the cable over his right leg, the lever under his left foot seems to not be connected to anything, the script near the back wheel is nonsense, and whatever hoses under the back seat are doing is a mystery.
But, stranger looking things were real... so, I'm not positive this is a fake, but I'm pretty sure it is, and still worth a look
The front wheel appears to be spinning, but not the rear.
ReplyDeleteI think if you try to figure out the route of the chain, your suspicions will begin to bear fruit. And maybe I'm seeing it wrong, but the more you look at the steering system, the stranger it becomes, with an off-center fork tube passing through the headlight, unsupported by a top tube, and a spring attached to one side of the handlebar. There's precious little clearance between the handlebar and the rider's torso, but it probably doesn't need much steering input, since it looks as if the brace on the bottom of the fork would prevent it from turning anyway. That might explain why the bottom of the fork appears to be broken, and perhaps helps to explain what horrible mishap amputated the stolid operator's right foot. We must give him credit for his stoical demeanor, though, which seems to have grabbed the attention of the customers in the nearby rathskeller or whatever that place is. This is, after all, if not a collective hallucination, likely the last time they will see this ill-fated machine before its ill fated inventor discovers just how much engineering he has yet to learn.
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