Aug 9 2020 - And then there were Bicycle seat back rests!
There is a website dedicated to bicycle seats. There are ones with back rests. There are all kinds of seats - comfort seats, tailbone - coccyx relief seats, sport saddles, new arrivals, seat posts, and so on.The site business is located in Rexford, MT. There are dozens of seats now available. Arthur Garford is credited with inventing the padded bicycle seat in 1892.
The bicycle first came along in 1817. The first verifiable claim for a useable bicycle is Baron Karl von Drais, a civil servant in Germany. He called it the running machine. It was two-wheeled, steerable, and human propelled. The year before had been the Year without a Summer because of the volcanic eruption of Tambora: Crops failed and horses died of starvation. It was a catastrophic year, with no transportation available. The summers came back and the bicycle stayed with us.
I found this joke amongst the top 10 bicycle jokes:
Two nerds are riding along on a tandem bicycle when, suddenly, the one on the front slams on the brakes, gets off, and starts letting air out of the tires.
The one on the back says: "HEY! What are you doing that for?!"
The first nerd says, "My seat was too high and was hurting my butt. I wanted to lower it a bit."
So the one in the back has had enough. He jumps off, loosens his own seat and spins it round to face the other direction.
Now it's the first guy's turn to wonder what's going on. "What are you doing?" he asks his friend.
"Look, mate," says the rider in the back, "if you're going to do stupid stuff like that, I'm going home!!"
This scene comes from last year's train convention - with its airplane in the sky and got out the handy Skylum software.
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