{"id":1946,"date":"2007-09-28T12:48:18","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T06:50:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-09-28T12:50:19","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T06:50:19","slug":"great-minds-think-alike-the-bi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/great-minds-think-alike-the-bi\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Minds Think Alike: the Bicycle Lawnmower!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nOver at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2007\/09\/the_cutting_edg.php\">Treehugger<\/a>, Warren McLaren has rounded up all the examples of this ingenious, indigenous, &#8220;labor-saving&#8221;&#160; invention that he could find.<br \/>\n<br \/>&#160;<br \/>\n<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/bike-mower-1.jpg\" height=\"281\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Bike-Mower-1\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n It is apparent that thousands of people who have to mow the lawn decided there must be an easier way&#160; and had exactly the same idea: Why not hook the mower to a bike? And so the bikemower is born&#160; in a thousand of garages around the country.&#160; Judging from the pictures, they are still in the garages. Most of the pics rounded up by McLaren look as if they were taken at garage sales. I have my doubts that the bike mower is very useful, or easier to use than pushing on your feet.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/dscn3440.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Dscn3440\" \/>&#160; <img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/bike-mower-5.jpg\" height=\"679\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Bike-Mower-5\" \/>&#160;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFor the full set see the Treehuger post above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Treehugger, Warren McLaren has rounded up all the examples of this ingenious, indigenous, &#8220;labor-saving&#8221;&#160; invention that he could find. &#160; It is apparent that thousands of people who have to mow the lawn decided there must be an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/great-minds-think-alike-the-bi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[101,89],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}