# Enoden Bicycle Bro A foreign man on a bicycle rode alongside a vintage Enoden train at midnight on August 5, 2021, raising his left arm just as roughly 50 train photographers tried to capture the test run in Fujisawa, Japan. The photographers swarmed him and shouted "die," "move," and "money" on camera, and Japanese Twitter sided with the cyclist. Within days, fan artists on Pixiv and Nico Nico Seiga were redrawing his raised-arm pose and calling him Enoden Jitensha Niki. ## Origin At roughly 10:50 p.m. on August 5, 2021, Enoshima Electric Railway ran a late-night test of its 305 formation, a 300-series car first introduced in 1960 that had just finished a four-year inspection and repaint between Gokurakuji and Fujisawa stations[2]. Around 50 train fans had assembled at the Tatsunokuchi crossroad in Fujisawa City, Kanagawa, a spot where the Enoden runs down a public road[1]. Twitter user @fmk_msfea uploaded a 45-second clip in which a T-shirted foreign man on a bicycle rolled alongside the train with his left arm raised, then was quickly encircled by photographers shouting "どけ" (move), "死ね" (die), and "金だろ" (it's money, right?)[5]. The original tweet gathered over 1,000 likes and 1,300 retweets before being deleted[3]. Catalyst event: the midnight confrontation on August 5. Earliest meme-format emergence: August 6, when @mayamakodomo reposted the deleted clip and it climbed past 13,500 likes and 7,500 retweets inside six days[3]. By 9:30 p.m. that same day, J-Cast reported the video already had more than 16,000 retweets[1]. - **Platform:** Twitter (origin) / Pixiv (fan art spread) - **Creator:** Unknown - **Date:** 2021 ## Overview Enoden Bicycle Bro, known in Japanese as Enoden Jitensha Niki (江ノ電自転車ニキ), is the affectionate nickname that Japanese Twitter gave to Dylan, a Mexican restaurant owner caught on video riding beside an Enoshima Electric Railway train with his left arm raised in a salute[1]. Posts under the hashtags #江ノ電自転車ニキ and #龍の口の騒乱 (The Turmoil at Tatsunokuchi) center on that single arm-raised silhouette, lifted straight from the 45-second confrontation clip and recut over heroic music, pasted into shonen anime panels, or redrawn as original illustrations on Pixiv and Nico Nico Seiga[3]. The tone across fan work is near-uniformly on the cyclist's side and against the surrounding toritetsu (撮り鉄), the subset of train photographers that Japanese users had already been criticizing for occupying public roads. News coverage by Bengo4 pointed out that the one-handed riding violated road traffic law article 70, while the photographers standing in a crosswalk at midnight arguably violated article 76[4]. That symmetry gave the meme its edge: the man was not blameless, but the mob of toritetsu looked much worse, which is why edits portray him as a folk hero gliding past screaming otaku. ## How to Use Edits typically isolate the cyclist's left-arm-raised silhouette against the Enoden train and treat him as the protagonist, with the surrounding photographers framed as the antagonists. Common conventions include recutting the clip over triumphant anime openings, pasting the pose into famous shonen fight panels, or redrawing it as original illustrations tagged #江ノ電自転車ニキ on Pixiv and Twitter[3]. The incident is often referenced in text as "the Reiwa-era Namamugi Incident," a joke comparing it to the 1862 samurai attack on British riders[6]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Enoden Bicycle Bro? Enoden Bicycle Bro, or Enoden Jitensha Niki, is the nickname given to a foreign cyclist filmed riding beside an Enoden train while 50-plus photographers screamed at him on August 5, 2021, in Fujisawa, Japan[1]. ### Where did Enoden Bicycle Bro come from? The clip was first uploaded by Twitter user @fmk_msfea during the Enoden 305 formation test run at Tatsunokuchi crossroad, then popularized when @mayamakodomo reposted the deleted video the next day[3]. ### What does Enoden Bicycle Bro mean? Jitensha means bicycle and Niki is a casual form of Aniki (big brother), so the name translates to Enoden Bicycle Big Bro, used admiringly by Japanese users who sided with the cyclist against the toritetsu mob[3]. ### How do you use Enoden Bicycle Bro? Fans typically redraw or paste the cyclist's raised-left-arm pose from the clip into heroic contexts, posted on Pixiv, Twitter, and Nico Nico Seiga under #江ノ電自転車ニキ[3]. The incident is also invoked as the "Reiwa-era Namamugi Incident"[6]. ### Is Enoden Bicycle Bro still popular? The fan-art hashtags were still being used after the initial August 2021 wave, and the man's shop, Home Taco Bar, gained a lasting bump in business from sympathetic visitors[3]. The event is still cited in Japanese discussions of toritetsu manners[4]. ## References 1. [https://www.j-cast.com/2021/08/06417845.html?p=all]() 2. [https://japan-railway.com/post-22420/]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/enoden-bicycle-bro]() 4. [https://www.bengo4.com/c_23/n_13396/]() 5. [https://x.com/i/status/1423476752450424835]() 6. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namamugi_Incident]() 7. [http://web.archive.org/web/20210805142529/https://twitter.com/fmk_msfea/status/1423282363824427009]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/enoden-bicycle-bro Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library