Pedal powered school busses

[NachtRitter]

Originally Posted by Frank Lee

IIRC the ones I rode on had 72 passenger capacity. 72 x 200 = lbs., so... they can get heavily loaded.

That's some dang heavy kids!! Even if you count the weight of the backpacks!!

[Frank Lee]

Have you seen how many fat little porkers there are these days?

How much weight should we use for each passenger? REMEMBER, sometimes school busses are filled with teenaged football players...

[NachtRitter]

Ah... I misunderstood... thought you were addressing C3H8's comment that most busses run around essentially unloaded even with the kids in them... I'd have to agree with that observation... around here I'd guess about 30 (of the ~72 seats) are filled with about 120lb (estimated avg) worth of kid. I thought you were saying that the ones you rode on had 72 seats filled with kids that had an avg weight of 200lbs. That's why I said !

But you're right... the busses ought to be designed as if each seat holds a large young adult (or regular adult) plus stuff. So 200lbs or more makes sense for a design goal.

[Piwoslaw]

The school busses I rode had the capacity limits (depending on age/size) writen on the front wall, something like (not the exact wording) "40 teens/60 lil buggers".

[shockware]

Wow, I thought I saw the worst here in the Philippines where they overloaded tricycles with kids. Now this is worst and very dangerous