How-To: Upcycled Bike Basket
Turn a metal storage bin into a stylish riding accessory with this upcycled bike basket tutorial!
Drones & Vehicles
Homemade Bike Frame Bags
Amy Qian is planning a long bike ride, so she made some bike frame bags from ripstop nylon to carry the supplies she will need and documented the process on her blog.
Repair Rebel Multitool โ Is Round Better Than Folding?
The Repair Rebel is a 24-feature multitool cast out of solid titanium, with no moving parts, featuring hex heads, a torx head, spoke keys, and screwdrivers.
3D Printing an Aston Martin
Ivan Sentch is 3D-printing a 1961 Aston Martin DB4 on his Solidoodle desktop 3D printer, 4 inches by 4 inches at a time. The Auckland, New Zealand resident is about 72% done printing the body, and he expects to pay a mere $2,000 NZD for the plastic to make the plug โ versus the $12kโ$15k for a CNC-cut foam plug, which is what is normally used in replica car projects.
Bike Basket
Make It Handmade made a really fun bike basket perfect for a summer ride.
Pedal Power: The Quest for the 100 MPH Bicycle
England’s Tom Donhou makes some beautiful hand-built road and mountain bike frames. He got the idea to put his handiwork into action build (and pilot) a bike that could reach 100 miles per hour on the flats. Working in his shop and with England’s Royce he build a rocket of a bike with a monster front chain ring nearly as big as his wheels. !He was inspired by the homebuilt cars roaring across the salt flats of Utah. There are no salt flats in the U.K. so he choose a two-mile WWII-era runway. But his quest didn’t stop there. The short documentary below documents his efforts and those of his collaborators. It’s a great story of ingenuity, daring, and the maker spirit.
Love Art Bikes? Submit Yours for the Bike Fun Fest
Paint Bike Fun is an art project seeking to build the youth bike culture, and on August 17th they’re holding a Bike Fun Fest in Davis. They’re currently inviting people to submit their own art bikes to be displayed at this street party.
