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Portland, Oregon is a city filled with enthusiastic bicyclists. When you think of the place, what comes to mind? Bikes, trees, and fair trade coffee, right? It's a hippie mecca!

Which is why it strikes us as a little odd (but, y'know, cute enough that it sort of cancels itself out) that a prankster used a classic video game to liven up the biking lanes. Aren't video games for couch-happy nerds and burnouts, you ask? Not when it's Mario Kart, the universally beloved racing game that has played a crucial role at parties since the beginning of Nintendo 64.

What s/he did was draw the game's "items" (stars, mushrooms, bananas, and the like) onto the bike lanes, giving riders a small taste of what it's like to be an iconic gaming character in a go-kart, hungry for the gold.