Pretty cool carnival type swing ride powered by up to four people pedaling its rotation. Looks like it even has variable gear ratio (notice the little girl pedaling without much effort). Carnie life could definitely be more appealing with these kind of rides. This ride comes out of bike happy Portland.

Sweeeet. Leave it to the Japanese to come up with this (of course). Tokyo’s Kasai rail station now has a robotic bike parking system. Japanese culture seems to really embrace the bicycle for transportation and because of it has the dubious problem of bikes littering the streetscape locked to all manner of objects. Being from the US, I’d more than welcome that kind of problem but it seems the problem is so out of hand there, solutions such as this robotic parking garage are necessary. Check out the robot parker in the video below:

I’ve tossed around this idea before with my buddies but it’s always been more of a joke than a serious thing to try. Well these guys in LA apparently took it serious and rode on the 10 during rush hour. Despite the whole thing being rather reckless…its pretty damn awesome!

Monty Python giving the true deserving glory to the bicycle repair man