Southside Battletrain is quintessential May Day in south Minneapolis.
A three-seat Ferris wheel made entirely of scrap metal.
A playground on a vehicle originally designed to be powered by a human hamster wheel. It shoots up flames.
A bicycle-powered ice and fish shack with moving dinosaur parts.
“I always think of Southside Battletrain as a group of people that like to show the absurdity of life through by doing weird things,” said Max Ritter, who joined about 15 years ago when he was in welding school and a friend advised him to check it out…