Big Guys, Tiny Bikes
It used to be that one only saw full-sized motorcyles roaming the streets of LA. But now, the gods of the ridiculous have smiled upon us and we have a very different phenomenon occurring. You could be sitting at a stop sign or waiting for your kid sister to finish a lesson. Suddenly, there will be a high pitched whine of the sort that scrawny nerd guy in your high school class used to get when he talked about leaf blowers (sure they're annoying and environmentally unsafe, but suck it up already.) The next thing you know, there's a tiny bike zipping by with a guy, like, four times the size of it in the saddle. Apparently, these are known as pocket bikes or minimotos. They are popular in Japan and Europe and have lately been building a following in the U.S. We'd heard some whisperings about them being outlawed in CA for safety reasons, but a Google search came up empty. We hope not. In a world short on hilarity, we need as much as we can get.
posted by kuaptic. @ 9:24 AM
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