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Thread: Water Bike in Sydney Harbour
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13th November 2021, 06:47 PM #1Novice
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Water Bike in Sydney Harbour
In 1998 I did a tour of Eastern Australia, Cairns, Alice Springs, Melbourne, Beechworth (to shake Geoff Lucas by the hand for producing his wonderful sawmill (which I had just bought) up the coast to Sydney via Canberra.
In Sydney Harbour I hired a water bike, which was a bicycle on a pair of pontoons, the main difference was that instead of a propeller it had a small tube which enclosed an Archimedes type screw to drive the machine.
Looking at the size of the tube,(maybe 3 or so inches in diameter and perhaps 6 or so inches long and made of plastic I think) I was not expecting much performance, probably slower than a pedalo I thought. But the thing took off almost like a road bike and before I knew it I was on the other side of the harbour.
The pedals took the drive via a chain to the rear axle where a vertical drive powered the screw. This shaft could be turned with the handlebars to steer the machine.
I desperately have been looking to buy one for our lake here in the UK, but I have not seen a mention of it anywhere on the web
Typical brilliant Aussie simple effective machine, just like the Lucas Mill!
Anyone seen anything similar?
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14th November 2021, 10:06 AM #2Member
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It may not be the same as the one you saw but this one seems to be available in the UK.
Chiliboats United Kingdom
Mark
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18th November 2021, 08:54 AM #3Novice
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Similar concept but has a propeller as opposed to the enclosed screw type jet which I was so impressed with
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