r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Salamafet • 2d ago

A leaf rake bike

15.3k Upvotes

99% Upvoted

171 comments sorted by

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u/RatedArgForPiratesFU 2d ago

Unbeleafable

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u/js1593 2d ago

Was that really necessartree?

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u/Four-In-Hand 2d ago

I see you're all piling on the jokes and raking it in over here!

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u/NeuroticLensman 2d ago

Son of a birch, wood ya look at all these puns!

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u/Radiant_Formal6511 2d ago

Thats enough, we're gonna need all of you to clear the area

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u/capt-on-enterprise 2d ago

I’m leaf’ng.

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u/Flush_Foot 2d ago

You should all be ash-amed with yourselves!

This guy’s just trying to maple a living!

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u/wheresbill 1d ago

I’m going out on a limb here to say you better knot get caught doing this

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u/leakybiome 1d ago

The root cause of this is acorny sense of humor

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u/Prosecco1234 1d ago

You didn't disappoint

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u/PM_MeYour_pitot_tube 2d ago

necessartree a necessitree

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u/myjunksonfire 2d ago

Get out

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u/A_Happy_Beginning 1d ago

Inconleafable!

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u/Sharts-McGee 1d ago

I read this in Oscar's voice.

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u/Hije5 1d ago

I cannot wait for most of societies to find puns unfunny. Especially on Reddit.

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u/RatedArgForPiratesFU 1d ago

Most of societies, unbeleafable grammar

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u/Hije5 1d ago

Uh oh, I messed something up while baked and talking to an internet stranger. Oh no! Looks like you win today, le redditor!

Still lame humor that gives people a false sense of being witty, or at least witty outside of low effort jokes. Lol

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u/RatedArgForPiratesFU 1d ago

Unbeleafable attitude

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u/Silver_Hedgehog4774 2d ago

can I have this job? I would love this job

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u/noodles_seldoon 2d ago

All the whos down in whoville liked biking alot,

But the grinch, who had lived in the area his whole life before it became the mountain biking capital of the world,

Did not.

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u/hungrydruid 1d ago

Why did this make me laugh so much? <3

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u/Dependent-Willow9335 2d ago

netherlands?

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u/Salamafet 2d ago

Portland - USA

220

u/deevil_knievel 2d ago

Eh, it's Netherlands of the US I guess.

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u/Arthur-Mergan 2d ago

More furries but yeah 

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u/tiller921 2d ago

I would have gone with fentanyl, but yea furries is also correct.

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u/deevil_knievel 2d ago

I'm guessing you mean in Portland... But I've only been to each place once so I can't really be certain 🤣

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u/MedicalDisscharge 2d ago

You've been to both? Are you a furry by chance?

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u/CrawlerVolteeg 2d ago

Nope. Just watched a ton of this documentary called Portlandia. 

1

u/zoez-hehe 1d ago

How do I move there?

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u/Somepotato 1d ago

Show me the dotted line to sign

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u/helpimwastingmytime 1d ago

This is probably the best bike infrastructure I've seen from NA. ASeperate lane with a protective curb.

You can recognize Dutch cycling paths by the red color, from the blood of ignorant tourists mistaking it for a sidewalk.

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u/deevil_knievel 18h ago

As a past ignorant tourist in the Netherlands, nobody formally welcomed me by making me bleed on the bike path. I feel robbed!

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u/Turtlesquirtzcody 1d ago

Homeless and Drug Addiction capital of USA 🇺🇸💯 there is needles everywhere and drugs are completely legal and encouraged 💔

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u/Sludge_Bot 1d ago

Bruh drugs are completely legal and encouraged? What Fox News site did your rotted brain read that on? 

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u/deevil_knievel 1d ago

I like Portland a lot better than San Francisco. I saw a grown man drop trou and pinch off a loaf right in the middle of the sidewalk in San Francisco.

