Here’s my neighbor trying to get our kids bikes on the car last Sunday. It should have been an easy task, but these days kids’ bike frames have gotten a little funky. Gone are the triangle frames that easily slide onto a standard bike rack. In are sloping top tubes and fat frames that mimic aluminum bikes but weight 10 times more.

My good hearted neighbor, who just wanted to buzz the kids to a nearby parking lot where they could ride without worrying about traffic, spent about 20 minutes trying to get four bikes on our four-space bike rack. It was worse than a 3-D puzzle. He had a few choice words for the designers of the bikes.

What’s the point of bikes that don’t fit it on a standard bike rack? Don’t most families transport bikes somewhere — the nearest park or trail — to take the kids for a ride? Shouldn’t this be an easy process and not a complicated head game?

But I guess it’s what looks cool that counts. That’s what sells. Not what makes sense. Go figure.