Look at this cutie I spotted in Ipswich this morning!

[Andrew_Culture]

View: https://youtu.be/ve7LS5BbUI4


He wazzed past me and I had trouble catching up! I was expecting some young whipper snapper in the thing for it to be going so fast, but when I caught up there was a fella in there who was older than me!

 

[glasgowcyclist]

From the back it looks like a traffic cone being pulled along on a wire.

 

[Cheddar George]

Very cool.

Off topic - did you get a mention on Radio 6 yesterday ?

 

[Milkfloat]

Having never been in one - how does one indicate? Plus - do they get involved in more filtering incidents than uprights?

 

[RoubaixCube]

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[LCpl Boiled Egg]

I saw a white one of those going through Hunstanton on Sunday. It left the cars for dust filtering through the traffic.

 

[MontyVeda]

Very cool.

Off topic - did you get a mention on Radio 6 yesterday ?

another one?

(I asked the same thing a few months back)

 

[fixedfixer]

That looks wicked. However I don't have the bottle to ride one in traffic. Credit due to keeping up with him.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Would be better to get the idiot drivers off the roads rather than the velomobilist (if that's how they're known).
I think most folk would definitely see him and with a WTF?! expression on their faces.

 

[FishFright]

[QUOTE 4904224, member: 9609"]it blends in well at the bus stops and above the double yellows
can't imagine that been even remotely safe with all the idiots driving cars and trucks, most folk will never see him. Looks fun but not for the road.[/QUOTE]

I reckon its many times more visible then a conventional bike.

 

[ianrauk]

I reckon its many times more visible then a conventional bike.

....and some.
They are much bigger then it looks in the picture. Car drivers cant help but see them.

It's also what I found when I was riding a recumbent, car drivers seemed to take a wider pass then with a normal bike.

 

[Smokin Joe]

[QUOTE 4904224, member: 9609"]it blends in well at the bus stops and above the double yellows
can't imagine that been even remotely safe with all the idiots driving cars and trucks, some folk will never see him. Looks fun but not for the road.

[/QUOTE]
How the bleedin' hell would you not see that?

 

[Milkfloat]

I understand in normal traffic there will be the WTF visibility but I do wonder when filtering when hidden behind and alongside other vehicles.

 

[Drago]

Blimey, you weren't hanging about either. Might he have bought it off the mysterious unnamed supplier to Italian Amateur Racers?

 

[Smokin Joe]

[QUOTE 4904283, member: 9609"]i


I would hope I would see it as I try to be as observant as possible, but not everyone drivers with my attention. Being so low down it won't be where some are looking, it will also get lost behind other vehicles. I'm sure that will get lost in the blind spot of large 4x4s let alone lorries.[/QUOTE]
The only way you could miss that is by looking up at the sky and not at the road ahead.