Originally published at: This bike-powered backyard rollercoaster rules | Boing Boing
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> to beg you to peddle the ride
What? To sell it?
(Hint: the word is PEDAL!)
I’d @popkin but that doesn’t work, does it. Sigh.
@orenwolf - trivial, I know, but might you edit it before another few poor souls assume peddle is the same as pedal, having seen it in such an authoritative source? 
But it IS a wonderful thing. Individually made, I assume, but someone should start selling these in kit form.
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I’d like a power take-off for my bike.
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already fixed.
i don’t know if i’d sell the ride, but some tickets maybe.
i wonder what the backstory is there. super impressive
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Ran into almost the same thing at Sommerland Sjaelland in Denmark during the summer. It appears to be the exact same model.
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The track sections in the original video looked too good to be a person’s one-off. I am curious about the tire-bumper on the back of the cars. Are there more elaborate tracks with multiple cars where a bumper would be needed?
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The tire on the back is probably supposed to lend the appearance of a Jeep, or maybe be a spare for part of the cycle assembly. Could also be contributing weight for physics. Otherwise - just guessing - the whole thing looks like an Alibaba-style kit that can be bought online, possibly with modular cars (thus the plane car at the Denmark park).
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As impressive as some of the backyard rollercoasters are, I don’t think I’d want one for myself. Due to inherent limitations of physics rollercoasters are one type of ride that just doesn’t scale down very well. A small rollercoaster will always mean a short ride time, unlike, for example, a miniature steam train or merry-go-round. This one lasts maybe
8 seconds, so I think my kids and I would get bored of it pretty quickly. But I’m still glad that somebody is out there building these things, because the YouTube videos are always fun.
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The builder apparently builds rides as an engineer, so has the fabrication facilities most of us don’t.
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