First, some old business - Solid tires with a strip of rubber on the
outside.
The Germans are way ahead of me.
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MAIN TOPIC - BICYCLING ON THE MOON
They brought a go cart up there in the sixties. I think they missed an
opportunity. They could have brought up a specially made bicycle. They
already had the engine - an astronaut. They had the fuel - space food. (back
then eating food out of plastic pouches was only done by astronauts in
space.) All they needed was a properly built moon bicyle or trike.
What would it look like?
How fast would it go?
What special features might it have had?
Why didn't they do it?
Since there was no atomosphere and less gravity, I think it would have gone
faster. Wouldn't there be less friction with the ground in low gravity?
Maybe the bike could have been geared to go further with each stroke.
Jumps would have been awesome!
NASA might have invented the first mountain bike ten or fifteen years
earlier had they sent a bike to the moon.
What would an astronaut on the moon wear cycling on the moon? I don't
remember how hot or cold it was. I think temperatures varied greatly. This
would have determined what they would wear and of course they'd have to
bring air tanks which are heavy.
Astronauts could pedal their bikes 74 miles per hour on the moon.