Bicycle Taxidermy - Neatorama

If you're a bicyclist, these are probably either really cool or really disturbing at first glance. Regan Appleton doesn't mow down bicyclists and collect their handlebars as trophies. He memorializes treasured bikes by mounting their handlebars on taxidermy plaques along with engraved epitaphs.

Link -via Inhabitat

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I suppose it depends on your experience of either being a bicyclist, or sharing the road with them... but I have known a few folks (all men) who genuinely mourned the passing (or theft) of their beloved bikes.

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I've seen this live as a kid in Canada but it was bikes only... Wow the cars are pretty spectacular!! Crazy

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Centripetal force, how does it work?

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The fact that it is salvaged wood scares me more than the actions they are performing.

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It does not look that much different from Mumbai's streets

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Now if only I could find the film of the bloke in England who used to ride the wall of death with a lion (yes a real live lion) in the sidecar.

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Couldn't find the sidecar one, but there's this http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=9775

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Dark Roasted Blend had a history of this kind of act, including the lions:

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2009/03/walls-of-death-in-amusement-parks-brief.html

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We need a couple of drivers to ride in the Well of Death while playing chess.

http://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/06/playing-chess-on-a-roller-coaster/

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Here's a wall I remember seeing back in the eighties and it's still touring the UK

http://player.vimeo.com/video/32493819?autoplay=1

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They don't advertise much. They just put out a circular. . . .

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