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Human-powered land vehicle

Vehicle propelled over ground by human power

Human-powered land vehicles are land vehicles propelled over ground by human power, The main ways to support the weight of a human-powered land vehicle and its contents above the ground are rolling contact; sliding contact; intermittent contact; no contact at all as with anything carried; or some combination of the above.{{cite book

Many human-powered land vehicles can also be gravity-powered land vehicles, and vice versa, although some of the latter are quite awkward to use as the former. For example: street luges, gravity racers, and snow boards.

Types of ground contact

There are four main ways to support the weight of a human-powered land vehicle and its contents: rolling contact as with wheels; sliding contact as with skates, skis, or runners; intermittent contact as with stilts; and no contact at all as with anything carried. Additionally, these four methods may be combined as in wheelbarrows.

Wheeled

The most common wheeled human-powered land vehicle is the bicycle in all its forms. Other notable examples include:

Balance bicycles and dandy horses
Handcars, and draisines
Hotchkiss Bicycle Railroad and shweeb
Inline skates, roller skates, and roller skis
Kick scooters, kickbikes, knee scooters, and square scooters
Rickshaws, prams, strollers, roller buggies and buggies/Shopping trolley (caddy)
Skateboards, longboards, Penny boards, snakeboards, caster boards, Freeline skates, Surfskate (or Carveboard)
Tricycles, quadracycles, and velomobiles
Trikkes
Unicycles
Wheelchairs and baby walkers
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Sliding

Skis, snowboard, snowskate
Sleds
Ice skates and clap skates
Mud horses and mud sledges

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Intermittent

Stilts
Powerbocking
Pogo stick

Types of propulsion

There are three main methods of using human power to propel a land vehicle: some kind of drivetrain that turns one or more drive wheels; pushing laterally against the ground, to the side relative to the forward motion of the vehicle, with a wheel, skate, or ski that simultaneously moves forward; by pushing against the ground directly with an appendage, such as a hand or a foot, opposite to the direction of travel, or by pushing against the air with a propeller.{{cite web | access-date = 2012-05-30}}

Drivetrain

Main article: Bicycle drivetrain systems

Lateral motion of one or more wheels, skis, or skates

Ice skating
Skate skiing
Inline skating and double push

Direct contact with the ground

Skateboarding
Kicksleding
Poling

References

Info: Wikipedia Source

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