Weird helmet/bike dude

biko

Has anyone else noticed a guy on a strangelooking bike with really small tyres buzzing round the city centre lately? He has a helmet with a rearview mirror on it and kinda looks like this dude http://www.sheldonbrown.com/eagle.html

Dundhoone

ah yes, the guy with the front and rear steering.
weird bike and I cant see that it has any exceptional design improvments on teh standard bicycle!

LegacyUser

He's an inventor from the States over here for a few weeks :rolleyes:

Dundhoone

oh yeah?
is that the best thing he's ever invented?
It works. I 'll give him that. He's hardly going to revolutionise the bicycle world though!

FergusF

The guy is Michael Killian, his website is http://www.sidewaysbike.com/ . There was an article in one of the local papers during the week, possibly yesterday's Advertiser, I think they said he's Irish and is planning to start selling these by Christmas. He was leading the Macnas parade last Sunday and giving spins to whomever wanted one; I saw him on it near the end and he was fairly whizzing along, the bike looked very manoeuverable and good fun.

toiletduck

bedlam wrote:

Ahh so that's who it was. Saw him on O'Connell St in Dublin a few weeks on this. He took off before I was able to interrogate him about it.

yeah i saw him on o'connell street a few times aswell! i didnt know he was going around galway though!

Redhairedguy

Got a picture of him with my camera phone, when he was zipping across the Wolftone bridge.

quite cool!

dwayneburke

post it?