Anyone made or thought up how to make an uplift.
Lets for instance say you have access to a nice bit of quite steep land...
I was thinking something along the lines of the rope system I've seen at milton keynes snowdome...
Ideas?
there are ski clubs in the lakes that operate portable ski-tows. couple of generators, rope and big pullys. might work.
might be easier just to push....
Easy.
1 Drive me and the kids up to the Buzzard Nests carpark at GT
2 All ride down
3 Leave kids in The Hub to feast
4 I climb back up the hill to the car
5 Drive down to The Hub
6 Start at 1...
Car shuttling - 3-5 riders who can all drive and racking for #riders - 1 bikes
Drive to the top and leave # - 1 riders and bikes to ride down
Regroup at the bottom and drive back to the top
Repeat with a different driver and swapping bikes
Ideally have several different top to bottom options
A fun day's descending!
I saw an advert for one of those bikes that can ride uphill the other day - maybe worth a thought 😉
DrP
Note the 'winky'!!
Its get premission to do it thats the problem.
When we do it with mates the best way if you have a few vans / cars capable of taking people + bikes is:
Drive to the top in van 1. All ride down.
Drive to the top in van 2. All ride down.
Etc until you've only got 1 car left. Then drive all the drivers to the top and they take the vans back down.
Start again.
Of course, it's easier when we have customers who want to do uplift because then I just pay a driver 🙂
That method works really well on 'mates' uplift days with the locals. We normally get 3 runs before going back with the drivers, which given it's normally 500m-1000m descending, means that it's lunchtime. Then do 3-6 runs in the afternoon and it's a full on day. With smaller hills it might not work quite so well but I think that it would.
Hire a box van for the day and share driving duties is a very flexible route to go, although you can have insurance issues. Another way is hire a van for the day, everyone pitch in costs plus a tenner then one or two of you volunteer driving duties for that day. Next time out someone else does it.
or find a sympathetic SO 😉
but if you really want to put the effort into fixed infrastructure and the run is worth it then sure, why not
Trebuchet?
Buy a beaten up pickup/landy etc and get a meaty bike rack for the back. Take it in turns driving up. Much cheaper to run than a tow system. Assuming you own the land of course?
Parents land. No easy way to use a van as no fire road / track - suzuki jimmy can do it in the dry. Normally use a quad bike to get around.
Plus don't have mates in the area 🙁
Just thinking aloud really as it has potential and my father likes 'projects'
[url= http://www.skiliftportabletow.com/ ]http://www.skiliftportabletow.com/[/url]
That link is exactly the sort of thing I was thinking. Although will try to make it ourselves.
Trying to work out how you could attach it to the bike safely and how to get it to run on demand rather than continously - especially if it's petrol, cant have it running all the time.
No electricity on the land so that's out too.
Can't you use that rotary thing on the back of tractors to power an uplift? I think I've seen something like that somewhere. I'm guessing you might have a tractors but if not then it's a useless suggestion!
I saw an advert for one of those bikes that can ride uphill the other day - maybe worth a thought
Yeah they look quite good.
Got a stream?
a water powered tow thingy?
water fills bucket/tank at the top, becomes heavier than rider, and UP you go!
weeee!
empty bucket when it gets to the bottom, and the thing is light enough to be pulled down by the next rider
sustainable uplift.
if not, tow strings on the tow ball of an old mini 4x4 (suzuk (jimny)
if its your land, and you can keep it there, doesnt even have to be taxed 🙂
Got a stream?
a water powered tow thingy?
water fills bucket/tank at the top, becomes heavier than rider, and UP you go!
weeee!
empty bucket when it gets to the bottom, and the thing is light enough to be pulled down by the next ridersustainable uplift.
I rode up the Les Arcs funicular with a slightly mad guy who wanted to do this to power the funi. Claimed he'd done full plans and submitted them to the authorities. Nice guy, but definitely slightly bonkers.
look on ebay for a unimog pick up or one of those 6x6 army things ideal?
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarborough_funiculars ]Water powered lift been done before[/url]