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Stop, go, and turn are controlled by shifting body weight. So your pack, being inert, will either go nowhere fast or head off into the sunset in a straight line without you. This after spending about 1.5K for that gizmo that's under all your stuff.But could’t that be a bag carrier? Load it up like a modern mule?
I have recently been entertained by a number of people showing of their skills (youtube) on electric gyro stablised unicycles. Fast, dangerous, exciting.... But could’t that be a bag carrier? Load it up like a modern mule? How long could to go at a regular walking pace? Blimey, here comes the future. Has anyone tied this?
'Like all luggage, it's constantly getting lost and having to track its owner down. It has only one way of overcoming obstacles, and that is by simply ignoring them and smashing a hole through them..'As is so often the case the late lamented Terry Pratchett was ahead of us.
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Hi @Deavain,I have recently been entertained by a number of people showing of their skills (youtube) on electric gyro stablised unicycles. Fast, dangerous, exciting.
This my first post here so try a wikipedia search for electric unicycle.
Neat hu! And maybe if I was 20 years younger.
But could’t that be a bag carrier? Load it up like a modern mule? How long could to go at a regular walking pace?
Blimey, here comes the future.
Has anyone tied this?
I recommend one of these:
Little did I realise when I woke up this morning that I would experience a paradigm shift in imagining how we might walk the camino....
but found this fella on youtube
Of course, we'd need a whole network of charging points and a complete reconfiguration of albergue dormitories, and it would be an awful shame if it wasn't smart enough to dodge out of the way of cyclists...
Wonder how it would cope with the descent from Alto de Perdon?
Or a new business could be started in competition with the horses for rent heading up to O Cebreiro. I wonder what 10 Big Dogs would cost to invest in...anyone wanna "bite" on that?Depends which model. A group could chip in to purchase a Big Dog.
This thing is terrifying!Unicycles? I recommend one of these:
A very rainy day on the road in Fatima today left me time to generate the following conclusion: A techno unicycle and Spot - two far superior options for carrying luggage than a penny farthing.Several of us here on the Forum use hiking trailers - I also have a Spot (created by a wonderful friend who happens to be a fellow Forum member) and he’s much more handsome than Robotic Spot! Here he is on the CF in 2019:
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He packs down into a medium-sized suitcase which makes international travel from Australia really easy. At my starting point I assemble him, get all my camino gear into my backpack and then post the suitcase with my non-camino gear to Santiago.
He holds 4 litres of water with no trouble (also the occasional bottle of Rioja!) and I’ve often taken bags of items for pilgrims I’ve walked with to help lighten the weight of their packs.
Once I finish my camino I collect said suitcase, Spot goes back in the suitcase after a lovely shower and off I go on the rest of my travels - job done!
I couldn’t contemplate a camino without him - he and his creator have given me back my Camino walking life after a bike injury to my shoulder in 2015 made wearing a backpack too painful due to my collarbone being pinned and plated. I am so very grateful to them both.
Cheers from Oz -
Jenny
I actually find that quite scary!Depends which model. A group could chip in to purchase a BigDog. The bit on the ice makes you want to do something - even though it is a machine.
This may make you like them more. Or maybe not.I actually find that quite scary!
Wouldn’t it be simpler-easier just to carry less stuff?I have recently been entertained by a number of people showing of their skills (youtube) on electric gyro stablised unicycles. Fast, dangerous, exciting.
This my first post here so try a wikipedia search for electric unicycle.
Neat hu! And maybe if I was 20 years younger.
But could’t that be a bag carrier? Load it up like a modern mule? How long could to go at a regular walking pace?
Blimey, here comes the future.
Has anyone tied this?
Nothing wrong with the idea as such -- though for the purposes of obtaining a Compostela, assistance from mechanised devices like this one is allowed only to those pilgrims with an officially recognised handicap.But could’t that be a bag carrier? Load it up like a modern mule? How long could to go at a regular walking pace?
Blimey, here comes the future.
Has anyone tied this?
Depends which model. A group could chip in to purchase a BigDog. The bit on the ice makes you want to do something - even though it is a machine.
What about assistance from Correos or Jacotrans carrying bags to the next albergue or hotel? Nobody at the Pilgrim Office asks if you carried all your gear for the last 100 km.Nothing wrong with the idea as such -- though for the purposes of obtaining a Compostela, assistance from mechanised devices like this one is allowed only to those pilgrims with an officially recognised handicap.
The rule is specifically about motorised assistance while walking.What about assistance from Correos or Jacotrans carrying bags to the next albergue or hotel? Nobody at the Pilgrim Office asks if you carried all your gear for the last 100 km.
Party pooper.It may not be fast, dangerous or as exciting, but wouldn't it be simpler and cheaper just to bring less stuff with you?
Actually that thing looks like a spider who's lost 4 legs. It gives me the creeps. I'll carry my stuff myself, thanks!At about +2.30 it looks as if someone has had that machine in a menage, schooling it in dressage ….
Boy, it'd be a real bummer to fall on the guitarInteresting though, if I doThe Meseta again I might like to learn how to ride one.
Also I travel with a guitar,
Party pooper.
OMG the NOISE...! No thank you!Depends which model. A group could chip in to purchase a BigDog. The bit on the ice makes you want to do something - even though it is a machine.
But thank you for the chuckle, @chinacat. Yeah, in the snow, that collected trot is close to a passage. Mechanical spider dressage, anyone?
The military thought so too. Word is that BigDog is currently working on a farm upstate.OMG the NOISE...! No thank you!
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