If you don’t have a car, you can move a fridge on your bike, apparently. At least you can if you’re this guy.
We're not sure if this was filmed in Brazil, or possibly Russia, but Men’s Health Espana posted a video on its Facebook page today, showing a man hoisting a – clearly heavy – fridge up and onto his shoulders, before mounting a bicycle and riding away along a cobbled street.
They used the caption: “When we recommend combining a weights and cardio workout, we do not exactly refer to this...”
We thought that was impressive. Then we spotted this guy, from last year, and realised fridge carrying man isn’t alone.
Of course every day, around the world, people go about on their bikes balancing improbable heavy, bulky items on their backs.
These aren’t the first blokes we’ve spotted in carrying unusual things on a bike. Remember the man in Brazil who balanced a watermelon atop a gas canister atop his head while cycling?
We've also seen some of the narrowest, seemingly impossible near-misses come out of Russia; thanks, in part, to the fact so many drivers in that country now have dash cams. Remember the time two lorries collided head on, spraying a pair of cyclists with the debris of one obliterated vehicle, yet somehow not knocking either rider off? Or the time a cyclist in Russia walked away after being hit by a careering lorry at a junction, which had just hit a car, before piling into a verge on its side?
A cat is obviously a bit lighter than your average fridge, which can weigh 90-180kg, depending on the age and size of the machine. You can reduce the weight by removing the door before moving it, but then you’d have to go back for the door.
Let’s hope our bike fridge removal men never have to perform an emergency stop.
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My deepest sympathies to the family and friends of Travis Frost. I am incredibly saddened by this story.
(“I was knocked to the ground and unable to move, while the driver got out of the van and started shouting at me about ‘fucking cyclists’)...
It may be legal but is it wise?
No, the police were satisfied with her account of the events (she doesn't look like a typical ram-raider). I'm not entirely sure how or why she was...
Don't know if it's been amended in the hour since you posted this, but there is a link to the website in the second last paragraph, and the...
If you really must, you could at least fold the arms in.
Why does it have lips on the top of its head in the first place?
Not just London - any urban area, IMO. (And Zen and the Art... is one of my favourite books, that I read about one per year - great reference!)
They are rims that would break, though.
is that the FT whose former editor was offered the Légion d’Honneur for his editorship of FTs positive role in the European debate, and on his last...