AUSTIN — Anyone can steer a bicycle in the typical manner, with chrome handlebars hardly worth a second glance.
Then, there are those who take things way too literally. They feel the need to steer a bicycle with a steer, or at least the part of a steer that, with a squint of imagination, sort of looks like handlebars.
These people ride around Austin on funky bikes gripping longhorn steer horns.
There are not yet enough of these longhorn bicycles to make a herd, but a definite ripple of delight tickles those who catch a glimpse.
“Some people take pictures,” said Jon Williams, a master carpenter and contractor whose horn handlebars are so long he can’t ride his bicycle on the sidewalk. “The ladies like it.”
“That’s good steering,” others yell.
