Tallbike simian

[Sporkinum]

http://www.rat-patrol.org/Archives/monkey_high_bike.jpg

I was amused....

[frameteam2003]

If you take a good look at the bike--you'll see that it's a really fine looking "Tall-Bike".a lot better looking than most up-side-down,or two frame tall bikes.Looks to be two forks.---sam

[Johnny Payphone]

The earliest evidence of the concept of flipping or stacking frames that I've ever come across was in the 1960s. Clearly most tallbikes of that era (and every bike that survives in photographs) were made that way from scratch. I suspect that you need to have bikes laying around to inspire mass modification, and the bike as junk didn't really exist until after the car boom of the 50s.

If Spork had credited my site (ahem) you could see many more examples of pre-1990 tallbikes:

A history of the tallbike 1890-1990 (http://www.johnnypayphone.net/tallbikes/)

(note that all tallbikes of that era were fixies, including the skiptooth one the monkey's riding)

[Sporkinum]

If Spork had credited my site (ahem) you could see many more examples of pre-1990 tallbikes:

A history of the tallbike 1890-1990 (http://www.johnnypayphone.net/tallbikes/)

(note that all tallbikes of that era were fixies, including the skiptooth one the monkey's riding)

I found it using google, but when I was there, I thought you might be associated with it.

Credit where credit is due! Props to Johnnypayphone!

[RobertHurst]

I thought this thread was going to be about this:

http://www.eleventooth.com/vids/chongo.avi

[Artkansas]

(note that all tallbikes of that era were fixies, including the skiptooth one the monkey's riding)


Actually I thought it looked like a Baboon. I was impressed because Baboons aren't that often trained.