Ross Hanson, of Dunedin, is a master of ''rideable art'' and his latest creation, a mobile ''bar and barber palace'' was a trike towing a shearing stand, complete with barber's chair, bar and television.
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The retired truck driver enters the rally's rideable art section every five years or so and said the creation was ''definitely a one off''. The contraption made it through the gate at the Oturehua rally, but only just, he admits.
''It's taken a month to get it all together and I did have a few teething problems with the steering, but it made it through the gate and that's all it had to do.''
Twenty hours of welding went into the art work, as well as a $100 trike, the roof rack from a van, ''the mag wheels off my son's car, my Dad's 1936 Cooper two stand shearing machine and a few other bits and pieces. I've spent a few bob on it''.
Mr Hanson said he had no trouble dreaming up ideas for the rideable art section and his favourite was one he made a few years ago, which was a stretched bike with bathtub and a shower in the middle. As for this year's effort, it was destined to be ''chopped up'' when he returned home.
''My wife will be pleased to get the garage back for her car.''
