Amphibious cycle
An amphibious bicycle is a bicycle that can travel as amphibious vehicle both on land and on the water surface with pedal drive.
Amphibians Two Wheels
Developed in the 1880s Sicherheitsniederrad encouraged the development of amphibious bicycles. The bulk of the construction, corrosion and safety problems prevented despite strong media presence that the models were ever built and marketed in larger series.
The obvious and simple construction of the amphibious bicycle made sure that it was invented around the world for over 100 years in ever new in different ways and solutions. Cause the boost from one to eight ( the prototype of Li Weiguo ) pontoons. The most common drive options are the propeller, paddle, or paddle drive.
The first known functional and proven amphibious bicycle was developed in 1910 by Alfred Baumgartner and Hirt, employees Maschinenfabrik Christian man from Waldshut in the Black Forest. On August 10, 1913 Baumgartner demonstrated the suitability by a combined tour by land and water on the Rhine from Waldshut to Laufenburg ( Baden) with a distance of 20 km .. A patent application in all European countries followed. However, the model did not go to series.
E. Fabry presented in 1932 at a trade fair in Paris its amphibious bicycle Cyclomer. Series production is not known here.
2006 Saidullah 's Bicycle, the construction of an Indian tinkerer, made public by the BBC News and the Discovery Channel.
Amphibians tricycles
The late 1860s and first drafts patent applications written for three-wheeled velocipede ball that could be used to land and water. The French army took the late 1880s, attempts telephone cable with three-wheel ball - Velocipeden to relocate to land and water.
1890 developed the ship's engineer Georg Pinkert from Hamburg, the water - velocipede, a water -course tricycle with big hollow tires. On this model, the drive was carried out by projecting fins at the rear wheels. Pinkert attempted with his vehicle to cross the channel.
1895 made the Berlin engineer Max Wenkel on a leash and Ihme in Hannover experiments with his water tricycle. It was developed on behalf of a rubber factory in order to achieve water lying on plantations in South America more convenient.
Thore J. Olsen from Chicago presented in 1896 before a Water and Land Vehicle, which was carried by a ship's hull with a split bow to front intake in the water. The pedal- driven rear wheels worked by fins on the spokes as a paddle wheel. The hulls were utilized for the weight of three people.
Ernesto Octavio Moraga from Buenos Aires, Argentina presented in 1969 before his Cyclo Amphibious, for which he received a U.S. patent in 1971.
Pontonzurüstung for bicycles
A variant of the well-known water wheel developed in 1992 and went into series represents the SBK Engineering Shuttle Bike is, stocky the conventional mountain bikes with few handles a pontoon frame with Paddelradantrieb. The separable pedestal place in a backpack.
Amphibious bicycle models (selection)
- Wasservelociped, Georg Pinkert, Germany, 1890
- Country of Water Vehicle, Thore J. Olsen, United States, 1896
- Water and road bike, Baumgartner and Hirth, Germany, 1910
- Cyclomer, E. Fabry, France, 1932
- Moraga 's Cyclo Amphibious, Ernesto Octavio Moraga, Argentina, 1969
- Amphibious bicycle, Dwarka Prasad Chaurasiya, India, 1982
- SBK Engineering Shuttle Bike, Italy, 1992
- Saidullah 's Bicycle, Mohammed Saidullah, India, 2006
- Amphibious bicycle, Li Weiguo, China, 2007