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Friday, October 19, 2007

"Bike Hacking" Best of Show

Wired has put together what its calling a collection of "hacker bikes." As you know, the proper nomenclature around these parts is clown bikes, and our friend Zieack, the bike-cart boy, makes the list again.

But we were especially interested in Jesse Ingham's "railbike," and hereby declare it the PFN "Best of Show."





Consider the ramifications: There's potentially hundreds of millions of dollars to be saved on local rails-to-trails programs. It would be so much cheaper to just fit all American bicycles with these awesome outriggers!

Boys, we need us a shitheap of lawnmower wheels...

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

google railbike.

Anonymous said...

I saw one if these 25 years ago, nothing new here. Move along.

Anonymous said...

Y'all are right! Railbikes have been around since the 1860s. Who knew?!

http://www.railbike.com/history.htm