French company Seabike has developed a swimming device that uses your own leg power to accelerate you through the water at superhuman speeds. This crank-driven pusher prop looks a bit like an underwater unicycle... We'd love to take one for a spin!
  • nailingjello@lemmy.zipEnglish
    381·
    6 months ago

    They don’t discuss specific speeds, but this is from the last paragraph:

    This jigger, according to the manufacturers, makes you handily quicker than an equivalent swimmer with fins on.

    • fuckingkangaroos@lemm.eeEnglish
      141·
      6 months ago

      What’s “handily quicker”? A lot quicker? A good phrase for selling a novelty product?

      I have to wonder how the Seabike, as shown exclusively in a swimming pool rather than any of the many seas on the planet, actually performs.

        • BluesF@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          Yknow, I don’t think anyone’s ever made a bike powered version of those insane £200 electronic masturbators there are memes about these days… Eco wank anyone?

    • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
      51·
      6 months ago

      I’m very skeptical about that. It’s an expensive augmented swimming device that says it’s faster than fins but doesn’t prove it with stats or even just a side-by-side video…?

      • fine_sandy_bottomEnglish
        11·
        6 months ago

        Yeah. I’m just gonna say it’s not quicker, and certainly not more efficient.