Crazy Bikes – 1939 | The Archivist Presents | #486

Have you got a bicycle? I haven’t, but I might get myself one of these crazy ones.

Crazy ‘bikes’ on show in Chicago. A demonstration of strange bikes. A family bike with mother using her sewing machine as it goes along, the bed-post bike and the elastic bike.

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[Music] bicycles are news when they go 
crazy and it’s clear that some pretty   hard thinking has gone into the invention 
of this lot at Chicago best of the bunch   is the family model with mother mending 
socks and undies as they go along there’s   a bedstead bike there’s a two-way stretch 
and there’s a skyscraper model a picture   which proves that you can make anything 
into a bicycle if you really want to [Music] [Laughter] [Music]