and I’ll move the earth? Check out some of these incredible photos of people transporting things on their two-wheelers, posted on Lord of the Logistics. Link via Neatorama.
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THAT explains it! Orville and Wilbur weren’t trying to fly! They were just moving roof awnings on their bike!
posted by Sheldon Siegel on 10-24-2006 at 12:24 pm
FINALLY people will believe me. I spent a year in Korea with the Army and saw those sights everyday. I had a picture of a motorcycle with a refridgerator on it but it’s been lost over time.
posted by Drew on 10-24-2006 at 2:58 pm
The only place to peddle a bike is in a bike shop. However, you can pedal a bike dang well anywhere…
I visited Africa a while back, and sights like that are pretty commonplace there, as in many 3rd world places. People will haul just about anything they can strap onto a bike or tiny motorcycle, and they come up with some marvelous contraptions built from bike & motorcycle parts — I remember seeing two guys hauling what looked to be a enough lumber to build a house on a two-wheeled cart made from bike wheels.
Speaking of people-powered conveyance, one site that I happened across a while back is Henry Workcycles; I can’t imagine pedaling a behemoth like the Classic Dutch Cargo Bike around the rolling prairie around here, but they are very cool to look at!
posted by Dave on 10-24-2006 at 8:44 pm
When I was in China, I saw four people riding a motorcycle, with a woman on the back breastfeeding her baby.
Great photos.
posted by James Clark on 10-25-2006 at 10:31 am