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Seen any good ones recently?

This looks like an intereting contraption to ride.
https://madison.craigslist.org/bik/5503349334.html

I rode this on the 2014 MS Ride:

So I just gotta know. Is that ^ a real axe? Like a take a fall and slice yourself open axe? Or better yet, and likely with this style of bike, a go over the handlebars and split your skull open kind of axe
Either way. Awesome ride 8)

The axe handle is real, the axe head is made of cardboard, filled with old socks and spray-bombed to look real - I choose life.  I do hope to get a hold of this badboy again in 6 years and ride it on Ragbrai 50!  It was made by some guys at Trek - I only borrowed it and added the * items below.  Despite the suspention fork - it was blown out, so theres a hidden radiator clamp in there making it a heavy rigid fork.

It does have some excellent features though: 
2x4 construction. 
4x4 seat 'tube' (making it a whopping 6.5" wide at the seat/top 'tube' juncture)
*Wooden Branch for handlebars
*Rotary Shifting (8 speed grip shifter mounted vertically along top 'tube')
*Water Log (aluminum water bottle painted to look like a log, mounted horizontally on top 'tube')
*Valve Stem Cover Bling (made fromteh same branch used for the handlebars)
*Faux Axe

It's even better with some boots, cut-off blue jeans, lumberjack flannel and a hat like I saw you riding it on the MS Ride!  I don't know how you lugged that thing all those miles!

Diaperbiker was worse - blew out my knee on that bad-boy.  Singlespeed with 24" wheels and platforms - all downforce on a tank of a cruiser (~2005 Electra White Betty):

The diaper was at least a kit that kept you cooler I would imagine.  It would have looked awesome with a huge faux rattle (or axe) mounted on the front!

I did sport a pacifier, so that kept me comfortable.