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Direct quote from the site:

ALWAYS KEEP IN MIND, you should use railbikes ONLY on ABANDONED lines!!

Sounds like the disclaimer they use when selling e-scooters... ("this is not for the road etc.")

From the pictures, it looks like it has plastic guide wheels but if it were conductive to short out the two rails, it would activate the signals and any trains will be stopped before they reach you.

mschuster91|4 years ago

Do not ever rely on this sort of safety mechanism. There are also systems in use that rely on axle counters and bookkeeping - basically, on each block they count the incoming and the outgoing axles. When your draisine now is either too lightweight to trigger an axle counter or you set it on the rails in the middle of a block, the ops central won't know you are there.

bananapear|4 years ago

Or another Railbike travelling in the opposite direction?

evanb|4 years ago

Obviously you must stick to the schedule to allow for passing of oncoming or overtaking rail traffic at sidings.

queuep|4 years ago

The ones I've rode look like these[0], so in case they are running in different directions, you can easily lift up the one side with just one wheel on both vehicles, and then just push them. Simple and not a heavy lift either.

[0] https://hemomkringvandring.se/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG...

Kaibeezy|4 years ago

Definitely an issue with personal rail travel, whether from the opposite direction or an unclearable traffic jam in the same direction, and whether two rails or mono.

PhasmaFelis|4 years ago

One of you gets off the track to allow the other to pass.

A normal bicycle can be lifted in one hand. This looks more unwieldy but not too much heavier. It shouldn't be hard.

(If two riders are both so oblivious that neither sees the other coming from at least a quarter-mile off, they deserve to crash.)

robin_reala|4 years ago

If it’s like the ones I’ve been on, you either lift them off the rails, or if you’re just hiring them, sometimes just both turn yours the other way and swap.

viraptor|4 years ago

Then you stop, take one off the rails and swap positions.

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