Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility - PUMA

Segway and GM's foray into togetherness begets (sob!) the PUMA

The Imagination of GM

Oh They must be KIDDING!

 

The best General Motors and it's staff of engineers can do for the Urban Centers of America.You think maybe they're trying to tell us something? If I were GM I don't think I'd announce this to Loudly? 

Drunk drivers in cars are bad enough. Could you imagine having a few and trying driving home in this?

 

 The F lip Side!

 

From The imagination of our world wide 

Cycling Community!

Human Powered Vehicles...

GM might want to hire a couple of these guys to help clean up the mess!

Varna HPV

Top Speed 82mph

Go online and check the records it for yourself?

Quest MVVM

 

Just to compare

PUMA

 

Go One Velomobile

 

Glyde Velomobile

from Greenspeed in Australia

  

AeroRider

 

 All from Europe

 

Aero-Tweens Breaking Recumbent Land Speed Records !

Aero-Tweens
Recumbent Family Cycling


This is an amazing account of the annual (click here>> Human Powered Speed Championships at Battle Mountain.
Tanya Markhum is just amazing and quite modest about her incredible ride.

In 1979, Fast Freddy Markham her dad became the first person to exceed 50 mph on an unassisted bicycle. He was also the first over 60 mph. In 1986 Fast Freddy won the DuPont prize for speed exceeding 
65 mph.
That bicycle, The Gold Rush, is now on permanent display in the Smithsonian Institute.Since Streamlined bikes have gone over  
80mph!



This is part one of three.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIko6Qo6skE&feature=player_embedded#



Once you get to youtube you can find pt 2&3

Making Things that Go Recumbent in New York City !!!

We have a playdate over ,,so I've been ridin the web and finding some pretty amazing and fun stuff.....

A couple of our  friends Chris Spollen and John Tetz put on a exhibition at the Staten Island Museum in new York City called Making Things Go.....(link)

This Streamliner is completely home made........and very Fast!! 
Ive ridden with John many times and in spite of our age difference I still can't catch him!!!