im stunned

I hope he has lawyer lips on his rear dropouts.

Now that...wow, just...wow.

that....and I guess anything is better than looking like be-yotch on a mixte. that's probably the only way a man can ride a mixte and keep his balls.

^Not a mixte.

Why? Does a mixte by definition have a 3rd pair of stays?

Just curious....cuz in any case it's a girls' frame.

I was just thinking about flipping a bike upside down kinda like this. It was one of those things that only lives inside my head and I chuckle and move on.

idk about you guys, but im pumped to make one for myself!!!

I dunno...off-the-cuff I'm going to go ahead and forecast that the elevated down -tube frame will be an even shorter-lived fad than the Mantis descended elevated chain stay frames!!

Some assembly required...

How did he get the head tube angle like that? Shouldn't it go the other way?

If the bike wasnt upside down, it would be the other way, but since Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde got a hold of it, everything is a bit whacky! Its wild to see what's out there

It relates to commuting how?

That bike makes me think of a Dr. Seuss contraption.

Bottom Bracket in the air
Can he ride it? Does he dare?
I would not ride that bike alone.
I would not ride it while on the phone.

The chainstays they are wrong way round
Never such a bike I've found.
And the seat tube nearly scrapes the ground
I find this vehicle most unsound!
I will not ride it in the rain
I feel it would be quite a pain--
(especially if my foot slipped off the pedals...)

It didn't until you question it. You just added the commuting angle (the discussion of whether it had anything to do with commuting)

I just put it here because this awesome guy either found it, made it, or who the hell knows, and he uses it as his means of transportation.... we should all be so lucky! haha

I just cant figure out how the "speaker stays" are connected??? braze-ons from a rack and then welded to the BB maybe?

He won't keep his balls if he slips off the pedals. The chainring looks "hungry".

The speaker stays are the rear triangle of another bike, with the top tube flipped and welded to the BB.
Everyone knows that's the preferred speaker stay mount.


The spoke reflectors make it look dorky.

Man, with my last bike purchase, "speaker stays" weren't even an option! I feel so sleighted. All I got offered was a lousy rear rack. And to think, I could have been a roving beat box, spreading my love of Menudo with NW DC.

Most bikes are built like that in that upside down region of the earth like near the Anarctica

That's a nice aerodynamic position for the rider...

*Golf clap* Well done!

One of my main in-town commuting bikes during the '90s was an upside-down bike. I took the more upright approach of having extensions for the seat and handlebars welded on by the builder. The builder was none other than Peter Wagner of Whymcycle fame. Like most of his creations, the upside-down bike came out of a dumpster.

If bike safety is a matter of being noticed by the motorists, this was one of the safest bikes I ever rode.

That is certainly the flat-back cycling position roadies crave.

This guy rides for the Texas Tech Red Raider Freestyle Team...I've seen him before. This is a publicity still taken near the University. Plug these coordinates into Google Earth and it will take you to his Chevron Mini Mart shoot: LAT 33°34'40.73"N/LON 101°52'12.74"W. That frame is a custom Ti from Merlin .