“Kiwi birds don’t fly – they cycle, for 20 months, alone, on a cheap mountain bike, through dangerous countries just to get back home … from London.”
The quote was posted on Kylie Phaup-Stephens’ Face Book wall by a friend part-way through an epic return from her OE which has seen her fend off men trying to break into her tent in Iran, eat out of rubbish bins and stay with the New Zealand Army in Afghanistan.
Handbuilt bicycles, draught beer, pizza and music – chances are that almost everyone has a passion for at least one of these things. Now, Portland, Oregon-based Metrofiets Cargo Bikes has combined all four in an ingenious little vehicle unofficially known as the Beer Bike. The custom-built bicycle, inspired by Dutch cargo bikes, has space for two full-sized pressurized beer kegs, and features 50 feet (15 meters) of cooling coils per keg, an ice tray, an inlaid wooden bar with two beer taps, a rear rack designed for carrying pizza boxes, and a solar-powered custom wooden boom box that mounts like a pannier  … Details & Pictures