Vikycle
It’s ridiculous. It’s anachronistic. It’s exceptionally spiky. And yet, they just pulled the Vikycle out of a new archeological dig in Norway. It’s been tentatively dated as being from the 9th Century AD, and everything about it looks about right. Except for the fact that it’s, well, a bicycle.
But it’s a Viking bicycle. You can best imagine it as a two-wheeled Hot Wheels where the rider sat in the seat over the back wheel and used wooden grips to turn the front wheel (both of which were exceptionally wide and sturdy. The two wheels also sported iron spikes on both hubs; similar, but longer spikes were mounted on the Vikycle’s front. Steering was by a fixed crosspole, and the archeologists who discovered this artifact actually reported officially that it felt like the Vikycle literally sneered at the concept of brakes.