[python] Re: Electrified!
- From: Dirk Steuwer <dirk@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: python@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:11:04 +0100
Moin RhG,
I'm thinking along the same lines.
Especially now, when riding in winter conditions, a third wheel would come in
handy. Some form of shell could streamline things, prevent you from rain and
would take one further argument against bicycle commuting from the list of
why nots.
Thanks to bikes being so modular, there are more and more electric drives
entering the market.
Also, we see more and more rental systems like call a bike in germany, or this
one in lyon/france http://www.velov.grandlyon.com/
I think i saw similar bikes in vienna this year.
Also, cities (i can speak for vienna and munich) seem to invest more into
decent bicycle lanes.
Munich and other german cities will introduce a green center like London has,
only to be entered by clean vehicles. Although i don't think the way it is
done is brilliant, it should create more space more cycling :-)
Grüße,
DirkS
On Monday 26 November 2007 10:52:34 Rhisiart Gwilym wrote:
> Siwmae bechgyn (Hiya boys) and any ladies who may stray into this
> list (Don't seem to be many yet),
>
> When not lurking on the Python list, or babbling to myself in on odd
> ancient language, I surf several other fields of particular interest
> to me. One of these is the just-emerging-above-the-surface giant
> ice-berg of Peak Oil.
>
> Energy Bulletin and The Oil Drum are two of my preferred sites. I've
> just picked up this from today's TOD additions:
> http://europe.theoildrum.com/node/3275#more.
>
> On yer mettle, lads! If us recumbent wizards can't get even better
> efficiency than those inventive guys with the 500 we should hang our
> heads in shame. Having said that though, you have to admire the huge
> increases in fuel efficiency that they've made possible just with a
> bit of 'off-the-shelf' technology and some ingenuity. It's worth
> reading right through the comments at the end of the item, too. The
> TOD crowd are intelligent, well-informed above the average, and
> inventive.
>
> But it strikes me that if Ugo and friends can get this kind of
> excellent result with the weight of a Fiat 500, think what the bent
> folk could get with a seriously alleweder Python velo!
>
> I know that there are electrically-assisted velos around already.
> Just thought that Pythononauts should be up there with the
> pathfinders.
>
> Jurgen's initiative has opened up a new field in biking, I think.
> It's a sort of rule of thumb that whatever inventive bikers are
> dreaming up now was already done somewhere about a century ago, and
> subsequently forgotten. But was there ever a Python before? I think
> this might be a genuinely new innovation.
>
> Some of you will have picked up my preoccupation with
> weather-proofing any bike I use. (It rains a lot here, and I don't
> want to be forced to bike just in the Summer) Also, being an old git,
> I want to be able to wind myself up long climbs very gently -- ie,
> slowly. So I muse constantly around the idea of a trike, or a bike
> with outrigger wheel, or even retractable small stabiliser wheels for
> standing at lights or creeping uphill. All of this points towards a
> Python velo.
>
> And though not particularly interested in anything more than pure
> muscle-drive myself, I know lots of people who would start to look
> seriously at an ultra-light electrivelo, with or without pedal
> assist, as the oncoming energy crisis ramps up so hard that even we
> of the global Pampered Twenty Percent can no longer ignore/deny it.
>
> Just thought you-all might like to ruminate on this.
>
> Cofion, RhG
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