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Tuscan Mountain creds(?)

Mysterious Sue

Strata Poster
On holiday last week, I visited the coastline of the Tuscan hills, where there's a very popular tourist spot called the Cinque Terre. It's famous for tiny, multicoloured villages that are very inaccessible by car. I did drive out to some and the roads are not recommended (although there is a train). Some photos to set the scene:

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Out there, I discovered these 'such a creds' that carry goods down the mountain side to people's homes. There were loads and loads of them, I must have counted around twenty along just one section of road.

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Has anyone come across these before?
Has anyone actually ridden in one?
Are they creds?
 

Ben

CF Legend
That's amazing haha!

Do they coast? How quick do they go? How do they get back up?

I want one to my house haha.
 

Mysterious Sue

Strata Poster
I've no idea how they work as I never saw one in action (although I did see one being loaded, but couldn't stop to watch it). I'm assuming they're a bit like a powered cred?! There seems to be a saw tooth edge going on with the track though so no idea how that works. I guess it's to stop you rolling back but must be pretty bumpy?!
 

cjbrandy

Hyper Poster
^ lately on my iphone 5C its been taking a lot longer than usual for posts to be submitted and whenever I re tap "submit" it results in a double post. Im guessing he's experiencing a similar issue.
 

GuyWithAStick

Captain Basic
cjbrandy said:
^ lately on my iphone 5C its been taking a lot longer than usual for posts to be submitted and whenever I re tap "submit" it results in a double post. Im guessing he's experiencing a similar issue.

Same for my VS840 4G. I think it might be Tapatalk. I also can't post pictures from 'Tapatalk Hosted'. I also can't look up any more Forums and boards. I'm still on Tapatalk 2, so that might be why.

Sent from my VS840 4G using Tapatalk
 

Gazza

Giga Poster
Mysterious Sue said:
Thanks for the video, that's so fab. But I don't really get why it just goes from one road to the other. Why not drive?

They'd use it to get whatever they are growing from the terraces to the nearest road and taken to market right?
 

vaugc002

Mega Poster
Sorry guys for the triple post.... not quite sure what happened...

Yeah I guess they must save a load of time/ effort as opposed to going by road

(Apologies in advance if the repeat post thing happens again)
 

Thekingin64

Strata Poster
Those are cool looking things! Still amazed at how steep they are in places but the driver is still able to keep it controlled!

EDIT: Just found a video of the same track but going up. Makes you realise how steep it actually is!

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