Bicycle Contrails

1. Foreigner1
   April 11th, 2009 at 12:57 pm

   I'm sure that in most overregulated Western countries this gadget will be considered highly illegal - ney, dare I say CRIMINAL!, just like graffity.

   Cute idea! Bit like the trails that ants make vor eachother to food. The more ants go some trail, the stronger the tracks become, the more urgent more ants will follow it. Nice!

2. I C Poo
   April 11th, 2009 at 1:07 pm

   That's Bike Poo. Totally Bicycle excrement, I tell yah!

3. Flux
   April 11th, 2009 at 1:33 pm

   Cyclists are a far more awesome crowd than graffiti taggers...but that still doesn't give them any more right to graffiti. Sorry guys, laws have to apply to everyone.

4. nosaukums
   April 11th, 2009 at 1:34 pm

   Actually it is just chalk, there fore it is not a graffiti/illegal painting.
   Chalk is allowed everywhere. Otherwise, lot of kids in the prison.

5. Viola
   April 11th, 2009 at 2:44 pm

   That's true, nosaukums, but I'm pretty sure that this could cause problems if over-used on, say, city streets where there isn't much room to begin with.

6. Peeves
   April 11th, 2009 at 8:14 pm

   I can't imagine it becoming so popular to be disruptive. It's another thing to buy and restock on..I can't imagine the chalk on that lasting more than a day..unless you can adjust it forward when it wears down. Even then, you'd have to reload it quite often..that's a lot of revolutions.

7. Johnny Cat
   April 11th, 2009 at 10:58 pm

   Yeah, to think chalk would be an issue in PDX is actually hilarious. We're done with it and worry about duct tape.

   Portland rocks.

8. Johnny Cat
   April 11th, 2009 at 10:59 pm

   http://www.portlandonline.com/leonard/index.cfm?a=199634&c=27435

9. snark
   April 12th, 2009 at 1:14 am

   And then it rains.

10. error404
    April 12th, 2009 at 9:57 am

    Actually as a person who funded there way through art school by "screeving" AKA pavement drawing in chalk, I can tell you that in a lot of places pavement drawing is not allowed.

    That is why you see the people with the huge bits of paper taped down to the pavements nowadays. They get into trouble if they don't.

    SO the bike contrail thing is absolutely destined to fall foul of the law.

    Hell in Australia they seem to now want cyclists to have registration plates,insurance,road tax, and pass road worthy testing, so I think the days of carefree cycling are pretty much numbered.

11. Jigore
    April 12th, 2009 at 5:28 pm

    When are we gonna see bidycle chemtrail!!!???!!

12. Frau
    April 13th, 2009 at 11:00 am

    I have an artsy alternative, that should not get you into trouble and will make your bicycle just as fun.
    Send me 30 bucks and I will send you a kit that makes your bicycle sound like a motorbike.

13. Jezebel
    April 13th, 2009 at 3:16 pm

    I think I've spotted this before on Neatorama- With the caption that it seems like a good way to make art.

    If only I could remember where!

    It's supersweet anyhow.

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