But Phnom Penh has its cyclo - a three-wheeled bicycle with the driver perched on high above the rear wheel, and the passengers in a bucket seat slung between the two front wheels.
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To use it you basically straddle a bicycleseat with robotic legs, tie it to your shoes, and then (gingerly) go about your business, uncomfortably demonstrated in a video after the break.
Growing up in the early 1970s I spent my August summer evenings tooling around on my banana seatbicycle and playing outside games such as hide and seek.
Inspired by the traffic that hummed through the intersection outside their Zurich flat, the Freitag brothers designed a courier bag made of old truck tarpaulins, used bicycle inner tubes and car seat belts.