Now that's what you call a special delivery! Medical worker drops off samples on 'sperm bike'

A young medical worker is collecting and dropping off samples of sperm - on a bicycle shaped like one.



Alan Dowden uses Seattle Sperm Bank's special bicycle to pick up samples from men's homes and take them on to fertility clinics in First Hill.



The 'sperm bike' weighs 120 pounds - when fully loaded - and is 10 foot long. Its bulbous container is filled with liquid nitrogen to cool the 25 to 30 vials it can transport.

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Tailgating: Medical worker Alan Dowden speeds by on the sperm bike

Loading up: Mr Dowden places a cooling container into Seattle Sperm Bank's eco-friendly mode of transport

Fine repoduction: The sperm delivery boy uses the second bike built by the European Sperm Bank

It has a small motor and is designed to encourage men to make their own donations.



The eco-friendly mode of transport was first used by Seattle Sperm Bank's sister company, the European Sperm Bank, in Copenhagen.

The Sperm Bullitt was constructed by the (pro)creatives at Danish company 10 Tons.

Life force: Mr Dowden transports the vials between men's homes, the sperm bank and fertility clinics

The firm specialises in zoological and botanical models as well as paleontologic reconstructions, including full-size whales and dinosaurs.

It has now reproduced the original bicycle for the reproduction centre in Seattle.



The European Sperm Bank's CEO, Peter Bower, said: 'The first idea was how we could deliver to the fertility clinics in a C02-friendly way.



'Shortly afterwards followed the idea of a custom-designed bike with a cooling system.



'Now we can cycle around the city on our sperm cell bike.'

Seattle Sperm Bank manager Gary Olsem said the bike was a good marketing tool.

'It's getting a lot of looks,' he told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.



'People are stopping. They don't quite understand what's going on.

'You put a giant sperm on a bike, and you're going to get some attention.'



The Seattle Sperm Bank pays $60 for each viable sample.

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