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\nImages: Lynsey Hunter<\/em><\/a>, Bike Magazine<\/em><\/p>\n

It might be that I’m a father of three, trying to work out how to have a fun, shared experience with my little ones. But dang it if I’m not in the mood for making the absurd purchase of a monkey bike. Not sure about what exactly it is that has these little bundles of fun burning in my brain.<\/p>\n

Honda have been the best known for producing these miniatures – and the contemporary Motra<\/a> is one of the derivatives of this all to rare form – and we’ve lusted after the paratroopers’ Welbike<\/a> here before now.<\/p>\n

But you can’t beat the mid-seventies manifestation of these things. They bring to mind the second wave of skateboarding, California, cow-horned custom bicycles and a life of endless easy living.<\/p>\n

A school friend of mine’s dad made the smart move of bringing one into his family fold – thereby cementing the kid’s adoration of him for eternity.<\/p>\n

Perhaps I want to be a dad like that, or perhaps just a kid again.<\/p>\n

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a yearning for tiny motorcycles?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[332,110],"tags":[131],"class_list":["post-29802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bikes","category-blog","tag-honda"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nMonkey Bikes - Little bundles of fun<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Monkey bike love at Influx, the mid-seventies manifestation of the monkey bikes custom coolness is one we will always remember.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/little-monkeys\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Monkey Bikes - 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