Get ready to hit the road with these top ideas to unleash your pedal power. Discover new routes, gear recommendations, and tips to enhance your cycling experience.
If we boost the research on pedal powered technology - trying to make up for seven decades of lost opportunities - and steer it in the right direction, pedals and cranks could make an important contribution to running a post-carbon society that maintains many of the comforts of a modern life. The possibilities of pedal power largely exceed the use of the bicycle.
This provides a second gear ratio when pedalling backwards for climbing steep inclines.A single chain (represented by the black line) wraps around pink chain...
Reusing a Defunct Top-Loading Washing Machine by Converting It to Pedal Power - Step-by-step: We've been using pedal power for over 15 years ever since our front loading washing machine failed electronically. The first conversion we did was quite simple and when this machine finally sprung a leak in the drum, which was irreparable, we had …
One way of providing electricity to parts of the world that still have no access is to give them the means to generate it themselves. That's the approach being taken by Billions in Change. Its Free Electric bike lets users produce electricity by pedalling.
[Note October 2009: the pedal mill has been substantially updated since 2007, including tandem bike power. See posts from Sept-Oct 2009 for details on the upgrades, eg. ] The pedal grinder is fina…