The Red Haired Tattoed Australian Mankini Man
The oddest thing is Mr Mankini is a ginger and as such should be extra careful of how much sun he gets down under. The fact he is not the original or most famous of Australian Mankini men is not shocking, nor is the fact he’s riding what appears to be a Ruckus.
Mankini man flashes around
DANIEL BOURCHIER | November 23rd, 2008 | www.ntnews.com.au
RIDING FREE: The mankini-clad rider was letting most of it hang out as he rode down the Stuart Highway yesterday
A MAN caused a stir on Top End streets yesterday by cruising around on a motorised scooter wearing just a mankini.
The red-headed, tattooed man stopped traffic and turned the heads of many Saturday morning shoppers.
He was wearing a slimming black mankini, shoes and a helmet.
NEWSBREAKER Camden Smith captured this photo of the irreverent motorcyclist at 9.45am yesterday.
Mr Smith was driving along Bagot Rd and came up alongside the man at lights.
“The closer you got, the more it became obvious that he was in the buff,” he said. “His buttocks were hanging over his pocket rocket.”
A 28-year-old Darwin fashion identity, who asked not to be named, saw the man just minutes later in the centre of Darwin.
“He was motoring gleefully through the crowded CBD streets, stopping onlookers in their tracks, with so much flesh on show,” she said.
“He really looked like he was enjoying himself,” the eyewitness said.
“I thought he must have been wearing his mankini to feel comfortable in our hot, wet conditions.
“Luckily he was wearing a bumbag that protected some of his modesty.”
The motorcyclist is not the first brave Territorian to slip into the revealing one-piece made famous by Sacha Baron Cohen’s character Borat.
“Mr Mankini” famously streaked across TIO stadium at the AFL Bulldogs and Fremantle clash in June 2007.
The man, sporting a fetching blue mankini, had the 11,000 strong crowd hooting and screaming as he outran security. The crowd leapt to his defence when he cleared the fence, some by throwing him clothes, others by pinning security guards to the fence so he could escape.