I called up Shimano's U.S. headquarters in Irvine, Calif., and convinced the company to let me evaluate this voguish velocipede for Scientific American.
'It takes a lot of luck to get these positions,' says Tammie Deweever, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., a home customer-service agent for LiveOps, Santa Clara, Calif.
" Everyone kept getting squeezed tighter and tighter until we couldn't breathe, " says concert attendee Lucas Naccarati, who was 26, of Arcadia, Calif.