stackyFACTSAfter the original Trampe bike elevator proved successful, engineers upgraded it to the CycloCable. It's an entire underground mechanical wire-rope system specifically engineered to cure commuter laziness, built for the sole purpose of dragging sweating cyclists up a 130-meter slope at exactly 4 miles per hour.
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