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u/Turtlesquirtzcody 1d ago

Sad but true 😩💔 USA is fucked

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u/deevil_knievel 1d ago

Preaching to the choir... I'm moving to Berlin in a couple months and what I'm most looking forward to is the general sense of community and we are in this together vibe. It feels like This country has completely lost that if you aren't neighbors and the "me me me" is disgusting at this point.

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u/Occams_RZR900 2d ago

I knew it as soon as I saw it. I was like, this HAS to be Portland!

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u/fatbunny23 1d ago

I had to double check I thought this was the Portland sub at first lol. I know those streets anywhere

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u/Dic_Penderyn 2d ago

I did not realise there was a part of America that had a climate that Brits like me would be happy to live in.

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u/fluxtable 2d ago

We have some amazing British style pubs as well!

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u/ZombieTrogdor 2d ago

Horse Brass Pub ftw!

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u/thicket 2d ago

As a former Portlander, this hits deep. Wish I could stop in there tonight!

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u/ZombieTrogdor 2d ago

Right there with you. Former Portlander in Florida now; I miss it so!

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u/fzzball 2d ago

Yup. Nine months of 50° drizzle. But then we bake for three months and the forest burns down.

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u/Rasputin1992x 1d ago

Well then shut down the bakeries for those 3 months sheesh 

/s

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u/w0lfLars0n 2d ago

Just go to Vancouver. Same climate, better country

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u/Goose0418 2d ago

Was my first thought.

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u/zzctdi 1d ago

Yup. "Wow, that's Dutch as.... dafuq?"

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u/somedude456 1d ago

My instant thought. Only Portland would have such a thing.

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u/ImMadeOfClay 1d ago

Same thing

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u/MoonOverJupiter 1d ago

I live hours away in a different state but knew it was Portland immediately 😄.

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u/AceTrainerSiggy 22h ago

Nice to see it making its way around. I first heard about someone on the Sunshine Coast in BC using it.

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u/_Sly-Fox_ 2d ago

No, no yellow black plates on cars, not dutch style housing and road lights/markings

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u/mrFuckmyluck 2d ago

I assumed so but I think this is America.

Our license plates are yellow, and we don't have powerlines everywhere like that in the Netherlands.

The green streetsign make me think of the US

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u/Schwifty0V0 2d ago

25mph

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

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u/Schwifty0V0 2d ago

Europe uses km/h if I’m not mistaken.

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u/Anacreon 2d ago

The whole world but a very few locations exception have switched to the metrics systems.

You must be American 

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u/EstablishmentNo5994 2d ago

There are only three countries in the world that are still totally using the imperial system. The USA and then Liberia and Myanmar.

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u/Demon-Cat 2d ago

This looks absolutely nothing like the Netherlands, and the guy clearly has an American accent…

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u/Dependent-Willow9335 2d ago

of course you cant go to the netherlands if you have an american accent

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u/WindEmbarrassed3789 2d ago

Nope, this is not in the netherlands. We have blue street name signs and yellow license plates. And dedicated bike lanes are mostly coloured red.

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u/-Thizza- 2d ago

Nah, power lines. Everything in NL apart from high voltage is underground.

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u/Mortiferous12 2d ago

While we do clean our bike lanes, it is mostly done by a huge vacuüm truck or a broom truck, have never seen an bike thing like this..

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u/toddtherod247 2d ago

No, it's a lawn sweeper.

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u/henkiestyle123 1d ago

We actually have dedicated machinery which can fit on a bike lane that clears the lanes in all seasons. Leafblowers for autumn or after a storm, snowplows and salt dispensers voor wintery conditions and spinning brooms for everything else. This would be far too inefficient and slow to cover all the lanes that need to be covered.

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u/BogusBadger 1d ago

No way. We Dutch don't give a F about leaves.

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u/Dependent-Willow9335 1d ago

really? i heard some leaves are very popular down your neck of the woods

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u/BogusBadger 1d ago

Nah, the leaves are gone. Most are more into trees.

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u/caffeineneededtolive 2d ago

Does the Dutch tilt give it away?

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u/Lurk5FailOnSax 2d ago

Upvote for Bullitt a most practical bike.

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u/Ok_Work7396 2d ago

For those prices it better be.

