Talk:Human-powered transport

message: The SUMPA claim is disputed.  See ,  --Thisisbossi 03:51, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  SUMPA claim 

message: If I remember correctly, the bicycle is the most effcient transfer of human energy, with a loss of something like 2 or 3 percent. I think this info should be added but I'm not sure of its authenticity of the percentage of energy loss and I couldn't find any reaserch on the internet. Please help. --AidanPryde 11:30, 12 Jun 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Efficiency 

message: The Dutch version states that Fred Rompelberg holds this world record from 1995 (268.831 kph) and other internet sources seem to back this up.
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Rompelberg 
EdX20 19:20, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Land Speed Record behind a pace vehicle

message: there doesn't seem to be a wikipedia page for the land speed record for human powered vehicles. This page should at least mention it / them (eg records for paced / unpaced, recumbent, wedgie etc) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Stib (talk • contribs) 02:25, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  hpv speed record information needed 

message: The information about the speed records should I believe be placed in their own section (the article is about human-powered transport, not physical achievements).
Also, can someone please remove that silly picture about a sherpa carrying wood in the Andes (or atleast place it in the "sheer muscle power"-section). It's not representative at all to place it at the top to guide the "human-powered transport"-article (which is about transport.
Thanks.
87.64.192.70 (talk) 08:37, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Speed records in own section 

message: The word transport is derived from the Latin trans ("across") and portare ("to carry"). The photo of a human carrying cargo while walking across a distance is in the introduction because so many editors have disrespected walking as a form of transport. Quoting from the introduction: "...human-powered transport has existed since time immemorial in the form of walking..."  --Wiley (talk) 13:12, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Walking across a distance while carrying 

message: shall this be added as a prototype or i it still to early ? 
http://www.humancar.com/index_home.html
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=369463415941480101&q=humancar
what do you think?
-Stefanbcn (talk) 23:48, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  human car

message: A sprint after 5 hours of cycling and a non-vehicular sprint are both labeled as 1700. MadCow257 (talk) 20:23, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The reference for the walking and running power is no longer functioning. Also, I strongly suspect that those numbers are calculated based on rate of calories burned rather than power output. The human body is not 100% efficient so the two numbers are not the same thing.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ejensen6 (talk • contribs) 19:38, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I have fixed the broken link by finding the archived page on Archive.org, although I am not sure if it supports the point or not. - Ahunt (talk) 13:40, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Questionable Watts 

message: The list of HPVs is currently alphabetical.  However there are related types of vehicle there (wheeled, on water, on snow/ice).  I suggest we group related types. 58.152.91.163 (talk) 11:24, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Grouping

message: I once saw a 4-legged pedal powered vehicle in a commercial. Not sure of name/designer. Seemed old, and was made similar to a stepping machine (ie the person himself presses 2 boars below the feet in an alternating motion, due to the alternating of the person, the legs are also powered in an alternating fashion, propelling the vehicle. Quite simple, yet worth noting nonetheless
91.182.249.10 (talk) 12:24, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: If you have a reference then it can be added. - Ahunt (talk) 14:36, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Pedal powered 4-legged vehicle

message: I suggest merging Self-propelled travel into this article. That article appears to be a fork of this and overlaps substantially the same subject. I don't see any real evidence that there's a meaningful distinction between the phrases either. Notably, there's very little in that article itself. At best it appears to just be a neogolism describing all self-propelled recreation. Shadowjams (talk) 04:25, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: That makes sense to me! - Ahunt (talk) 10:41, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: This discussion seems to have reached a consensus, do you want to carry out the merge then? - Ahunt (talk) 12:17, 7 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Should sport be included here? Is it sufficiently related to transport.--Darrelljon (talk) 11:24, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: This article is about transport, not sport. We have various article such as cycle sport. - Ahunt (talk) 12:23, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sport or transport?