding Boston to SF for us, he is busy making award winning human powered kinetic sculpture vehicles. He sez he can be at such a coming together if we indeed do choose to meet!!

Who can meet? When?

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TK 7/31/06 - Those are some great looking vehicles. In brainstorming we could explore whether to start from scratch like those vehicles below or to convert a car frame to human power (like the buscycle is a converted van). The two approches result in very different messages. The start from scratch machines show what can be made from the road up for transporting groups. The converted car approach teaches us about the huge request we make of fossil fuel in our driving habits. I like the conerted car approach for impactical whimsy.

After seeing the low efficiency buscycle (cranks chain to jack-hub chain to long shaft to big chain to engine shaft to 3 speed car transmission to crank shaft to u joint to differential to 2 rear wheel axels. That is a lot of transition steps and losses along the way.

I wonder if a 4 to 8 rider converted car or suv with riders pedaling cranks to chain to rear axel (rear axel split to allow turning corners w/o differential) would be easy.

RW 7/31/06 - How about we do it on the wiki? I will start right here,and every add comments ABOVE me, separated with a

See other projects:

Fietscafe:

Weddingbike

FunStepper:

Zem4

See it move here, including a rider changing his gears as it gets up the hill.

It weighs 170 lbs and cost $8.5K

Here is the four-seater RhodesCar.