Artkansas
11-10-10, 02:50 PM
http://www.mobilemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/scubste5.jpeg
5 Mph. It can go 20ft down and it's a recumbent. ;)
5 Mph. It can go 20ft down and it's a recumbent. ;)
Alt Bike Culture - Yellow Submarine
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StephenH
11-12-10, 09:39 PM
Is the bubble filled with air or water? If air, don't you need a 1,000 lbs of ballast? If water, wouldn't it interfere with pedaling?
Artkansas
11-14-10, 09:43 AM
Well, looking at the bubbles coming out of the cyclists regulator and his goggles and wetsuit, I think the sub is filled with water. And as far as extra effort, probably no worse than swimming. I imagine the wet suit might be the greater drag.
RaiderInBlue47
11-14-10, 10:42 PM
That looks really inefficient. Inefficient but awesome.
joshura
11-20-10, 02:22 PM
The coolest thing i have seen in a loooong time
Congratulations!
Congratulations!
Doug5150
11-20-10, 05:56 PM
It looks like something a child would invent. And I don't mean that as a compliment.
Trading off the ability to go farther, but spending more air doing so, is really not much of any "advantage" in diving.
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Besides, for scuba diving they have the electric motor-propeller things that just pull you around anyway.
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Trading off the ability to go farther, but spending more air doing so, is really not much of any "advantage" in diving.
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Besides, for scuba diving they have the electric motor-propeller things that just pull you around anyway.
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StephenH
11-20-10, 06:58 PM
On the human-propelled-vehicle races, they've developed similar shaped bicycles that are a bunch more aerodynamic than a normal bicycle, and it wouldn't surprise me if that wasn't also possible with underwater stuff- so I can see a possiblity that you could go farther and faster with a hulled pedal-sub than you could by swimming. But on that one, it looks like such an enormous hull for one person.
Re-reading the title, in the local club, I used to hear them speak of "the yellow submarine". I've seen a guy on local charity rides with a home-built yellow fairing and wondered if that's what they meant. But no, it just turned out the "yellow submarine" was a particular tandem bike that they like to draft behind.
Re-reading the title, in the local club, I used to hear them speak of "the yellow submarine". I've seen a guy on local charity rides with a home-built yellow fairing and wondered if that's what they meant. But no, it just turned out the "yellow submarine" was a particular tandem bike that they like to draft behind.