BUILDER: Zeus (Zeus)
DIVISION: BRC (BioPsychoKinetic Road Cruiser)
HISTORY: This beast was designed with a simple purpose. To be the world's first two-assed bicycle. However, after about twenty hours of work making this thing, we found out that the gods of physics were not pleased with us on this day. The bike was scrapped for parts, and thrown in the back for 3 months, considered a failure. Then, Hades asked for it to be put back together, and wanted to attempt to ride it. After ten minutes, it was deduced that it could actually be ridden, it was just remarkably difficult to do so.

This bike is actually two bike butts put together by bars. However, the real drawback (or advantage, depending on how tough of a ride you like) is that since the head tube is at a reversed angle, the front does not turn. The middle does, closer to the back than the front. The result of this is that when you turn, the seat leans at a 30 degree angle in the wrong direction. When this happens, the rider's weight on the seat usually buckles the frame to bend more, as the bend just acts weird.

Despite the problems to this bike's ride, it can still be ridden comfortably, assuming that you have the dexterity of a spider monkey. There are a few that can do it. Hades, for example, rode Ass-End for 72 miles once, and then was still able to do another 28 miles on BRC Winter.

Recently, Hades remarked that even this bike was starting to get easy to ride. So Zeus added another level of difficulty. A set of handlebars was welded behind the seat, and another seat, facing behind (?) was added in front of the first set of handlebars. It was then given a fixed gear tire attached to the pedals, so it could be ridden Ass-Frontwards or Ass-Backwards. However, no one has successfully been able to ride the bike ass-backwards. So we'll keep the seat and the handlebars, give the bike a normal back wheel, so it can be ridden once again with gears.

This bike then had a weird situation happen to it. It was stolen. We have no idea how, as no one can ride it, without much practice. We suspect it was thrown in the back of a truck. However, since James (hades) liked it so much, Zeus built another, better version of ass-end, this time with straight crossbars, better brakes, more effective gears, Bearings (the original had none) and a shiney red paint job. He then gave it to James as a gift. James has been riding it regularly ever since. So this is currently in Bath, ME, with him. Hopefully we'll have a picture of the new version soon.