Your triceps will be fabulous

Readers who are looking for a different kind of workout may wish to purchase a Champiot Ultra, the "rowing machine on wheels."

It is a little four-wheel buggy that is propelled by the rider using his arms to pull and push on a yoke, which drives the rear wheels. It is similar to an old-style railroad velocipede. You could alternate with your bicycle and work out a different pair of limbs on different days. Except I'm not sure you it would be legal, or wise, to operate your Champiot Ultra in the street. But on a trail, you could scoot.

I can't tell if it has the ability to shift gears, so I'm not sure how it would be on hills. But it has hand brakes.

When I was a kid, I remember a similar machine being sold for kids; it was called an "Irish Mail." I never had one, but they looked like fun.

Champiot also sells similarly-propelled watercraft, called the Rowlake, in which the motion of the yoke turns a paddlewheel. Hm. If you are going to use a rowing motion to propel a boat, why not just row?

Posted: Tue - October 30, 2007 at 11:08 AM

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