Rotorua's Shweeb

  

"What?" Well, the post about the Wuppertal Schwebebahn gives the origin of the term, obviously the creator of this sports amusement in Rotorua decided to give the word a custom spelling.

Inside the cars you pedal like a bicycle and can race against the clock or an opponent  A few details from the website

* Minimum height requirement is 1.1 metres
* One - four people can Shweeb at any one time
* Each race is three laps of the 200 metre race track (600 metres)
* You will use around half the energy of a racing bike and 1/3rd of a mountain bike
* Opened in October 2007
* The oldest person to race on the Shweeb is 84
* Since opening over 40,000 rides have been done at the Shweeb