History Of Shasheer's Recumbent Bicycle or Pedal-Car
Following based on hypnosis on and meditation by sysop of this site, regarding apparent alternative planet that appears in sysop's past-lives. Information is five-percent based on findings in hypnosis/meditation, 95-percent filled in by imagination!First, a wee bit of vocabulary here...
- Shasheerian - Citizen of "Shasheer". Shasheer is the "randomly generated" name I assigned to the land/world/planet of the Amazons.
- Taqh - A Shasheerian race which is large in stature, with blond hair and golden skin.
- Betaqh - The smaller Shasheerian race that has black hair and cocoa-brown skin. They would impress us as similar to "Chinese", or maybe, Indians.
On this site, the legend of the "land/world/planet of the amazons" includes the pedal-car (recumbent bicycle). Most folks probably assume the Shasheerian pedal-car went through a "bicycle stage" in its development. In meditations on Shasheer, and stories and miscellaneous what-not that came to me over the decades of rendering muscle women and their world, the following curious history of the pedal-car came through...
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Two Shasheerians; left, Betaqh-race and right, Taqh race, about to enter their pedal-cars to go home after a hike in the mountains. 
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Pedal-cars and too much clothing do not mix... The conservatively dressed lady disrobes to nude for ride home. The big gal will go as she is... 
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The Shasheerian pedal-car technology is over 5000 years old. Shasheerians have been using pedal-cars so long, their bodies have actually began to "evolutionarily" adjust to them. The vision I received of that "real" Shasheerian showed me an ectomorphic (skinny body-type) woman with out-of-proportion butt and legs, apparently adjusted for a life-time of pedaling human powered vehicles. The muscles of her butt and legs were huge and rock-hard and were more like steel cables than flesh. If anything, my art reduces, somewhat, the out-of-proportion legs and butt of the Shasheerians.
Shasheer apparently has no petroleum and never has (or never been discovered). Relying only on bio-fuels (fuel-oils pressed from plants) provided a comfortable "electric" life-style (though they always had to watch their electric usage) but never was sufficient for prolific use by engine-powered vehicles. So Shasheerians have been using pedal-cars since they can remember.
The pedal-car has been refined, and as pointed out above, Shasheerians have even gone through what appears to be the beginning of an evolutionary adjustment to the pedal-car. This results in a race of people that can jump into one of these human-powered-vehicles and take off with hardly a thought. They easily achieve speeds of thirty to forty miles per hour and can maintain it for hours on end. Shasheerians can knock off any hill, including grueling steep, long climbs, common in their native mountainous land, with ease.
Need or necessity is the "Mother Of Invention". What need did Shasheerians have that gave birth to the pedal-car? Why did it not go through a "bicycle stage"?
Going back well over 5000 years, maybe almost 6000 years, we find a woman-dominated culture that was already growing bio-fuel-plants for fuel that was used for cooking and heating but no electricity yet.
Interestingly (and I do keep picking up this thing about two races, one race is smaller but some how, smarter and more wily than the simple larger race), the smaller Betaqh either enslaved, or paid, the larger Taqh to be pullers of plows, hand-cars (rickshaws), large wagons and general workers and "beasts of burden". Taqh women, especially, being stronger and possessing more stamina than Taqh men, were used to transport stuff.
To travel, if one was Taqh, one simply hiked... and hiked and hiked and hiked, over and through endless trails through the mountains and country. Betaqh sat in wagons or hand-cars and were pulled by Taqh (women, usually) over the trails.From time to time, a traveler would be attacked by a beast from the mountains (anything similar to, say, mountain lions, bears, wolves and even a dinosaur-like beast) requiring escape to shelter. If pulling a wagon full of Betaqh, the Pullers would scramble into the wagon. Noxious sprays were used to drive the beast off.
Then there was the problem of sleeping. Taqh Pullers slept under or just inside the wagon. But...
Often Taqh Pullers traveled by themselves. It could be a trip for their own reason. Or she may have been ordered to transport some manner of load. In any case, the Taqh lady would set off into the mountains without the protection of a wagon. The load may be contained in a back-pack, or in a small cart-like thing, similar to a rickshaw, that they pulled.
The big, strong, physically capable Taqh women (and sometimes, men) could scramble up trees, rocky ledges, or other ways to get away from a beast. A club, bow-and-arrow or chemical spray would be used to drive off the attacker.
But what about sleep? At night, nocturnal predators roamed. They could catch a sleeping camper off guard.
Long ago, the resourceful Taqh ladies began modifying the way they carried loads. Even if they only had a back-pack, they pulled a cart with enough room for laying down in. During the day, the Puller just plopped her back-pack in there. At night, she slept in the cart, protected by its metal frame and body.
The carts they pulled for bigger loads were also modified for a space for sleeping. Before, the carts were kind of rickshaw-like, unsuitable for laying down in and offering no protection. The Taqh women began building and using longish, low carts with more protection that could be slept in. The carts kept rain and predators off them. At night, the load sat on the ground outside the cart but under a tarp. The tarp and other provisions were made for protecting the load from the weather. The predators generally were not interested in the loads.
Using a harness that lay on the Taqh woman's big, well-formed hips, the reins pulled at the front-wheel-set of the cart, pulling and steering it.
Eventually, it was found, in their hilly environment, that if going down hill, the Puller could rest a bit and take the load off her feet by sitting on the cart, letting it roll. Steering and braking, for steeper down-hills, was a problem. The Taqh ladies began modifying the front wheels so that they could be controlled from the position of sitting atop the cart. The tiller-bar was then developed. The lady would sit atop the cart, straddling it in the manner of horse riding. That way, her feet were available for use as brakes. Later, simple dragging brakes were added to save their feet from such rough use. Later, the Puller ladies even mounted a comfortable cushion on the front of the cart.
Over the years, these additions and modifications were integrated into all carts.
At this point, we observe a cart that can be slept in, and has a seat, tiller-bar and primitive brakes for comfortable hill descents.
This development probably occurred well over 6000 years ago. Refinements were made (like rear-axle-mounted drum or disk brakes) and the design remained unchanged for quite some time.
Shasheerians take their time. Their technology progresses slowly, quite frankly.
Finally, someone came up with the idea of making it possible to turn the wheels from the sitting position. Pedals coupled to at least one wheel through linkages and levers were used. This "quantum leap" allowed the Puller to sit throughout the whole trip.
Refinements included, first, placing the seat more toward the middle of the cart (more stable) and later, making it lower, into the cart a bit (for even more stability). At this point, we now have a primitive pedal-car!
The primitive pedal-cars were slow, not much faster than walking. But they were certainly a lot more comfortable.
Slowly the improvements came. Better ways of coupling pedals to wheel, coupling to both rear wheels, later still, a differential was developed for driving both rear wheels and stable steering.
The pedal-car was so effective (and cool), they began to be mass-manufactured. Pedal-cars that were designed just for the rider with only minimal luggage space were developed. Betaqh race folks used them as well, for shorter trips and for playing around. By the time of just over 5000 years ago, the pedal-car was pretty much established.
Sometime long ago the three-wheel pedal-car was developed. Two front wheels with one driving rear wheel made for a sleeker, lighter design that was just as stable to steer, but dropped the weight and complexity of the differential and the weight and maintenance of one wheel. Three-wheel pedal-cars have almost no trunk space however, they are useful only for commuting or sport riding.
