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Submitted By: Dickson L
Editor’s Note: Thanks to Fixer “Otto” for pointing out the originator of this abomination as Ryan McFarland and that “You Too Can Kludge This” over here. Though I refuse to take responsibility should your kludgery end in mangled limbs.
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Great fun to steer, I’d say!
Third!
I wonder how he intends to steer that.
…upon closer inspection, I see nothing attaching the cart to the bike. Fake much?
I saw one of these once and got to try it out
http://www.mikehulsebus.com/album135-bike-modifications.htm
The hard part about steering is that only two shopping card wheels stay on the ground and you fishtail (fishfront?) back and forth when you try to turn. I’m sure some clever engineer could figure out a way to prevent this (perhaps this guy already did)
I don’t see it attached anywhere either..
If it is attached the same way as the one in the link that “Mike” left, then it is connected via the handlebar clamp. Quite clever actually. As already mentioned, I bet it is a b**ch to steer though
I think it’s attached at the handlebars which, along with no helmet, short pants and flip-flops, makes it perfectly safe for riding on the highway. “Clean-up on aisle four!”
The guy should have used a zillion bike locks like the other guy. His front wheel is probably still locked to a bike rack somewhere.
It’s also not legal to steal someone’s front tire when it’s parked at the grocery store. That’s my best guess at what happened.
Some comments mention it doesn’t look attached – I’m guessing he’s holding on to the handlbars and the shopping cart handle at the same time.
Make your own!
http://www.instructables.com/id/Cart-Bike/
i’ve got some thought that this guy his frontwheel was stolen, ya know, he still needs to get home though.
Does it come the optional rickshaw attachment?
“Necessity?”
Yes, ‘invention’ has a mother. In this case, perhaps a stepmother or foster mother?
redneck training wheels
i thought that was the cart bike from instructables…..
Riding bicycle with flip-flops is not a good idea in the first place! Man that’s gonna leave a mark when he hits!
Love it. If they can just fix the steering, they should be mass produced.
Nice flip-flops
Just the thing for the homeless guy on the go.
I think if they used the shopping carts from IKEA the problem with the steering would be solved. since all the wheels on those carts turn. Then it would be a matter of just leaning to turn.
@berrie~blu
i thought that was the cart bike from instructables….
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It is…
http://www.instructables.com/id/Cart-Bike/
@YvesPaul, there are mass-produced cart-bikes, or really cart-trikes. The basket is on the back, with two wheels at its sides and the front half is the same as any other bike. Probably quite a bit safer than this, but can’t be easily converted back to a normal bike.
This is putting the cart before the horse’s ass.
How about “Try-cycle!”… With his good attempt to replace his front wheel!
Or like “Triclycle” being the mix between Trolly and Bicycle xD
*”Tricycle”
i wore flip flops once on my bike. one fell off and got ran over by car. happy days. hmm – if i were him i would weelie all the way
It’s an obvious photoshop. Notice all of the pixelation artifacts where the front wheel should be? Also around his hands.
@keego
No offense but this is a 500 x 375 pixel image with a resolution of 72ppi. His hands are 12 pixels wide at best. In the space of 12 pixels, you’re lucky if you can even see a color variaton, much less “obvious pixelation”. I CAN see that it looks like he’s sitting on the seat post and not a seat but still, I don’t smell a conspiracy.
Woot! Here’s a video clip of that contraption in action for the photoshop conspirists.
http://www.zieak.com/2008/11/06/the-cart-bike-continues-to-be-popular-in-mainstream-media/
There was a little alcohol involved in the idea and execution of the project… It was awful to steer and made a horrible noise on the rougher sections of road.
It was fun!
Yep obvious photoshop. Curious how they bothered to ‘shop some 500 frames of video, isn’t it?
You need to learn a bit more faith, grashopper.
(Or a bit more Photoshop)
I so want one!
@The Cat
Didja go to the linked website and read? Nylon zip ties. They ain’t gonna show at that resolution. Not everything on der webs is a photoshop job.
That f*cking c*cks*cker stole my bike, bring it back to Sunnyvale Trailer Park right now ya’ c*cks*cker!
Nice, but E.T. bounces out on the smallest bumps.
Epic hurt in… 3…2…1…
OF THE LOT?
what u mean the bike?
There goes the high price of groceries! Do you know what it costs for the store to replace those things?
At first I, too, thought he must have had his front wheel stolen in the grocery store parking lot, and found an innovative way to still bike home. Then I saw the video of how he made this. I still often use a bike trailer to pick up groceries. I can’t imagine this solution working better than having the original front wheel attached.
Just a hot ass mess!!! My goodness!
Hey, is that Al Bundy driving that thing?!
This is perfect for those wanting to cut down on car emmisions and still be able to bring home all your purchases from the grocery store!
really????????? flip flops!!!!!?!?!?!?!?
Watched the video clip of this beast in action, and the turning radius is about as good as a brick with fixed Lego wheels.
I could pile a few cases of beer in there.
That’s not legal…He’s not wearing a helmet!
My next invention- a mobile BBQ, for barbecue on the go! burning logs on the bottom rack, warming rack up above, I call it: barbecuecycle.
@JammyGeeza:
Technically, this would be a quinticycle. A UNIcycle has one wheel, a BIcycle two, a TRIcycle three, and a QUADRIcycle four. Since this has four under the shopping cart portion and one from the bicycle portion, it has five wheels in total and is therefore a quinticycle.
obviously fake.. the trolly isnt to scale.. its tiny.. plus the bikes forks arnt connected to anything