Glide Through the Sky on a Pedal-Powered Monorail

If you’ve ever had dreams about riding your bike in the sky, a new human-powered monorail is about as close as you’ll ever come in real life – unless you want to brave the rickety-looking pedal-powered roller coaster in Japan. The ‘Shweeb’ has users enclosed in clear capsules, gliding along a monorail track on what are essentially recumbent bicycles, which can go up to 25mph.

From Inhabitat:

Although we don’t expect to see cities connected by pedal-powered monorail systems anytime soon, there are a number of applications where they could be useful. Think of guided tours through natural parks, scenic routes, adventure camps, and developments that require large pieces of land and a reasonable amount of population.

For now the system is in use on Schweeb’s grounds in New Zealand. If you are feeling adventurous, feel free to visit them at Ngongotha, New Zealand.

We can definitely imagine this kind of system in use in parks and other nature preserves, since they would minimize the impact that visiting humans would have on the ecosystem while still giving riders exercise and great views.

Link [Inhabitat]

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