Weird bikes from the '40s.
2013-05-08 21:12:51.442993+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
LIFE Magazine: Hell on Wheels: LIFE With Mutant Bicycles:
To Webster a bicycle is “;a light vehicle having two wheels, one behind the other.”; Such a definition theoretically describes the contraptions [seen in the article], but fails to do justice to the imagination of the Chicago chapter of the National Bicycle Dealers’; Association.
By artfully applying welders’; torches to metal tubing, the chapter’;s members transform ordinary, utilitarian bicycles into traveling monstrosities. By far the most outlandish ideas have come from the Steinlauf family, who produced from their bicycle repair shop most of the oddities [shown in the article]. They are hazardous; generally at least one member of the clan is to be found in the hospital.
Great pictures.
[Via Shadow, looks like Wired has mirrored the photo set.]