Bikecat

About

Bikecat is the nickname given to KUMA, a cat from Nagoya, Japan who rose to fame after pictures showing him riding around in the basket of his owner's bicycle were posted to Japanese imageboard Futaba Channel.

Origin

Although it is currently unknown when pictures of Bikecat first appeared on Futaba Channel, the earliest mention of him dates back to April 12, 2006 when user Bikecat of allakhazam.com's Final Fantasy XI Online forum posted a series of links to now deleted photographs of Bikecat that had been posted on Imageshack.^[1]

Spread

On November 16, 2006 Flickr user “the boy on his bike” posted an image macro depicting Bikecat sitting at what appears to be a console with the caption reading "This is relevant to my interests". ^[2]

On October 4, 2007 Blogspot user Laruru made a post about Bikecat saying that his owner found him as a kitten, and that his popularity was due to his grumpy expression.^[3] On April 8, 2008 YouTube user RosaRossa uploaded a video about Bikecat entitled とっとこクマゴロー (Tottoko Kumagoro). As of October 6, 2016 the video has over 24,000 views and 24 comments.^[4]

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