After a string of serious posts (most recently one about taxes), I’ve decided to do a fun post. It’s also a bike post, which I haven’t done in a while.

Many of you may have seen a tall bike on the streets before. Someone on a ridiculously tall bike with his body several feet from the ground might ride by you, stopping at a red light between parked cars. “Oh my!” you think to yourself, and a deluge of questions fills your mind.

How does he get on? How does he get off? How does he stop without toppling over? Where did he get that thing? How does he balance at all?

I must admit that I don’t know all the answers to these questions, and I’ve never ridden a tall bike before. But the answers are all out there! There’s tall bike online communities, tall bike tours, and even guides to making tall bikes (it usually involves putting parts from one bike on top of another bike). An example: http://www.instructables.com/id/Building-a-better-Tall-Bike

Tall Bike

So that is one really tall tall bike. Most aren’t that tall, and perhaps at a certain height, it becomes unsafe. But what I find the most interesting is tall-bike-jousting. I’d like to try it sometime.