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Floating Bikes: New Detroit River Crossing?

By Justin Langlois on June 15th, 2009, 6:56 am 1 Comments

floating bike

Make your bike floatable through this DIY solution, courtesy of Li Wieguo from Wuhan of Hubei Province, China. The bike is modified to be equipped with eight water buckets acting as pontoons and an adjustable vane wheels as driving power.

Who needs the Skylink?

[via Inhabitat]

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  1. The Hub of Detroit | Crossing the Detroit/Windsor border, and the US Social Forum 2010 says:
    February 5, 2010 at 7:14 am

    [...] the border by bicycle through Detroit is something we’ve noticed a few approaches to, and is something people ask us about all the time. Currently, there is no regularly scheduled [...]

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