Alan writes – “Rob M. from Michigan bought some parts from our store and was nice enough to share the resulting project with us. His son Will has an antique bike on display, it has an old acetylene light on it that hasn’t produced any light for many years. A few well placed LED sure […]
Joe has a good Instructable on hacking together a bike from parts you might find/have/get, he writes – “This is a guide to building up a bike from parts. It should help you get the parts and tools you need to get you pedalling along in no time. It assumes that you have tinkered with […]
Alameda, CA based “Rideable Bicycle Replicas” has an amazing selection of antique replica bicycles, pedicabs, hand-cranked trikes, boneshakers, tricycles, recumbents, surreys, tandems and more. They also sell 1880’s antique bicycle catalog reprints that I cannot help but order… The Old English Roadster is only $189.00, but it’s out stock – darn it [via] – Link. […]
Brass Goggles has a round up (to add to our round up) of more steam powered bicycles including “pete’s steam bike” wow! … – Link. Previous: Steam bicycles – Link. Steam powered motorcycle (photos) – Link. Steam archives on MAKE – Link.
Trebuchet03 writes – “This hack will transform a cheap easily sourced calculator into a versatile counting machine. It can be used as a cheap method to measure distance using a wheel, reed switch and magnet (think bike odometer).” – Link. Clever, it counts by adding +1.
Artist Alexander Laner has a couple neat transportation-playing-art pieces, this motor was slowed down to play a record (33 rpm) mounted to the engine block, and this bicycle plays a record too! [via] – Link. Related: Papercone record player – Link. HOW TO – Copy a vinyl record – Link. Walk that vinyl – Link.
Pete got MAKE 07 and used the article to build is own $50 mountain bike video camera, he writes – “The article explained how to convert a $30 “one time use” digital video camera into a reusable camcorder for less and a couple of bucks in parts. WOW! That’s cool. I already own a couple […]
