Human Powered Vehicles

Pedaling with your Feet Bicycle
Wheels on your Feet Inline Skates | All-Terrain Skiing/Skating | Road Skiing | Off-Road Skiing (grass skiing)
Kicking with your Feet Skateboarding | Scootering | Kicksledding | Hiking (yes, that's right!)

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Bah.  Who needs a motor with all the noise, fumes, pollution, and expense it produces.  Let's use our own bodies to propel overselves in the great outdoors and get great exercise in the process.

This human powered vehicles section only includes land based human powered vehicles.  That excludes human powered adventures on water, snow and ice which are described elsewhere.  Land based vehicles powered by other means such as wind, gravity, motor or animal are also described elsewhere.

Pedaling with your Feet (or rarely Hands)
The bicycle is the most popular and versatile human powered vehicle.  As a land based vehicle its biggest disadvantage is its size, it requires a lot of space to store as opposed to say inline skates.  Its biggest advantage is the terrain it can handle.

Wheels on your Feet
Inline Skates
Inline skates have boots you wear on your feet with three or more wheels in a straight line on each boot.  The wheels are usually tiny so for best results inline skates should be used on the smoothest pavement you can find.  Inline skates are one of the most popular summer urban sports that cheap skates can be found almost anywhere.  Inline skates are even sometimes a way to commute to work, especially in big cities.

Inline skates biggest advantage is they are easily stored.  With a bicycle you would have to lock it up outside while with inline skates you could put them in your locker.  However, inline skates take up a lot more room on a road which makes them impratical for narrow busy roads.

All-Terrain Skating/Skiing
This is decribed in its own section.  See All-Terrain Skating/Skiing.

Road Skiing aka Rollar Skiing
Road skiing is used mostly for cross-country ski racers as a cross training activity.  When there is no snow you do road skiing instead.  Rollar skiing is fairly limited in the areas it can be practiced.

Rollar skiing guide http://www.xcskiworld.com/training/rollerguide.htm

Off-Road Skiing
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Kicking with your Feet
Skateboarding
Skateboarding started out as kids reduced scooters to the bare minimum turning them into a simple version of the skateboard.  The first skateboards rode very poorly and unsafely but have improved over time.  For more information check out my Skateboarding section.

Kick Scooters (aka Foot Scooters, Push Scooters)
Scootering  Scooters are a popular means of proplusion that compete with inline skates and bicycles.  The advantage of scooters is you can actually carry them  with you inside most stores.  Just don't actually use them inside the stores however, that wouldn't be appreciated.  Scooters are more popular with kids than adults. 

Kicksledding
See the kicksledding section.  Kicksledding is an old and disapparing way of getting around.

Hiking
Hiking is a minimalist way of getting around on your own power.  It doesn't require any vehicle at all.  See the hiking section for more details.