If New Zealand hadn’t ripped up its tram tracks in the 1950s, I’m almost certain that some risk-taking Kiwi would have invented this first:
Czech artist Tomáš Moravec… cut down the dimensions of a standard, European wood pallet, or “Eur Pallet,” and fastened what appear to be small cart wheels to the bottom, creating a giant—and specialized—skateboard. The Pallet Skate fits snugly into the tram tracks running through Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, and with a few pushes, Moravec glides smoothly around the city.
Moravec’s invention is unconventional, extremely risky, able to be cobbled together in the average garage workshop, and almost certainly illegal. In other words, it’d probably go over well in NZ, the country that came up with bungee jumping, longboarding on motorways, and drift trikes.
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PRT!
excellent.
Wait, is this the pod technology that was hinted in that mysterious press release?
I’m guessing those pods are a Toa Greening special looking? He must be looking for something else to do after not gaining traction with his narrow cars?
No you know why they got rid of the trams.
Fantastic. I’m down Wynyard Quarter with one of those tomorrow!
That’d be a far more entertaining means of trundling around the Wynyard Quarter.
Wouldn’t call it risky, thats one of the safest ways of skating i’ve ever seen haha. Luckily its not New Zealand or the safety freaks would be all over it as per usual haha.
I like the way everybody just ignores him / the pallet – as if this is just a perfectly normal system of transport – just as we ignord skateboarders in the middle of the street in NZ.
You know it’s legal to ride a skateboard on the road in NZ right?