Unusual modes of transport you have used.

[Elpenor]

The ones at Classic Wings in Duxford are £2.8k, I used to volunteer for them, that's when I sat in the Spitfire but no freebies were forthcoming. I did get a couple of rides in the Rapide though.

I saw one over Beachy Head last month when I was there. Just looked up the cost of the Beachy Head experience and that’s £4700!!

 

[spitfire]

I'd be interested to hear DownwardDog 's list... Or Lancman

 

[planetgeli]

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VIP version.

Pah. Hello Kitty tuk-tuk, Malacca



Funicular Montserrat, Barcelona

That cable car in Derbyshire.

 

[Silas Loom]

Are those the unlicensed minicabs that TfL warn about? I can see why the rights owners would be upset.

 

[8ball]

Are funiculars that unusual?

Electric unicycle, small group of drunk student girls and double decker car for me.

 

[8ball]

I don't think I've been on a suspended monorail but I have been on the Bangkok one, thinking about it. It's about the only way you can avoid the gridlock some days.

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I went on something that imagine looked a bit like that when I was in Denmark.

 

[planetgeli]

Are funiculars that unusual?

Not really, someone seems to mention them every second post. But nobody had mentioned Montserrat, and that has to be one of the best. Also done the one in Hastings and the one in Prague.

 

[planetgeli]

Dug out canoe down the Amazon. Canoes also common on here but that was a bit different and a bit terrifying.

Back of Toyota pick-ups in many places.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Are funiculars that unusual?

There are five in Genoa alone.

 

[planetgeli]

Kuranda skyrail (and scenic railway but trains don't count I guess).

 

[A380]

I don't think I've been on a suspended monorail but I have been on the Bangkok one, thinking about it. It's about the only way you can avoid the gridlock some days.

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That’s better than the one at Beuaulieu and the one at Epcot. Which I’ve been on. Plus a pedal powered one at Wickstead park, which I have peddled…

 

[A380]

 

[Puddy_Tat]

and further to previous, i have remembered that i have travelled on a milk float - must have been not that long after mum-tat broke her leg when i was about 6, milkman saw that she was struggling walking back from the nearest shops and gave us a lift up the road

 

[PTK]

Funicular railway.
Hot air balloon.
Elephant.

I've never been on a hovercraft but would like to.

You?

I went on a hovercraft from the Isle of Wight to the mainland and back when I was a child on holiday in the 1960s. It was, I think, an SRN6, but it could have been an SRN5. I regret never having crossed the Channel on an SRN4 car ferry hovercraft.

There was a restaurant/cafe on the Isle of Wight where you could sit on the terrace and watch the shipping, and experimental hovercraft going to and from the place that they were designed.

 

[trashpony]

I grew up in Belgium and came back to the U.K. to visit family at least twice a year.

We went on the hovercraft quite a few times (I live near the former hoverport now and it’s one of my favourite places) and once on the hydrofoil which went up on skis and went to and from St Katherine’s docks. That was pretty cool. The hovercraft was very noisy and very bouncy. My mum was convinced they aimed it at the waves but I think the channel is just choppy as fuck.

 

[PTK]

and further to previous, i have remembered that i have travelled on a milk float - must have been not that long after mum-tat broke her leg when i was about 6, milkman saw that she was struggling walking back from the nearest shops and gave us a lift up the road

When I was a teenager, my friend knew a milk delivery person and we got a lift on a milk float. I cannot remember why we got the lift

 

[T & P]

Like many others, various ferries and the odd cable car. The one that took us to the summit of El Teide in Tenerife was pretty good. As for ferries, the smaller the better for me. Fond memories of the tiny boat that takes you across the bay from Fowey to Polruan for all of three minutes

 

[PTK]

I grew up in Belgium and came back to the U.K. to visit family at least twice a year.

We went on the hovercraft quite a few times (I live near the former hoverport now and it’s one of my favourite places) and once on the hydrofoil which went up on skis and went to and from St Katherine’s docks. That was pretty cool. The hovercraft was very noisy and very bouncy. My mum was convinced they aimed it at the waves but I think the channel is just choppy as fuck.

Crossing the Solent was pretty bouncy, and I remember that there was one point when I thought we were going to come to grief.
I was told that the person driving had to have both a captain's licence and a pilot's licence. I think that I had a magazine about hovercraft. They were the transport of the future.

 

[A380]

… I think that I had a magazine about hovercraft. They were the transport of the future.

Almost all the legislation from the 60s to early 80s that refers to transport talks about ‘vehicle, vessel or hovercraft’ . I suspect that there was one obsessed MP….

 

[PTK]

There were military hovercraft. I believe that the USA used some in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam. The Shah of Iran's regime bought some for use in the on the border areas with Iraq.
The big rival to the hovercraft was the hydrofoil, which the USSR seemed to be very good at.

 

[8ball]

Back of Toyota pick-ups in many places.

Ones with a mounted machine gun?

Fun times.

 

[Wookey]

That’s better than the one at Beuaulieu and the one at Epcot. Which I’ve been on. Plus a pedal powered one at Wickstead park, which I have peddled…


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That is a fucking engineering triumph. It's like floating magic.

Wow.

 

[WouldBe]

That cable car in Derbyshire.

Heights of Abraham.

 

[Oula]

Funicular railway.
Hot air balloon.
Elephant.

I've never been on a hovercraft but would like to.

You?

All of those.
Plus camel
Seaplane
Cable car
Ski lift
Monorail
Cocotaxi
Tuktuk

I was on the hovercraft Dover to Calais. It was ok. Faster than the ferry. They should bring it back.

We took the hovercraft to France one year, on the way back it was really windy so they were cancelled. Think we had to wait ages to then get rebooked onto the ferry. Suspect that was a reason why they declined in popularity

I went on the last one out before it was stopped due to gale force winds. The waves were going over the top of the whole thing. Others in our group opted for the ferry instead and were all sick. At least our journey was short.

 

[Oula]

Also, the Rock Train to Donnington with Krusher as the compere.

Chain ferry.

Internal flight in Cuba in an ex-Aeroflot plane that had bits falling off it.

 

[Oula]

Miniature railway
Hydrofoil
Catermaran
Button ski lift
I was also dragged down the mountain on a stretcher by paramedics on skis

 

[trashpony]

Miniature railway
Hydrofoil
Catermaran
Button ski lift
I was also dragged down the mountain on a stretcher by paramedics on skis

All of those. The stretcher on skis was the least fun/ most painful

 

[hash tag]

A cyclo in Viet Nam both as passenger and cyclist.
Tuk tuk in Bankok
SS Waverley: a steam powered paddle steamer

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

They can have their moments tbf. You've probably been left swaying as some berk has fallen off or not got on - clearly the time for the hip flask and the shot pipe.

Though the last might be responsible for my only ever helicopter trip which was shit as I was lying down in the back groaning.


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Literally skiing over the twat in front who fell off the drag lift and thought the best thing to do was to roll around on the floor.

 

[8ball]

That’s better than the one at Beuaulieu and the one at Epcot. Which I’ve been on. Plus a pedal powered one at Wickstead park, which I have peddled…


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Bottom one looks like a death trap. Is it also somehow trying to look like a helicopter?