Surly Xtracycled Karate Monkey with Stokemonkey electric assist–so many kinds of awesome!
Now that I am getting out and about more, I can continue my effort to catalog every unusual bike in San Francisco. There are more interesting hobbies, I’ll admit, but it entertains me (my other hobby is the even more obscure effort to catalog every word that means its own opposite, e.g. sanction).
This bike isn’t a kid-hauler, which is my favorite kind of bicycle by far, but it could have been (update from a more observant friend: yes it is! check out those stoker bars). I was not familiar with the Surly Karate Monkey before I saw this Xtracycle outside a café one weekend morning. But check it out: it’s a Stokemonkeyed Karate Monkey! That’s an awful lot of monkeys on one bike. It must own the hills. I couldn’t tell whether the box was a battery backup, but this bike looks like it gets around. The sticker references a shop in Seattle. You’re a long way from home, monkeys.
Hum of the city 
Good to see you again, Dorie, who writes about bikes.
From Kyoto Japan. Shuichi 🙂
Heeeey! Dorie!
More pictures of wierd bikes, please!
Coming up!
That’s my bike! I have used it to death over the last three years hauling everything from my wife to huge furniture! It was built in Seattle and brought down at my request.
Wonderful! Thanks for writing!