interesting bike sightings

[Kiwi Stoker]

In a recent trip to Egypt we saw a young man delivering pita bread on a bike.

He had a huge wooden tray-plank on his head piled with bread and rode one handed through tiny busy streets.

[DebSP]

Okay I haven't actually seen this but....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BROYA12tQH4

I might like to see it just for fun!

[Trek420]

Seen on the way to work. I just love the colors:

[Trek420]

Another bike Friday:

[kmehrzad]

Saw this while visiting Toronto several weeks ago ... a modified Big Dummy, family style.

[Trek420]

If this is your bike "nice bike" Sort of a "poor man's Riv"

[OakLeaf]

Wish I'd got a better picture. And also one of the bike during a delivery, instead of after.



This bike belongs to the Continental Tire sportscar racing service crew. If you look closely you can see that the front end is made from a hand truck for carrying sportscar race wheels from the team garages to the tire tent and back. The whole front end tips back (just like a normal hand truck) and the truck handles serve as the handlebars for the bike. (It's possible the handles are modified for better ergonomics, I can't see them in the picture, and I had only a couple of seconds to snap this shot before the guy got on it and rode away.)

DH assures me that the race wheels and tires are very, very light, so handling the thing wouldn't be as impossible as I'd imagined.

I don't know much about car racing - it's not unusual for motorcycle racers and their crews to use bicycles to get around, as an alternative to pit scooters - but I've never seen a pedal vehicle being used to transport stuff at a motor race before, especially not a specially modified vehicle.