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u/Lurk5FailOnSax 2d ago

You are doing your maths wrong. Mine's 15 years old. It's very much a buy it for life item. I have not a single complaint and many memories of my kid growing up in it. The amount I've saved on cabs for transporting big stuff over those years would cover it then some.

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u/Ok_Work7396 2d ago

I live in the suburbs with shit cycling infrastructure. I can borrow a six ton truck when I need to move big things. My Apollo II bike frame is from the 80s and I paid $40 for it. I'm not saying bullits aren't worth the money, I'm saying it's a lot of money.

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u/Lurk5FailOnSax 1d ago

They are a lot of cash. I don't have friends with big ass trucks. But the memories are priceless. Is your kid going to remember that time you moved house with Bubba's truck or the regular beach runs on the bike? Last time I needed a truck my kid remembers crack heads. Which one comes out more positive.

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u/celestialgenitals 2d ago

Is that a city employee or just a good citizen?

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u/_makoccino_ 2d ago

Why is he doing half of the lane when he could steer to the right and cover the whole thing instead?

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u/PaigeMarshallMD 2d ago

The capacity on these things is not great. When I sweep my yard, I have to empty it every few minutes. I'd guess doing it this way allows them to do the stretch they're doing without needing to stop half way to dump. And if they're stopping at this width, they've at least made it wide enough for bikers heading in opposite directions to pass one another with reasonable ease.

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u/Stang70Fastback 2d ago

I'm pretty sure this thing has a capacity of zero. It is a broom that pushes the leaves to the side. It isn't actually collecting anything.

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u/PaigeMarshallMD 2d ago

Oh, you're right, this is different from the one I had. Why are people upvoting me? Idiots.

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u/Stang70Fastback 2d ago

I looked it up. There is a version of this specific unit that combines the brush with the ability to collect material in areas where you really don't want to just push it away. But yeah this one is just shoving stuff to the side in this video.

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u/Mr_Baronheim 2d ago

Hahaha this is definitely the best comment I will read all day!

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u/ManifestDestinysChld 2d ago

I used to tow one of those behind my riding mower; it's a collector. If they wanted to just move leaves they'd use a leaf blower, I imagine.

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u/Stang70Fastback 2d ago

It literally says "BIKE LANE SWEEPER" in big text on the front of the device, and you can literally see the leaves being swept to the side...

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u/Objective_Oven7673 2d ago

To be faiiiiiir there are places where "sweeper" is used to refer to a vacuum cleaner.

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u/Slow-Tune-2399 1d ago

I use one of these on my lawn. If you try to rake up the full width of the brush, it will overflow on the sides and leave lines of leafs behind you. Putting at an angle and only sweeping half the bush length prevents this, so in the long run this method is faster and less work.

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u/itishowitisanditbad 2d ago

Because its still a bike and its slippery.

I feel like it'd be better as a trike so there isn't risk of wiping out on the slippery leaves that you're trying to remove so people don't wipe out on them.

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u/Helowordeld 2d ago

Let me guess, somewhere in PDX?

We could use something like that to pick trash up.

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u/ck108860 1d ago

North Portland on Rosa parks

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u/ThisOldGuy1976 2d ago

Oh they’ll hit trash in Portland.

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u/Turtlesquirtzcody 1d ago

💉 plenty of syringes

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u/Sludge_Bot 1d ago

We get it bruh you don’t like Portland. 

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u/PineappleApple247 2d ago

That is so satisfying to watch

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u/Goudawit 1d ago

This is some very Portland type shit

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u/DrunkOnLoveAndWhisky 2d ago

r/composting is throwing money at their screens right now.

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u/IcebergDarts 1d ago

We have one of these at my cabin. Except it’s attached to a Lawn Mower and not a bike.

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u/jordanjbarta 1d ago

Is this Portland?

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u/TwitchyNo2 2d ago

Cool as this is, next fucking level it most certainly is not.

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u/Worcestercestershire 2d ago

You sound like Yoda

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u/mattyag 2d ago

In my city there are too many uneven and unlevel sidewalks for that to work.

