odd and oddly familiar cycles from the 1930s-40s

pm wrote:
Enjoy this collection of filmstrips:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdlpJqHxLxk

I see:
a tiny SWB recumbent (does it fold as well?)

That is the size a bicycle should be! I want one.

a regular size SWB recumbent,

Configuration is the same as many current production recumbents.

double and triple tandems,
a mixed recumbent/upright tandem,

The Opus Counterpoint (now Bilenky Viewpoint) and Hase Pino are nothing new.

very large "ultimate wheel" style unicycles,
even odder, some pedal-less wheels strapped one to each leg;
About 2:40 we can see a tandem pulling a trailer, followed by some
kind of tandem sidecar trike, some triples and one quintuple tandem.
In the next clip see an ordinary and a velocipede, and very large-
wheeled and small-wheeled bicycles--some of whom seem to be trying to
ride a plank across a pool without falling in.
At 3:50 there is some kind of organized tandems-pulling-trailers race.
A minute later, tallbikes, featuring a double tallbike, one rider
above the other, with some extra passengers,

Where is Chalo?

followed by someone who
has done Slingshot one better and replaced both the toptube and
downtube with noodles.
The last clip shows a rowbike ca. 1937.

Row-bikes are still being made.

--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
“Mary had a little lamb / And when she saw it sicken /
She shipped it off to Packingtown / And now it’s labeled chicken.”