Tuktuk & Vienna
A lovely working model of a tuktuk bike rickshaw as seen in the bedroom of a boy I know.
If you're ever in Vienna, pay a visit to the Embacher Collection. Loads of bikes to look at. They have a website, too.
The English version looks like it was translated by an online translation tool but it works. This is what they write about the Long John.
"The only two-wheeler load-carrying bike with a maximum load of around 140 kg (incl. rider). Nevertheless, the load can suspiciously be balanced out easily, something that passers-by find hard to believe. On start there are many onlookers and the other awestruck bike-lane users make space when they are being."
11 thinking out louds:
I know it's only vaguely related (ok, it's not at all). But I came across this post in a friends blog about how wearing helmets reduces pedestrian deaths, "
Bicycle Helmets & Pedestrian Casualties", and I immediately thought Zakaliciousness!
The Embacher collection is indeed worth seeing. However, the information on their website is not always correct.
For example the featured "Monark" Long John is actually a Danish SCO Long John from the eighties or very early nineties. Also, the load limit is 100kg on the cargo bay (excl. rider!) plus 30-50kg on the optional rear rack.
Found this: http://tinyurl.com/2200love
It's taken on Nørrebro, don't know by who or if it's been photoshopped, but... cool work, then.
20:58 – The way I read it, that article actually does not support the conclusion that helmets reduce pedestrian deaths. From the blog post:
"...Using the same "one-parameter logic" as many of the initial helmet effectiveness reviews, it is possible to "show" ... that helmet legislation has substantially reduced pedestrian fatalities in Victoria. But this is clearly impossible. Failure to recognise external factors such as other road safety and usage changes has devalued many Australian evaluations of helmet effectiveness.
Using somewhat more thorough analysis, Robinson concludes that helmet legislation had no obvious effect." (my emphasis)
Interesting article, though (and I'm still wearing my helmet!).
tinarama: precisely. It shows that drawing conclusions from such graphs is unhelpful. I wear a helmet because it protects me, not from the ground, but from beer cans, low hanging branches, the sun and police offices with a quota to fill.
Let the flames begin :)
tykke: It's real. You can see it on Nørrebrogade heading towards city. It's right by Nørrebro station...
Happy new year from the Stateside. Keep writing!
Here's some funny reading - how to reduce your carbon footprint for 2009.
Helmets are great protection from swooping Magpies and Wattle birds here in Melbourne during nesting season!
Today we can see a huge response of youth towards this cycle sport.
For cycle coaching --progressiv cycle coaching
it's not a sport for most. only for a few. for the rest of us it's just a way to get around.
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