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Propeller Driven Bicycle (Recumbent Trike) - Human Powered

submitted by Issykitty

1 decade 6 years 3 months ago

Following was taken from the vid description...

"A soothingly quiet trike driven by a 7-ft., pedal-powered propeller. I spend a month a year working on a commercial fishing boat with a loud diesel engine, and the greatest sound in the world is to hear it turn off. Recumbent trike built from aircraft-supply cro-moly tubing and salvaged bike parts. Prop hot-wire-cut pink foam, coated it with fiberglass — and then added LED lights so the blades display colored patterns as they turn."

11 Comments

He mentions people thinking it's a huge liability... YEAH IT IS... just put a cage around the blades for god's sake.

Someone not watching and THWACK... sorry, your arm is missing sir.

Still, upvote for building something fun, if deadly

Agreed, a small cage would do the trick.

Interesting because I'm looking to buy a recumbent bike.

dystopianfuturetoday

They should put that in GTA4, and use katanas for blades.

I think it is all about the look, though I probably would run out of the way if I saw one coming.

"A soothingly quiet trike"

Huh?!!! Quiet? How many bicycles and tricycles are loud?

"This is a private video?"

*dead =( Sorry, just helping to clean up http://www.videosift.com/playlists/eric3579/dead (this is a recorded message!)

This published video has been declared non-functional; embed code must be fixed within 2 days or it will be sent to the dead pool - declared dead by mintbbb.

Awarding oritteropo with one Power Point for fixing this video's dead embed code.

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The duration of this video has been updated from unknown to 1:42 - length declared by oritteropo.

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