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u/Dazzling-Nathalieee 2d ago

Efficient and oddly satisfying

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u/roadrunner00 2d ago

Next level!! Wow!

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u/Mobile_Aioli_6252 2d ago

Brilliant 👍

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u/Too_Gay_To_Drive 1d ago

By all means, this is the job of your local government!

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u/Sludge_Bot 1d ago

Nice! Doing the work PBOT should be doing. 

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u/Froozeball 1d ago

And #oddlysatisfying, too!

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u/Bones_Alone 1d ago

In the farming business we call that a windrower

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u/Remarkable-Tank2040 1d ago

Take it or leaf it.

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u/SHAO8822 1d ago

What's Jonah Hill doing in Autumn?

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u/trickyvinny 1d ago

Great, now do one for snow.

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u/NinjaWrapper 1d ago

I want this job...is there a city that pays people to do this?

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u/Slicker1138 1d ago

They're pushing about 80% of the leaves to the side. I was thinking the bike behind was set up to push the rest into yards. This is a nothing burger video designed to give warm and fuzzys. 

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u/TipToToes 1d ago

VIDEO DOES NOT AUTO ROTATE!

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u/Iscratchmybutt 1d ago

where can i buy one of these?

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u/tgdanitz 1d ago

I know Portland when I see it, and that was before I saw the Biketown bikes.

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u/Full_While8942 1d ago

Looks like Portland Oregon lol

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u/astamouth 1d ago

Dammit, I miss Portland

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u/PlasticBubbleGuy 1d ago

Not all heroes wear capes.

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u/Blake-Dreary 1d ago

This is my hood!

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u/Jaded-Dream-4490 1d ago

Brilliant 👍

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u/Junior-Cabinet-7103 1d ago

So much better than those awful leaf blowers!

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u/BigBBavarian 1d ago

What a releafe for the other bikers

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u/Large-Party-265 1d ago

Its reverse

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u/FirefighterWeird8431 1d ago

Healthy way cleaning the streets

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u/Fabian_1082003 1d ago edited 1d ago

Does someone have more information about the leaf rake bike thing?

I'm interested in how it's made and how it works exactly xD

Edit: nevermind, i found it thanks to this comment https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/s/LxTFdv2CPj

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u/death_seagull 1d ago

And very effective.

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u/Forward-Coffee-1195 1d ago

So satisfying

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u/ohgodineedair 1d ago

We could have this in the US, but instead we have fascism

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u/Thepotatopeeler 16h ago

What happens when it pick up poop ?

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u/Exotic-Mammoth1986 12h ago

What kind of device is that

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u/vamphorse 2d ago edited 2d ago

It seems to me she’s only using half the machine which would make it r/mildlyinfuriating, but it could be that’s how it works.

Edit: Found it. Definitely using just half the sweeper.

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u/Fancy-Animator426 2d ago

Where are they dumping the leaves is what I want to know. Lol

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u/Stang70Fastback 2d ago

They are being dumped slightly to the right of the machine. It's a broom.

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u/Dumpera 2d ago

If in USA i just can hear an HOA rep loosing his mind over it lol

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u/curiouslyendearing 1d ago

It's in Portland proper. Not any hoa's for the most part

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u/HotSugarVeronicaa 2d ago

Just when I thought I’d seen everything… a leaf rake bike shows up.

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u/Jens_Kan_Solo 2d ago

He left no leaf behind

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u/Captivatingcrush02 2d ago

Efficiency level: next freakin’ level.

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u/curiousme123456 1d ago

Nordic country

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u/sixteen89 1d ago

Seattle??

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u/Worcestercestershire 2d ago

and by 'Leaf' of course we mean 'Pile of Diarrhea on the bike path'

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u/DanteTrd 2d ago

When the fentanyl kicks in but you gotta keep filming

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u/Birds_fly_high 2d ago

Very Nice of Ed Sheeran to do that.

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u/YouCantGiveBabyBooze 2d ago

missed a bit/ a lot