Could we please include credit for webcomics?
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…wonder how fast a 50-seater tandem bicycle could get going, assuming ideal conditions and riders.
At least 12
thats only 39 hamster balls, 0/10
Technically he only specified how many people. Some of those hamster balls are multi passenger
Speaking from experience?
It doesn’t say there are 50 hamster balls.
The lower half is obviously nonsense. The future belongs to the 50 people tandem
Alt text: I wonder how hard it would be to ride an electric scooter in a hamster ball.
I wonder how hard it would be to stop…
So uh, walking, buses, and bikes for the win?
The hamster balls also win for style points but that’s arguably walking with extra steps.
Fewer steps if you get going fast enough and just ride tumbling ass over tea kettle.
The inner diameter is less than the outer diameter which makes for a small overdrive gearing ratio, translating to fewer steps even under normal operation.
What if these 50 people are clowns and all they have is one Fiat Uno?
Why wouldn’t the wolves just eat everything?
Because they don’t like cabbages
“My cabbages!”
- Baahvatar, the Last Goatbender