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A clown bicycle or clown bike is a bicycle designed for comedic visual effect or stunt riding, typically by circus clowns. It is sometimes called a circus bike.
The Clown House
a house in northeast Portland, Oregon, that is home to many clown bikes. {{Clowns Circus equipment Clowning Cycle types Art vehicles Modified vehicles
A clown bicycle or clown bike is a bicycle designed for comedic visual effect or stunt riding, typically by circus clowns. It is sometimes called a circus bike.
Types of clown bike
*'' BMX bicycle'' *''bucking bike'' (with one or more eccentric wheels); *''Come-apart bike'', (essentially a unicycle, plus a set of handlebars attached to forks and a wheel). *''small wheel bicycle
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'' (often called an ''upside down bike'', constructed so that the pedals, seat and handlebars are all higher than normal)
*''tiny bicycle''
Some clown bikes are also fixed gear, with no freewheeling, so that they may be pedaled either forward or backwards. Some are built very small but are otherwise relatively normal. Pedaling an extremely small bicycle is very difficult and usually much slower than walking, so there is little practical advantage to having a bicycle that will fit in one's purse or pocket.
See also
* List of bicycle types * Art bike *Clown car
A clown car is a prop in a circus clown routine, which involves an implausibly large number of clowns emerging from a very small car. The first performance of this routine was in the Cole Bros. Circus during the 1950s. The effect is produced by ...
External links
The Clown House
a house in northeast Portland, Oregon, that is home to many clown bikes. {{Clowns Circus equipment Clowning Cycle types Art vehicles Modified vehicles