Jason Shelfer, the man who brought you the “drum-tar” (a guitar merged with a drum) has now combined an old bicycle with a shopping cart. The idea was that he could ride from his house to Aldi, shop for groceries, checkout, and come back home without ever getting off the bike. That is assuming they don’t mind someone riding a bike in the store.

It was a brilliant idea in theory but still has a few kinks to work out. The main issue being that in it’s current form, the cartcycle can’t turn without falling over. Which is to be expected on a bike that has 5 wheels, 2 of which are fixed in the center and the two leading wheels twirl around like drunken sailors with complete disregard to which direction the ship is headed.

I can’t wait for the steering to be perfected so I can document the cartcycle being used to it’s full potential and I am fairly confident that Jason will soon become well known around Carthage as “that guy that rides a shopping cart”.

PS – At Jason’s request I will conduct a poll on whether or not my readers would like more posts about his strange contraptions and/or activities in the future. Since I am too lazy to install a poll plugin tonight, please just leave comments to indicate your preference!