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July 3, 2007
Bicycle rack from old skis and ski poles
Toxictom writes -
Bicycle parking rack for 5 bikes made from old skis and ski poles. Wood or PVC pipe could be used in place of skis and poles. I just happened to have these available and didn't want to throw them away.Bicycle rack from old skis and ski poles - Link.
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Jul 3, 2007 01:00 AM
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July 2, 2007
Single speed bike project...
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Gpaterson is working on a single speed bicycle from our MAKE weekend project series, he got the bike free from freecycle... Link.
Related:
- Build a Single Speed Bike - Make: Video Podcast - Link.
- Build a Single Speed Bike - Make: PDFcast - Link.
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Jul 2, 2007 06:00 PM
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June 29, 2007
Recycled Pot Rack - made from a bike wheel
Sandor writes -
We built this piece out of an old bike wheel. The wheel came off of GT full suspension bike that I broke. The whole project cost around $15 from HomeDepot. There is one bolt that goes through the hub, and a coupling that links that to a bolt that is half metal threads and half wood threads. That's really about all that it takes. The pots hang off of simple stainless hooks attached to the rim and spokes.Fort House Rehab: Recycled Pot Rack - Link.
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Jun 29, 2007 04:00 AM
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June 25, 2007
Electric bike project
Electric bike project from Bill, and his last name is Craft!
Hi, my name is Bill Craft and I read your blog pretty much on a daily basis. It's good to know that there's so many people out there who are that creative. I live in a very small town in Alberta and I find there's not much to do with my spare time but make things with what I can find around here or order over the net. I made an electric bike to get around here. This is actually my second one, I should have taken pictures of the first but oh well. This one has a range of 20-30 km. and a top speed of 65km/hr. and the weight is about 60 pounds. I'm not sure if thing is actually legal to drive but like I said it's a very small town.The bike itself started as a $150 walmart special. Within 30 minutes of getting it home I had stripped everything off the frame. Then bolted on 2 brushless hub motors rated for 500 watts. Next came drilling some holes through the frame and bolting on some sheet aluminium panels to hold the electronics. There are 2 battery packs( 36volt 8amp nimh cells ), 2 36volt 3 amp charges for them and 2 speed controllers. Both speed controllers are tied to the throttle grip and you can switch between front wheel drive, rear wheel or both. 2/wheel drive is a lot of fun when you go offroad with it. And the side covers and tank where made from scrap pink insulation core then covered with fibreglass cloth and epoxy resin. I was trying for a Thunderbirds look, maybe I need to make wheel disks.
These are a few pics of the build.
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Jun 25, 2007 01:00 PM
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June 15, 2007
Build a Single Speed Bike - Make: Video Podcast
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Make your bike into a single speed hipster bike! This week Dave Neff joins me to take some old broken bikes and mash them up into a new radical ride. Everbody's experience will be different, but we rebuilt the bottom bracket, put new wheels on, chopped and flipped the handlebars, took off one of the front chain rings and put on a single speed bmx-style gear in the back. We did this because we made a bike out of parts found in the trash, but if you've got a working ten speed, you can just strip the derailleur, chop and flip the handlebars and switch out the back gears for a single speed freewheel gear.
Single speed bikes are great for folks who live in a moderately flat city. There are less parts to get stolen and less parts to break.
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Jun 15, 2007 11:00 AM
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Build a Single Speed Bike - Make: PDFcast
This week the Make: PDFcast is a comicbook pdf all about converting your old trashy bike into a snazzy single speed bike. I went a little nuts making it up in Comic Life. There's lots of good tips in this pdf, but honestly, your best bet is to just get some tools and go to town on your bike. It's always more fun to do this with more people. This weekend, get some friends together for a bike hacking party.
Here's a tool list that is pretty comprehensive. Not pictured here is a freewheel removal tool, which you could also just go to a shop and borrow or WD-40. Doh!
Download the pdf here! - Link
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Jun 15, 2007 10:00 AM
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Minibike with a turbine engine
John sent in this fun video of a turbine engine powered minibike, zooooooooom!
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Jun 15, 2007 02:00 AM
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June 13, 2007
Coming Soon: Build a Single Speed Bike Podcast
Looking to fix up your bike for summer? My next podcast will teach you how to make an awesome single speed bike from a few junk bikes! My buddy Dave who messes around with bikes obsessively taught me a lot about bike building and the video is turning out great. I can't wait to release it this Friday! Subscribe in itunes and get it downloaded automatically right when I post it! - Link
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Jun 13, 2007 05:00 PM
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Bicycle wheel table
I really like this bicycle wheel table @ Made in Design, seems like a good (re)make - [via] Link.
More tables:
Knife, fork and spoon table - Link.
HOW TO - Make a Pinball Coffee Table - Link.
Multiprocessor CD-ROM chess table - Link.
LED Dining table - Link.
2500 LED pong table - Link.
HOW TO - Build a tensegrity coffee table - Link.
HOW TO - Make an aquarium coffee table - Link.
Amy Youngs - Digestive table - Link.
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Jun 13, 2007 03:00 AM
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June 12, 2007
LED Bike helmet
Great LED bike helmet project from R.Stern -
Here is how to add safety LEDs to your bike helmet using conductive paint. I was always losing those lights you clip on to your bike, and they're not cheap or good quality.instructables : LED Bike Helmet - Link.
Related:
HOW TO - Make a LED Bike light system - Link.
HOW TO - Make a 40-LED bicycle light - Link.
HOW TO - Build a simple Luxeon LED bike headlight - Link.
Antique bike light LED mod - Link.
