# The Conference Bike: Dumbest Invention yet (?)

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**Created:** [October 11, 2004, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-conference-bike-dumbest-invention-yet/268552 "2004-10-11T01:23:34Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-conference-bike-dumbest-invention-yet/268552/21 "2004-10-12T02:14:14Z")

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It seems appropriate that on a bike for meetings, no one can actually see where they’re going.

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**Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-conference-bike-dumbest-invention-yet/268552/22 "2004-10-12T02:26:20Z")

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> [@WhyNot](#):
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> I’m thinking how much easier it would be to chaperone a gaggle of children on a park/zoo/city tour if we were all on the same bike. It’s really like a paddle boat for land, no?

Except the seats all face each other, so I don’t think the view would be all that great. I guess it’d work for team-building excercises.

I like this one better:

[http://www.hasebikes.com/ens/worldrecord/](http://www.hasebikes.com/ens/worldrecord/)

It’s 65 trikes coupled together to form a 92-meter long road train. The coupler is a standard accessory they sell - buy two trikes and a coupler, and you can also use them as a tandem trike.

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**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-conference-bike-dumbest-invention-yet/268552/23 "2004-10-12T14:39:24Z")

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> [@davidm](#):
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> I can’t get the movie to play, but to me the still pictures clearly show _three_ wheels. Does the movie show a different bike?

I think it’s the same, uh, bike? trike? quack? What looks like one wheel under the helmsman is really two parallel wheels about 8 inches apart. When the thing rides toward the camera you can see both rear wheels.

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