Patent ID: 8689699
Filing Date: 2014-04-08
Classification: B61B,B62K

Abstract:
1. An elevated bicycle-based transportation system, comprising: a bicycle; a front suspension member, connected to a front portion of said bicycle and having on the upper end a rolling, sliding, or gliding member; a rear suspension member, connected to a rear portion of said bicycle and having on the upper end a rolling, sliding, or gliding member; an overhead track, which is a supporting member substantially horizontal in orientation, on which said rolling, sliding or gliding members of said front suspension member and rear suspension member rest; a front strut, one end of which is connected to said front suspension member, and a rear strut, one end of which is connected to said rear suspension member, such that, by connecting the other ends of each strut to appropriate structural members of said bicycle, motion of said suspension members in the forward/backward direction, which is the direction of said bicycle or the opposite direction, is prevented; said front strut and said rear strut can be adjusted so as to adjust the angles of said suspension members with respect to the vertical direction; wherein when said suspension members are not suspended from the overhead track, said bicycle can be used in contact with a substrate surface; said suspension members are of such lengths, relative to a height relative to a substrate of said overhead track, dimensions of said bicycle, and positions of connection to said bicycle of said front and rear suspension members, that tires of said bicycle are raised off the substrate, so that said bicycle can travel, suspended in air and bearing a human bicycle rider by means of said front and rear suspension members, along said overhead track; and, when said bicycle is used on the substrate, at least one among said front suspension member and said rear suspension member can be retracted, collapsed, folded, pivoted, detached, or otherwise modified by a simple operation, to assume a less prominent position which does not impede use of the bicycle on the substrate.