Genius
 

Modified kids bike frame.
Front wheel drive.
Mountain bike fork for a seatpost.
Cheapo office chair for a saddle.

Purple awesomeness.

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c2...psf6a92203.jpg

This is how 'bents got invented. Then, somehow, people started taking them serious.

Just about everything on that bike is interesting. Do you know that guy or was it a chance encounter?

Chance encounter. Whoever put that together is a true engineer.

I want to party with both rider and inventor

You could probably fit a wine bottle in that holder.

That is a wine bottle holder that just happens to fit a water bottle as well.

This is what made our country what it is.

Wow :eek:

I bet the hardest part was finding the matching purple seat!! I think I see valve stem in the rear tires so they look to be pressurized versus solid. I find myself really studying that thing........

+1, maybe 3. Brilliant analysis.

I'm thinking he did it the other way around - found a spray can to color match the seat.

I see two cables coming from the handlebar but no brake.

Brakes are over-rated.

But..............does look like a brake is on the front of the most forward piece of the 'fork-thing' below the crankset. Not on the original fork.

Cruzbike will be introducing their own version of this thing very soon.

Yup. All they do is slow you down.

Agreed. The genius of the bike is that it can be configured in so many ways and still be recognized as a bike.

this weekend I am riding in Monterey CA. One of the bike trails goes past a homeless encampment of sorts. Many of these guys have turned "throw away" bikes into veritable works of engineering art, converting them into transport vehicles for their worldly possessions. Truly amazing!

Yup. Kinda reminds me of Roland.

http://www.bikeforums.net/fifty-plus...ll-roland.html

I haven't seen him in quite a while.

S. Cal location means that it must be an invention that crossed the border. Deport it.

Ingenious!

But, is the bike stable? It appears top and front heavy.

I have not seen him either.

I did see him once, at Neptune's Net. He was quite a sight. Since then I have seen other riders pulling similar "transports" but none in the scale of Roland.

I wish I had talked to him. :(