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- haentz, on 10/10/2007, -3/+15Great! Mow an ruin your grass with bike marks in one go.
- Carsonauto, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Digg needs an automatic, incorporated mirror service.
- CraigJ, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5A regular manual push mower would work better, but dugg for the ingenuity nonetheless.
- colin409, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5The rusty bike in the 4th picture down sits about 3 miles from my house. It's outside most days, used as some odd advertising for the machine shop I suppose.
- tutorbell, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4This site is hosted on a bike webserver!
- woogley, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4coral cache (slowly) got it: http://www.treehugger.com.nyud.net:8080/files/2007 ...
- machambi, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5what about the tyre marks ?
- greenwald, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I bet it skims over the grass too fast to cut well, and lacks the top weight bearing down the wheels catch and turn them reliably. Also leaves tire marks in the lawn with skinny bike tires. I am no inventive genius, by why not make a recumbent seating style four wheel leg powered one with wide tires that is geared to turn the push mower style blades fast while moving tires slowly like a riding mower that is light like a bicycle.
- chewbacca77, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3The first warning in their instruction manual would be "Do not run over small children."
- dadood, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Those bike mowers are for pussies. I want a real mans bike mower like this one http://i22.tinypic.com/kdvno7.jpg
- MattB123, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I'm pretty sure children of any size would clog it up.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4? why would you want to get rid of the most efficient machine ever made by man or nature.
- dubloe7, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3they see me rollin'?
- houndeyex, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Getting my neighbors one.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Mod that sucker with a turbo charged V-8.
- sideshowRAHEEM, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Seems like this should have been invented a long time ago.
- hellathatguy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3coo coo ca-cha! coo-coo ca-cha! a coodle doodle doo a coodle doodle doo....has anyone in this family ever even seen a chicken?
- Jun22, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Interesting
- alpinweiss88, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I've been using a manual mower (i.e. no motor) like this for almost 3 years. It only cuts on the forward motion, so you are wasting your energy if you back and forth. It's faster to just make a 2nd pass in the opposite direction.
- mattbatt77, on 10/18/2007, -0/+2one little we, two little we, three
- Carsonauto, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2No mirrors are working.
- adderx99, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2looks like a good excuse to lose a finger.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2usually when using a push mower you go back and forth. just riding along over it once might not work to well.
- Corvidae, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Sorry to disappoint, but the human body has had a very long time to work on efficiency. A difference in food intake would be negligible.
Also, we have an obesity problem in most of the country. A bit of strenuous work would do us good. - Carsonauto, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2What kind of cheap mower do YOU have?
- Gumby_Mac, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Sucks if your foot slips off the pedal into the blades of your mower. (For those with the mower mounted to the forks)
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1it was but i used a moped and a gas mower :D
- colin409, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Dugg for Guiness reference
- Shpox, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You have clearly not mowed a lot of lawn.
- Nougat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Digg.com - Bringing Treehugger.com to it's Knees on a Daily Basis
- raeanin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Its amazing to see how much backwards progress we can accomplish these days with a green mindset. I mean just think about it, modern mowers can mow 1 acre of lawn in about 15 minutes, with 0 human effort, if we just keep working, really hard, we might be able to get that up to 2 hours, and give people heart attacks at the same time! Brilliant!
- apocalypse67, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Cool idea, but my experience with push mowers tells me it would suck in practice. You have to really work those things, just dragging it over the lawn in one pass would probably leave lots of uncut grass. I was hoping it would be a pedal-powered flat rotary blade like a regular mower.
- AnotherBrian, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1A much better solution would be to have the pedals mechanically connected to the blade reel and then geared down to power the wheels.
On another note, I happened across a TV show called Patent Bending. The first episode (rather unsuccessfully) tackled a bicycle lawnmower.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_Bending - mushoo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Nope, some of us prefer to reserve that for funny stuff.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Ride backwards...
- CraigJ, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Yep, been there, done that.
- redsoxmb545, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Or u could just use a push one....
- noahhoward, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Anyone know where to buy the one that attaches to the back of a bike? I don't have the money for a lawn tractor but I need to get 2 acres mowed each week.
- Dokument, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1it was. this is extremely old
- LordSkywalker, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Are people *that* lazy?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1this is truly a religion now
- maliath, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The tire marks are a definitie draw back. However, think of all the fatasses out there that use gas mowers and still have ***** lawns anyway. They might as well hop on one of these.
- phaseblue, on 10/10/2007, -3/+4"Instead of a bicycle [that mows the lawn], what about no kinds of bicycles at all for anybody, anymore? There, are you happy now?"
/deepthoughts - izooM, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1clever lol
- MegaJimmy8, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1LMAO! In 8th grade my best friend and I built the exact opposite of this. We used a gas lawnmower to push a bike. Different gaol and way less green, but the mower and bike were attached the exact same way.
- notbob, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Exhibit F - How to chop off your toes.
- Corvidae, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1It really needs a larger set of tires and blade reel. That would give it the leverage to handle taller grass and not get stuck.
- chronichyjinx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1ahhahahah WET
- notthemama, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Better alternative, ecolawn. If the product and shipping didn't cost over $50 together, I'd buy it now even though it's fall. Rarely ever have to cut the lawn with it as the grass.
I really wish the local stores stocked it. - funnfit, on 08/28/2008, -0/+0I think this is a very inventive way to stay in shape!
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