Some of you might have seen this before, but it’s new to me and just popped up in my Facebook feed.

Charles B. Tripp, the armless man and Eli Bowen, the legless man, riding a tandem. ca. 1890s. While the pair posed for promotional photographs one of them spotted a tandem bicycle. In no time at all the two gents not only mounted the bicycle-built-for-two, but rode off together laughing as boys would. The photographer quickly snapped the pair mid-ride and the resulting surreal photograph still draws perplexed smiles.

Would make for a great conversation with plod after being pulled over cycling home form the pub.

”You’re legless!”

”Yeah, but don’t worry officer, we’re ‘armless.”