Originally Posted by KingTermite
I rented one once....wasn't very impressed. It wasn't nearly as fun as it looked.
--- Ditto. They take a lot of energy for very slow performance. A good ride to give restless kids--wears them out but they don't get far.
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"The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man's metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well." Ivan Illich ('Energy and Equity')1974