A Human Powered Bus seen in Eindhoven, the Netherlands...

The "bus" takes 32 pedallers, a driver and a guide. It is constructed on a truck chassis, weighs 2500 kg and uses 80 meters of bike chain...

The contraption has been used to bring technology students from Eindhoven University of Technology to a brewery and back...

Data:

• Chassis: DAF 95 truck chassis.
  
• Measures: 11,30m * 2,5m.
  
• Means of propelling: 32 pedal devices, 80 meters of chain, > 100 chainwheels.
  
• Expected torque: 2000 Nm towards the brewery in Lieshout, 800 Nm at the return trip.
  
• Travelling speed: 20 km/h.
  
• Gearbox: Scania, 10 forward, 2 reverse.
  
• Empty weight: 2,5 metric tons.

Site (in Dutch) of the builders and operators of the human powered bus, student organization W.S.V. Simon Stevin.

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