Railriding as an alternate form of transpo.

[UfoTofU]

Found this link this morning :

http://railriders.net/index1.html

[SVOboy]

Wow, that's pretty nuts. I'd be scared of trains!

[TomO]

Call me lazy, I just copied my post from the "other place", lol.

It looks like it would be fun. Sucks that they say they aren't supposed to go over 10MPH though. Think of the low friction you'd have on the straights!

On the other hand...this wouldn't work out here in MN very well. There aren't really any abandoned or rarely used tracks. BNSF and Soo Line use up all they can. Plus I find it hard to get permission from BNSF to use their track. My father and mother both work for BNSF and I have talked with many people that work on the rails.... I bet they'd crap their pants if they saw something like that on the rails, lol.

This area of MN has some decent bike trails though, so I guess that would be the MN verision of the rail riders.

[SVOboy]

You can't go faster than 10mph? Screw that,

[UfoTofU]

I thought the 10MPH speed limit was junk too.

But who would be watching right?

[metroschultz]

?Insane? maybe. ?Fun? probly.
There is abandoned track here in Va, Beach that goes into Norfolk. I've been trying to get people interested into making it a bike trail from the beach.(it ends 2 blocks from the ocean) To downtown Norf.
Now they (the gubmint) say they're gonna use it for light rail to be completed sometime after the end of civilization.
Go Figure.
S.

[SVOboy]

Iono, is the safety of the design speed limited? I'd want to go like 60 or 70...

[Christopher Jordan]

Looks like great fun, but in Santa Cruz CA. county- just last night on the news was a segment about walking or biking along a rail line was tresspassing so is being deemed illegal. Too many cooks spoiled the broth- 38+ million cooks.

Human power too may become a dream someday; maybe then we will be saying "remember those good ol' 10 mile per hour days?"

countersTrike

[bennelson]

It sounds like the 10 MPH is a club safety rule. I can see no reason why you couldn't easily go 50 in a cart like that.


They mention riding only on abandoned or private track. I think the 10 MPH might be so that if there is damaged or poorly maintained track, nobody gets hurt.

I didn't see any suspension on that "railrider" either, so you might not want to do too fast because of that either.