A bike to sail through the streets for boarding gas guzzling business men's Hummers as they talk about synergy and competitive salaries. Once taken, you might forgo the general burning of the boarded vessel, but can enjoy plundering the business mans hidden stash of stock market secrets for the latest up and coming. Riding away to plunder another victim, the tall bike pirate sails again! 
Salt Lake City Cycling community, you have your mountain bikes, your road bikes, your fixed bikes, your vintage bikes, your tall bikes, your minis and even a swing bike or two. So you can do skids, track stands, ride backwards and ride on your head... now try it on a Penny Farthing. But I have yet to see your Penny Farthing bike. We need at least a dozen of these for Critical Mass.
I lag on the freak bike factor myself owning one 16inch front tire/20inch back tire of freakness and though the spiked helmet love will spread, I believe we need more freak bikes and bike freaks to ride those bikes. Portland is still the pillar for all things freak bicycle, we should use their fine bike community as a template. As always, the best place to start new ideas for events is the slccriticalmass.org forums, and the best place to steal ideas is as previously mentioned - Portland:
http://www.zoobomb.net/minibikewinter/ , http://bikeportland.org/.. and google is your friend.
Top tall bike and penny farthing, our Dropouts.
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