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Monday, September 10, 2007

Next big thing: Tube surfing?


Lonnie Green, the head honcho of American Flyer bicycles, has received a patent for a cruiser bike that has a surfboard-shaped top-tube. The press we've seen about this, especially at Bicycle Retailer, suggests that this is merely a fadish new shape for a toptube for your average Californicator. (God knows, we've seen everything in recent years from octagonal tubing to the square snot-slots of box aluminum: Hello, Tarmac!)

We'd love to see the actual patent application for this thing though. That's a good place to sit a kid, or a pony keg of beer. Hell, why not give that form some function and actually surf the top tube?

A million wannabee freestylers all wake up from their daydreams...

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