How to get ashore with your bike

[westernman]

Ever wondered how to transport your bike from your boat at anchor in the dinghy?

Why not do it like this:-

Then you can deflate it and take it with you on your cycle trip - so no dinghy or outboard to get stolen.

 

[bikedaft]

That looks cool

How is he pumping the floats up? Wire or hydraulic drive to a compressor?

And how is he moving through the water - is there a propeller in there?

Cheers for posting

 

[ip485]

Wow, without wishing to be a misery, it seems an invention that would have few takers. The pack looks far to weighty, it would seem a phaff to set up, and take apart, and unsafe except on the most flat of waters. Still I am sure there is a small market and wish the invetors a lot of luck. For that reason .. .. .. I move the bikes around in the tender when needs must which was why I was intrigued to read the thread. Given you have a tender it still isnt the perfect solution but it works.

 

[[70521]]

It is a lot faster to just put them in the dingy and start the outboard.

 

[Daydream believer]

Pedaling round the town with that load on one's back all day would not be fun!!!. Not to mention getting on & off the bike on to the boat. Oh! & folding & unfolding the bike somewhere prior to use or after use, Where does the crew fit if the fold up bike does not have a cross bar?.........Naah!!!Somehow I do not think that I will bother

 

[johnalison]

It is a lot faster to just put them in the dingy and start the outboard.

Or a lot less effort to take the water taxi ashore and find a hire-bike.

 

[prv]

How is he pumping the floats up? Wire or hydraulic drive to a compressor?

And how is he moving through the water - is there a propeller in there?

It looks like a big speedo-cable (similar to the flexible drive for my Dremel) driving first a pump and then a propeller, from a roller on the back wheel.

I could see pootling around on a river on this as an activity in its own right - same sort of way people use stand-up paddleboards. Though I note all the under-way sequences were sped up in the video, so I suspect it's unreasonably slow in reality.

It's obviously a non-starter as a means of transport from a yacht.

Pete

 

[Champagne Murphy]

Gonna need a bigger tender I reckon.