Beer + Pizza + Music + Bike = Pub on Wheels
Meet Hopworksfiets, a "pub bike" built by Portland, Oregon-based bike builder Metrofiets for Hopworks Urban Brewing (Portland's first eco-brewpub featuring organic handcrafted beers, local ingredients, and a sustainable building). The bike features a metal keg bucket that holds two full-sized kegs and 25 pounds of ice, topped with a wooden bar and two taps. A rack on the rear of the bike holds a stack of pizza boxes, and below the pizza rack is a sound system to blare your favorite party anthems.
Future iterations of the bike will include a second sound system for music played in stereo, and a solar panel cover for the pizza rack that will power the music and a string of LED lights around the base of the bike's bar. The bike made its first public appearance last week at HUB's Biketobeerfest celebration, and the brewery plans to showcase its pub bike at various bike events year round.
--AndreaLeigh
Create your own pub at home with:
- Beer taps and beer tap systems like Heineken's BeerTender
- Home bars and barstools like the bestselling Winsome Wood air lift adjustable stools
- Beer mugs, highball glasses, shot glasses, and coasters (Libbey's Heidelberg beer mug set is a classic)
camera tripod on September 22, 2009 at 09:09 PM
Hey sounds really great and something new.Well its a good idea to go for remote pub services.I am surely gonna enjoy this.Stay connected.
Corporate relocation on September 23, 2009 at 03:27 AM
It was truly funny i like it very nice article.
John S on September 23, 2009 at 12:04 PM
Heh, good luck pedaling that monstrosity.
Patrick S Lasswell on September 23, 2009 at 12:23 PM
Great, just what I need, another drunk bicyclist with another awkward giant bike to dodge. How many weeks before I see this contraption painted white and padlocked to the side of the road as a memorial? Want to take bets the driver listens to music as he pedals? Bicycle + Music = DARWIN!
I wouldn't mind the bicyclists if they took actuarial odd seriously and rode like it in traffic.
It sounds very nice to have three (3!) kinds of mass transit rails, bike paths beyond the dreams of avarice, and a wildly earth-friendly city government...until property taxes come due. There's a reason Portland has a giant and growing unemployment rate: wildly artistic people chasing jobs away!
Jay on September 23, 2009 at 12:45 PM
1 keg of beer weighs 140-170 lbs. All toll the bike probably weights 400+ lbs. Hope he doesn't have any hills to climb....
Lance on September 23, 2009 at 12:50 PM
Fail.
The Random Texan on September 23, 2009 at 01:43 PM
Don't worry, Jay. The guys who built this beast will get some neo-hippie cyclist to hump this monster around town for minimum wage and a sixpack. And since he won't be a full-time employee, no retirement or medical!
So what version upgrade adds the solar-powered pizza oven?
Spatenator on September 23, 2009 at 02:38 PM
From the comments of Senor Pat Lasswell, there must be a lot of sandy vaginas in Portland.
Andrew on September 23, 2009 at 03:09 PM
Get that guy to bike on over to my office at lunch time.
Bring large pizzas and sell a New York sized slice with a beer for 8-10 bucks and I'm there all hour with all of the other white collar drunks I work with.
My boss will be PISSED!!!!!!!
Grey Matter on September 23, 2009 at 03:23 PM
Yea baby.
I'd buy a beer just because
Be serious.
Not.
A boon to business.
Who cares.
Cool.
Where's the super dog guy?
Patrick S Lasswell on September 23, 2009 at 06:30 PM
Spatenator,
Just tired of bicyclists in Portland acting like they own the road while they drive with no attention to traffic, laws, or conditions. Then when they get killed riding without safety equipment, bicyclists blame auto drivers. I'm tired of the guilt games of white painted cycles on the side of the road where some cyclist got hungry, angry, lonely, tired, iPod deaf, chemically altered, or all of the above and died.
I'm tired of cyclists "taking back the streets" that I paid for with my taxes.
I'm tired of cyclists claiming absolute moral authority.
Portland is a great city, but there are a lot of cyclists who think it exists solely for their benefit. As a group, they are intolerant twits who share the road badly and act like arrogant nobility to the auto drivers peasantry. They are doing their best to discover why there is no aristocracy in the United States.
Steve Skubinna on September 23, 2009 at 07:58 PM
Funny you should mention "arrogant," Patrick. Or are you being ironic?
Lighten up, Francis. If this is what you find to get pissed off at, your life is pretty damn good right now.
holidays in Greece on October 10, 2009 at 02:26 AM
Hi..
I wouldn't mind the bicyclists if they took actuarial odd seriously and rode like it in traffic.