bridges that rely on tension-only elements; don't push on a rope.

[Daniel Kalal]

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[Sasquatch Jim]

  How to bridge the gap.

[oldbike54]

 Thanks Deke , are you coming to Cedar Vale ? Pretty cool old bridge to photograph there .

  Dusty

[not-fishing]

How about the one that was rebuilt a few years ago in Folsom.  It's a bike bridge now. 





The "tension" elements are not cables but the "bike chain" along the bottom of the bridge.  Break one and the whole bridge wants to come down.  That's why they quit building them over a hundred years ago.

[Testarossa]

Love this one, the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam:

Not my photo

[Tobit]

Sunshine Skyway, Tampa

Ok, just the center section.  It was the first of this type that I rode a motorcycle across.

[screamday]

Sunshine Skyway, Tampa

Ok, just the center section.  It was the first of this type that I rode a motorcycle across.

The old Sunshine Skyway bridge was more fun to ride a motorcycle over. The longest metal grate bridge I ever rode on. Great view too as you rode over you could look down into the bay.  :)

[john fish]

Probably doesn't match the title, I just thought it was interesting that wood was used as the main support in a fairly modern bridge.

[Ad B]

Hi Daniel (and others...),

nice photo's, you're showing here.
In the years I also made a few...
In Rotterdam, the Netherlands:

Our famous Erasmus bridge (photo taken from our hotel room at the 7th floor...).

The bridge in the evening.

A bridge in a walking path in the Pyrenees.

About 250 mtr (820 Ft) deep...

A bridge in the highway, crossing the valley and the river Le Tarn near to Millau, France.

2,5 km (1.6 Mls) long.

Took us nearly the whole day and a 50 km (31 Mls) ride (also over dirt roads) to take a lot of these pictures.
My wife wasn't amused anymore at the end of the day...

I like architecture and bridges are a part of that...

Ad B

[Daniel Kalal]

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John,
Certainly it matches.  Arch-Suspension bridges are always graceful things.  You don't see the wood ones too often; EnWood structures out of Raleigh, NC specializes in designing and building them.

Here's an often-photographed arch-suspension in Utah.

[Tobit]

Old Cooper River bridge demolition after the new Arthur Ravenel Jr. bridge was opened in Charleston SC.  The old one was a scary ride at night, especially in the rain.

Not my pics.

[rocker59]

John,
Certainly it matches.  Arch-Suspension bridges are always graceful things.  You don't see the wood ones too often; EnWood structures out of Raleigh, NC specializes in designing and building them.

Here's an often-photographed arch-suspension in Utah.

The contrast of the red rocks against the silver-painted steel really make that bridge at Hite Utah stand out.  It's not that big a bridge, but it's in a dramatic setting!

[Penderic]

Tension? Rope?  ;-T

[rocker59]

That's kind of nutty!  I'd feel a lot better if there were four logs down for each side!   :o

[Tobit]

Tension? Rope?  ;-T

Darien Gap, Panama?

[nikwax]

new bridge in Portland, pedestrian/bicycle/train only:

[john fish]

John,
Certainly it matches.  Arch-Suspension bridges are always graceful things.  You don't see the wood ones too often; EnWood structures out of Raleigh, NC specializes in designing and building them.

Thanks, Daniel.  The bridge that I posted isn't far from me in West Virginia and I have to admit that I rode over it many times before I realized that it was wood.  Lovely things, wooden bridges. 

I had to look up Enwoods' web site where I found this lovely thing: