DIY Floating Water Bike

By Queuebot in Auto & Transportation on Aug 13, 2009 at 2:05 am

Humans may not be able to walk on water, but an invention by Li Weiguo let us bike on water! Behold the amphibious bicycle, made by water containers jerry-rigged into pontoons:

Li Weiguo’s daughter Li Jin rides the human-powered amphibious bicycle on the water in Wuhan of Hubei Province, China on May 30, 2009. The amphibious bicycle made by Li Weiguo is equipped with eight water buckets as pontoons and adjustable vane wheels as driving power. This kind of bike can walk on land and on water.

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Tags: bicycle, bike, diy, floating, Li Weiguo, water

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Alex
Aug 13th, 2009 at 2:05 am
Sad to see Inhabitat “borrow” every single picture from the website …
Sue Dunham
Aug 13th, 2009 at 8:39 am
If that thing moves through water on it’s own power I’d be very surprised. Every pic shows the rider with feet horizontally level. To pedal through a revolution her feet will be in the water pushing against the forward momentum.
Gauldar
Aug 13th, 2009 at 9:50 am
“This kind of bike can walk on land and on water.”

This woman is a genius! Nobody has every successfully made a bike walk before!
Vonskippy
Aug 13th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Doesn’t “invent/invention” imply being the first?

But that seems to be an “invention” of the submitter – no where in the actual article do they claim to have invented a bike that works on both land and water (which of course has been done many many many times before).
ted
Aug 13th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
Bikes don’t walk.
Foreigner1
Aug 14th, 2009 at 6:43 am
Yep… Non-news…. Been done before. Many times. And better.
Baba
Aug 14th, 2009 at 9:21 pm
That’s “jury-riggged” – unless you’r playing on the pontoons similarity to jerry cans.

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