Retractable Sail Could Give Bikes A Boost Of Wind Power
Retractable sail could give bikes a boost of wind power
Although there's nothing like cycling with a good tailwind, your bike and your body are only capable of catching a limited amount of that wind. The CycleWing was designed to help, acting as – you guessed it – a sail for your bike.Ben Coxworth (New Atlas)
Alexandra Lanes
Unknown parent • •penwing (they/them)
Unknown parent • • •thankfully the Kickstarter* was a failure (14 backers still raise £2k+ of a £58k goal). Sadly (thankfully?) we do not get to see any (hilarious) videos of unexpected gybeing
* I looked to see whether either of them might have had *any* experience of sailing... they have a diagram at east...
Alexandra Lanes
in reply to penwing (they/them) • •xapr
in reply to walnutwalrus • • •Cool idea, but only a small minority of people will adopt something like this given that electric bikes seem to be all the rage right now. I can maybe imagine touring cyclists getting into this, but that's it. This would make cycling even more complicated*(!) for most people.
*Probably three quarters of the people I see riding bikes don't even know how to set the proper height for their saddles. They also don't know which roads are appropriate to ride their bikes on, or to follow the direction of traffic, or to not ride on sidewalks. Oh, and no lights at night either. It's no wonder that the US has a high rate of cycling fatalities.