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Roland strapped his helmet on tightly, settled into his seat
and connected his 5-point harness and tightened the straps.
He trusted the driver completely, as did the other 43
passengers on the bus.
They had 1,000 miles of mountainous terrain between
themselves and the finish line, and 23
other fully laden buses
in the race, all mechanically identical.
This was gonna be lit as hell itself!
Prior art
https://www.youtube...watch?v=CqtWb67AmWU
School's out! [2 fries shy of a happy meal, Dec 06 2020]
In-drive refuelling
In-drive_20refuelling
Range extension. [8th of 7, Dec 07 2020]
Rally Raid Truck Class
https://en.wikipedi...s%E2%80%94T4_and_T5
[bs0u0155, Dec 07 2020]
[link]
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It took me a minute since we don't have Greyhound service
here in the middle of nowhere. Once I got it, I got it. Ha.
(Roland has been missed around here.) |
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You're welcome, [blissy]. |
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+ Roland has dangerous ideas… |
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Gets bored easily when there's no fighting to be done. |
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I'm surprised this isn't a thing, seriously. Not necessarily with
a bus, but races with some amount of paying passengers
riding along? In stock car racing they take out the passenger
seats to install rollbars, re-enforcement etc. Put the seats
back, strap 3 or 4 passengers in and tell them to hang on. |
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I'd absolutely do this and so would a lot of other crazy
people. This is brilliant. [+] |
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//1,000 miles of mountainous terrain// |
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Some of those Japanese designs might include a 5-point harness and energy recovery. |
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I don't care if there's a pun in the title if it's a good idea like this one. |
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//strap 3 or 4 passengers in and tell them to hang on.// |
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You would have to be careful of weight and distribution. |
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If it's like the mountain roads of British Columbia or South
America, you'll crap yourself on the first curve. |
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// mountain roads of British Columbia or South America // |
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There are some ... entertaining ... "roads" on the Costa Brava, north of Barcelona. Hairpin bends to die for (or indeed on). BC is relatively mild by comparison, at least in the summer. |
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The risks in Latin America are more a function of the other traffic i.e. ancient trucks without brakes. |
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[+] Obviously. Crash protection might be difficult to
achieve. The standard roll cage works because it's a
relatively strong structure encapsulating a small volume.
If you scale that up, the potential forces start to multiply
because of reasons outside my engineering lexicon, self-
leverage? Should be doable though. |
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The bathroom breaks could be taken care of by running
the race in stages, like the longer rally races. In addition,
it would be useful to make sure some of the passengers
were mechanically minded. |
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//There are some ... entertaining ... "roads" on the Costa
Brava,// |
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It's a whole lot better than it was. My dad has photos
from the 80's. Half of Spain and Portugal could be
mistaken for a Paris-Dakar rally stage back then. |
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// some of the passengers were mechanically minded. // |
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Actually, the bus could carry its own pit crew, and a selection of spare parts, tools and equipment. |
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With seats and controls for both driver and co-driver, allowing rolling crew changes, and in-drive refuelling <link>, the bus wouldn't need to stop during the race. Some upmarket coaches have onboard flush toilets. Some downmarket coaches jut have an opening window at the back... |
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//bus could carry its own pit crew, and a selection of spare
parts, tools and equipment.// |
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Practically the same as the Rally Raid support trucks. Always
fun when the support truck gets ahead of the car it's
supporting. Sometimes because of breakdowns, and
sometimes because the terrain suits a great big bruising
truck rather than some jumped-up Citroen hatchback. |
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The idea came up because my son was considering getting
into motorsport, and then we started thinking about
passengers and it grew into paying passengers and then I
figured a Greyhound bus would give the highest income yield
and... |
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//my son was considering getting into motorsport// |
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How about a Unabubba's bub's unicycle? |
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//the highest income yield // Surely beaten by rail racing? I have never heard of a double-track mainline being cleared and two trains set off simultaneously side by side for a head to head race. |
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It's been done on heritage lines, in an informal way - but not on a main line. Legally, it would be a bit of a nightmare in Europe. |
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There were some "tests" on the L&M and the GWR before they were opened to public traffic. If Mr. Brunel asks you to see how fast your locos will go, it's highly unlikely that any driver would demur. |
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