You know how in the old days, people used to think that the T.Rex prowled the earth in a very upright fashion, with her tail on the ground and head in the air? And in modern times, we believe that this was all wrong. The T.Rex walked with the tail off the ground, essentially level with the head. Right? People point and laugh if you make a drawing of a T.Rex with the tail on the ground and the head in the air.

Well, anyone who has ever been to the ocean and seen a pelican in real life knows that its orientation on the bicycle is completely wrong. In flight, when its weight is supported by its wings, yes, that is probably how it would look. When on the ground, with its weight supported by its feet. NO.

And if you've seen a pelican on the boardwalk interacting with humans or human-made things, you'd believe that a pelican on a bike would have its neck extended vertically, with its head held high. The wings would be on the handlebars.

Speaking of handlebars, both a pelican and a bike are 3-dimensional objects. Pelican beaks are narrow. Much narrower than handlebars. Even hipster fixie handlebars are at least 5x wider than a pelican beak. In a drawing of a pelican riding a bike, the pelican overlays the bike in some spots and the bike overlays the pelican in others.

Anyway, simonw's "pelican on a bike" series is a vector showing progress, but that vector isn't pointing in the right direction.

Yeah