AS THE SUN sets on a warm night in Indy, the HandleBar cruises 7 miles per hour down Capitol Avenue. The 16-person bicycle pub may look clunky, but its passengers are the epitome of cool.
Justin Timberlake is singing “SexyBack.” Lena Peters, 23, a native Russian, plays bartender and dances in her red shirt with peekaboo holes, long hair flying. Forget pedaling. Passengers groove in their seats, loud, buzzed, happy to have the breeze wash over them. Passing cars honk their approval, their envy.
A white van pulls up at a stoplight. In an act of spontaneous benevolence, a pedaling partier hands over a beer. That’s when HandleBar driver Nick Domogalik, the only one sober, steps in to be the adult.
“No, you can’t give him a beer,” he calls…