The Monty Python Coconut Horse Sound-Effect for Your Bike

It could be the practicality, the enormous equine price-tag, or the poop. Whatever the reason is, the bike has replaced the horse as our trusty steeds.

But while the streets may smell better, they lack that wonderful CLOMP-CLOMP-CLOMP—unless you live near Central Park. Of course, for every non-existent problem there's an ingenious solution that blows our minds, and Trotify is that solution.

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Once you nab a coconut and set up Trotify on your front brake mount—just like a reflector—you're good to go. 

A small wheel rubs against your tire and claps the coconuts, giving your bike the missing ingredient.

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Of course, some people might heckle your coconut solution. This video shows you how to deal with it.


Ethan Wolff-Mann is an editor at Supercompressor. Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl was his first rated R movie. Follow him on Twitter @ewolffmann.