I just wanted to point out that this work was actually a collaboration between the two artist Raphaël Zarka and Vincent Lamouroux. It's just Vincent seems to forget Zarka a little bit nowadays.
And just for the record I think that a lot what is nice about this project are the images of the two guys riding it and the little narrative these images put into play.
The point of art, in my option, is to be a space free of the usual practicalities and rational train of thought that makes up most of the world that surround us.
I know I'm being a little bit simplistic in this explanation, but I think it’s important not to judge everything by the same standards ie. judge art on the basis of engineering. Just as I would not like to see the merits of engineering judged basis of artistic quality.
Art works like this are almost always more like prototypes that production ready devices - Build on very limited budgets, by no specialist, they focus on communicating some sort of an idea or image.
So in the end I think this Pentacycle gives me a great feeling of possibility. Instead of looking at the abandoned test site as a site of failure or something like that. I get more of a positive utopian vibe - The world could be different, we could all be biking on top of monorail tracks. It opens up the possibility that we could misuses and misunderstand "failed" technologies in a positive way.