Often times, if the weather is nice in Beijing, I'll take a little stroll to a nearby restaurant for lunch. So it was when I found this bike In an apartment compound near my office.
From the first pic we can see a few things.
1. It is a side-by-side with two driven wheels,so the passenger also pedals.
2. It has two child seats. This is odd as of course, there must be special circumstances for you to have two children in China: Twins, Ethnic minority, etc.
3. It's completely home fabricated, but the base bike seems to be a good old brake rod roadster, possible a FlyingPigeon. I make this assessment based on the black "FP" style seat.
Note the fork trusses and interesting reflector (Not a light). You can also see on the rear wheel that this bike sports a gearhub!
Child seat #1 has a second set of non-operable handlebars.
Child seat #2 has a steering wheel to help keep everyone entertained. Nice touch.
A couple of welded on baskets makes for a convenient "Trunk". This shot also allows you to see the wheel size of the right side "Bike". Looks like it was based off a folding bike.
Ingenuity knows no bounds. I'd love to see this bike in motion.
Dig the rock parking brake in pic 4.
Posted by: BF | June 29, 2009 at 09:53 PM
As they say..Rock on!
Posted by: JS | June 29, 2009 at 10:07 PM
I just wondering how could you find this interesting bicycle, even people live here for so many years couldn't have the chance to see it, good design and useful functions~~
Posted by: yuanbo | July 01, 2009 at 12:58 PM
Ahem.... I believe the correct nomenclature would be.... "Solid ROCK wheel CHOCK"....
Simply a charming, ingenious and utterly pragmatic machine. Perhaps it was featured in China's version of "National Lampoon's Vacation"?
Meanwhile... knowing how effective Rod Brakes can be... especially when WET... I daresay they're brave souls riding that machine. But then... riding there is worlds apart (literally!) than riding in my locale in the Pocono Mountains of PA.
An awesome find, sir! Thanks for sharing... and yes... to have seen it in action would have been GRAND!
Cheers!
Larry "Boneman" Bone - That's a Parallel Tandem, no?
Posted by: Larry Bone | July 08, 2009 at 05:39 PM
hello thank you for the information .
Posted by: divisas forex | February 02, 2010 at 08:05 AM
The chinese people always amaze me with their ingenious artefacts, this one is pretty cool, I wonder how fast they can go with 2 people pedaling.lol
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Haha, very cute "car"! Practical and environment-friendly!
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