Now that we have your attention, we assure you, we’re joking. Only in Portlandia do people move houses by bike.
Because, hey, it’s faster — “We can go through red lights. It’s much faster.”
And, for the movers, not really work at all. “This is like taking a lunch break. This is like, ‘Oh We’re touring Portland.”
This was last week’s episode – a new one’s coming tonight. Any bike jokes you’d like to add?
You can watch the sketch 15:43 in.
Actually, Bike Moving is a real thing. Portlandia based that skit on a StreetsBlog doc about a 2007 Portaland Bike Move: http://www.streetfilms.org/bike-move/
In fact, I’m bringing my bike trailer to a bike move today in Los Angeles.
Gentle Giant, a moving company in Somerville, MA, actually offers a bicycle-based moving service (as well as the more traditional truck-based service).
http://www.wickedlocal.com/somerville/news/x767707504/Somerville-moving-company-Gentle-Giant-offers-bicycle-delivery#axzz1n2wzPXho