Comments (0) Wooden Bikes
Wooden bicycles can be found all over the world. These handmade bikes are often larger-scale scooters that you sit on. Made with whatever wood can be found, they use small wooden home-made wheels covered with discarded rubber rims. Forward movement depends on the rider pushing with their feet.
Shades of The Flintstones! Quite ingenious designs of push bikes made mostly of wood and recycled materials. Quite an eyeopener…
Wooden Bikes
Wooden bicycles can be found all over the world. These handmade bikes are often larger-scale scooters that you sit on. Made with whatever wood can be found, they use small wooden home-made wheels covered with discarded rubber rims. Forward movement depends on the rider pushing with their feet.
Shades of The Flintstones! Quite ingenious designs of push bikes made mostly of wood and recycled materials. Quite an eyeopener…
Streetsblog » On Potato Omelets and Winter Cycling
A Spanish tortilla, unlike the Mexican version, is essentially a potato omelet. You fry some diced-up onions and potatoes in oil, and then pour in some beaten egg. Flip it over, and voila, you have a tasty, round golden thing to cut into slices and eat.
Interesting take on why folks cycle (and do other things) in one place and not another. Makes a WHOLE lot of sense.
Posted the bit above to assist my memory cause I want to try them. Sounds quite yummy! 😉
Bicycle Design: A bicycle-powered welder
So what do you get when you put a bicycle, a 300 lb steam engine flywheel, a old lathe, and a jack together? These folks made a welder. Kinda sorta. As they say tis about the worst looking weld ever but tis there none the less.
The Sietch Blog » Proving Once Again You Can Do Anything On A Bicycle
Ya gotta pity the wheels and frames. These folks have balance unlike anything I have ever seen. Wild stuff!
Square tubing, bolted together bike trailer frame. Interesting design. Like the square corner reinforcement pieces.
Ktrak: Putting the Mountain in Bike (TreeHugger)
I’m not sure what to say. It looks interesting. Weird but interesting. Kinda makes sense, just don’t get enough snow around here to make it worth while. Wonder how it or something similar would work in mud and muck?
The Sietch Blog » This Is But One Small Scene From My Perfect World
A video of moving via bikes. Cool stuff!
TrekEarth | Belizean Kids Photo
This is an interesting bike cart/carrier. And with a bit of conduit, a conduit bender, an old bicycle, 2 front wheels, and an arc welder I think something like this could be built in less than a day. Gonna have to spend some time collecting the bits together to make one. I could use this for moving just about everything under 250 pounds or so that I now have to use a truck for here on the farm and at no cost other than developing my leg muscles. Looks like time to get off my ass and at it…
The Bicycle Forest :: Homebuilders’ Gallery :: Page 13
The picture below is the third from the top at the link above. Wish there was more information on a lot of the pieces on this site. Interesting design the dude came up with. I’d still go with a larger rear wheel. And am planning on building a cart/carrier type bike but after seeing a couple of other designs I am gonna look at building the whole front carrier section out of conduit and a pair of front wheels. Got the bender and raw material so all I need is time energy.
Interesting idea. I’d have to make a few major changes though.
First I’d remove the 4 small shopping cart wheels and instead add 2 20″ or larger wheels at the balance point of the cart. Then I’d bend the forks out to where they could be bolted or welded to the metal tubes of the cart. The angle of the steering tube of the bike might also need to be changed so that it was straight up and down to allow for better steering control when cornering.
Overall not bad for a first attempt.
Flickr: Photos from Carry Freedom
These good folks have got a pile of bike trailer pix. Lots of good ideas here. Wish there was more information on some of them but better the pix they have than nothing. 😉
Electric Bike: iZip Express Cycle Transforms Weak Legs into Armstrongs – Gizmodo
Interesting piece of hardware. Like the specs, but with the parts they mention I suspect the price will be somewhere over a a thousand and possibly closer to two.
US Secretary of Transportation says Bikes “are not transportation” (TreeHugger)
Stupid statement and attitude, but about normal for this administration. 🙁
Airstream Caravan on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Now THATS a bike trailer!
French bicycle racer, Latourneau pulled an Airstream caravan in 1947 to demonstrate how light it was. We think it also demonstrates how much you can tow on a bicycle trailer.
Photos: The one-of-a-kind wooden bicycle | CNET News.com
One totally cool bike for 2!
Handcrafted Wonder: 1873 Monocycle Replica Is a Mechanical and Engineering Marvel – Gizmodo
Quite an interesting device. Wish there was some more detailed information on it. Would like to know what the brass can is for that is located just to the left of the handle bars in the picture below. Water or oil or what? The artist did a hell of a job on this piece of machine work. Verrrrry nice!
Green Transport Specialist Bans Employees from Bikes (TreeHugger)
Stupidity happens every time you put the accountants and/or the lawyers in charge.
Team Cycad: Bicycle Billboards (TreeHugger)
Seems like a strange way to advertise a product or event to me but what do I know…
Interesting concept and from what I can see cool design/construction of the bike.
Horrible website design, construction and execution. They didn’t even bother to title the main page. When I went to post this on the blog I had to add the “Plywood bike” in place of the “Untitled page” that showed up when using the WordPress add entry link. Pissy little pix with no link to larger versions in the gallery that are just too artsie fartsie to convey any real info. And the tiny pixtelated text on the specs page sucks. I could use the the text larger in my browser to increase the size but after looking at the rest of the site just didn’t bother.
These folks need to get someone that knows what they are doing to build them a real site to show this bike design off.
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