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 […]
John sent in this fun video of a turbine engine powered minibike, zooooooooom!
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
