Mom's working on a sewing machine in the center of this multi-person bicycle.
Charles Steinlauf and his Chicago family were known in the Windy City from the 1930s through the 1960s for creating and demonstrating outrageous freak bikes that somehow worked. The vehicle pictured above was known as the “Goofybike,” and it was probably the oddest of the clan’s many hand-built bicycles. Read about Charles Steinlauf’s wheeled wonders in a 1947 Chicago Daily Tribune article and watch the family take a wild ride in a 1939 newsreel.
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