Why do I refer to the bike as a "lamplighter"? In the old days lamp lighting was a job. A lamp lighter went around in the evening usually with a ladder and lit up each gas powered lamp post in turn.

Some of the people doing this job had specialist bikes made that were very tall. Then they could just cycle between each one, hold on (or lean) and light them without needing the ladder.

The design here is classic lamplighter bike style, albeit scaled down. A real lamplighter would be over 7 foot.

@ruari i find even looking at this a terrifying miracle.
How in the world do you get off๐Ÿ˜ฑ
@mavu I stand on one pedal, swing my other leg over to the same side and jump down.
@ruari terrifying ๐Ÿ˜ฑ๐Ÿ™‚
@mavu It's not nearly as bad as you might imagine to be honest. ๐Ÿ˜‰

@mavu this however might be a bit terrifying

https://mastodon.social/@radxberg/114612745682753329

@ruari nope nope nope nopeitnope. nein. non. nie. net. ne.
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@mavu I'd be happy to try it. ๐Ÿ˜†

My wife would never let me though. ๐Ÿ˜ญ

@ruari I'm pretty confident that even birds would politely decline to try that thing, and *they can actually fly* !