Like to Eat Sausages While Cycling? Then This Bike Grill's for You

Want to know how to instantly become the most popular person in your 'hood, especially among large, sweaty men? Fire up this portable grill on the back of your bicycle, and watch everybody come running like you're the ice-cream man (if the ice-cream man had a side trade in savory, grease-dripping goodies).

The "Backbrat" is the ambrosial invention of Mathias Hintermann, a Los Angeles-area product designer who grew up in the fertile cervelat fields of Switzerland. One day, Hintermann was considering two facets of modern urban culture – more and more young people are cycling in groups, and groups sure do love outdoor grilling – when the meat gods slapped him upside the face with a bolt of fat-marbled genius: Why not combine these two things into a grill for a bike?