HOW TO - Add a LED to an old bicycle headlight... - Link.
DIY bike light - Link.
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Jun 12, 2007 05:00 AM
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Broken bike component sculpture art
Chris writes in with some great bike sculptures! -
I've been making sculptures with broken bicycle components and finally got round to taking photos of them. The sculptures are harder to make than you'd think because they are bolted together using existing holes rather than welded like the stuff you sometimes see in stores. The rest of the site covers how to make emergency fixes to these same components when you're stuck on the trail!Broken Bike Component Sculpture Art - Link.
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Jun 12, 2007 04:00 AM
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June 4, 2007
Japanese Bicycle History Research Club
If you're in to old bikes check out the Japanese Bicycle History Research Club & the intro essay History of the ordinary in Japan by Yukio Ootsu -
Documented information on high wheel bicycles in Japan is extremely scarce. It is quite incomplete and seems quite impossible to prove when the first ordinary appeared in Japan. However it is my life long plan and desire to find out the record. Here are my reports of discoveries at the time being.Japanese Bicycle History Research Club - [via] Link & gallery.Few undated photographs of high wheelers show a proud Japanese participation in the high wheel bicycle era. Actual examples of these bicycles that exist in Japanese museums and a few private collections show a history of both import and domestic blacksmith shop production. The early Ordinaries produced by Japanese blacksmiths locally are apparently at the same step with the world trend of the 1880's.You can tell it form early woodblock prints.
Judging from the information with dates, one can conclude that the high wheel period in Japan had a span of a decade from 1885 to 1895.
Further information may be discovered by bicycle historians of the other parts of the world. It may come, for example, in the form of an old invoice from London, or, San Francisco showing the shipment of an ordinary to Japan. It may say in a ship's cargo manifest. Other sources like export and customs documents from the West could easily help pinpoint date of early high wheel shipments to Japan. These, along with many other documented materials could help significantly to my search.
I appreciate my inclusion in this community of bicycle historians' from all over the world, and, look forward to achieve one unity Bicycle history system some day.
It shall benefit all of us.
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Jun 4, 2007 12:00 PM
Bicycles, Retro |
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Bicycle Forest
After watching this video about a Rhoades Car, I checked out the couch bike, hulabike, treadmill bike, and other projects from the Bicycle Forest blog. It's worth a gander if you're into bikes! While you're there, check out the bikeCAD software for making your own bike to your specs! - Link
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Jun 4, 2007 08:42 AM
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The Bamboo bicycle trailer & DIY bicycle trailers
Here's DIY bamboo bicycle trailer you can email for the free plans... -
MaterialsThe Bamboo bicycle trailer - Link.
You'll need eight lengths of material capable of withstanding bending and compression, tubing or angle iron are ideal. You also need eight "spokes" that are good at taking tension. These could be wire, chain, or steel strip. Exoticists could use Titanium tubes and Kevlar rope. Two wheels from a donor bike are also needed.Basic Layout
Seven tubes are pinned or bound together where they cross to create the basic frame shape that looks like a 6. This structure can distort like a parallelogram, or warp like a sheet of paper.The Revolutionary Bit
With the addition of the eight spokes and the last tube this floppy structure transforms into a stiff light structure reminiscent of a square bicycle wheel. Imagine the square load area as the rim of a wheel, with 8 spokes connecting from its corners to a central hub. Truing these controls how square and flat the trailer frame is. The arrangement can be dished to make it flatter on the load side than the underside. Four spokes stops the structure from parallelograming while the addition of another four and the hub stops the frame warping. The top set of spokes could be replaced by a plywood/metal sheet, that forms a load bed.
Related:
Temporary bicycle trailer - Link.
Collapsible bike trailer has comfortable bunk for camper - Link.
Make a $30 bicycle cargo trailer--200 lb capacity - Link.
Homebuilt bicycle trailer - Link.
Conduit bike trailer - Link.
Homemade bike trailer - Link.
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Jun 4, 2007 06:00 AM
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May 14, 2007
Temporary bicycle trailer
Benno sent in a simple temporary bicycle trailer you can build...
This a Temporary Bicycle Trailer I made, out of a sled, a kick scooter and some junk. It's temporary because it's easy to dismount the sled and the wheels to go sledding or to ride your kick scooter, storing the tiny frame of the trailer anywhere.
Temporary Bicycle Trailer - Link.
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May 14, 2007 07:40 AM
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May 11, 2007
Big loud bike bell
I spent a lot of time in Shanghai, and narrowly avoided getting smooshed a few times with the all the bicycles there, many had bells - but none as ringable as this one spotted in Suzhou.... - [via] Link.
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May 11, 2007 11:00 AM
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May 10, 2007
555 timer - five boro bike tour time lapse
Phil mounted an old digital camera to his handlebars and then created a simple 555-timer based circuit to take pictures every 10 seconds, and put the pictures together for a video... Link.
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May 10, 2007 12:00 PM
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May 8, 2007
Bike handcuffs
When you're a bicycle cop, you don't need a bike lock, cuff'em! - [via] Link.
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May 8, 2007 02:00 AM
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May 7, 2007
Electric Recumbent trike - part II
FrankG is on to part II of the electric recumbent bicycle, here he documents the no load testing of the drive system on the frame, and lots and lots of welding on the frame assembly, mounting the seat, and setting up the front end/steering (twice)... Link.
Previous:
Tricumbent-Hybrid - Link.
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May 7, 2007 04:00 PM
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May 5, 2007
Bicycle chain bowl
This is a really nice bike chain bowl that will would make a good weekend (re)make project - [via] Link.
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May 5, 2007 08:36 AM
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