Bike-borne lunch bag
In this week’s Evil Mad Scientist project, Lenore shows you how to sew a cloth lunch bag that can be carried on the frame of your bike. Bicycle Frame Lunch Bag
Bicycles
DIY Front Wheel Bike Rack
Rob sent us a link to his website where he has a nice DIY front mounted bicycle rack. Apparently he isn’t able to mount a traditional rack on his bike, so he modified one to work on the front. [Thanks Rob] More about making a DIY Front Wheel Bike Rack
Austin Event: Bicycle Film Fest
Via Yellow Bike Project: The International Bicycle Film Fest is finally making it to Austin, September 19 and 20. There will be four screenings of different collections of bike themed cinema (including Tandemonium, a short directed by YBP’s Nathan Wilkes), all showing at Studio 501, on the corner of E. 5th and Brushy Street. Tickets […]
Austin Event: Fancy Bike Art
Who says Italian bikes are just ridiculously expensive? Now they’re ridiculously expensive and funky art: Mellow Johnny’s, named for the nickname of a certain Tour-de-France-winning Austinite who invested in this place, also has a dollar-a-day commuter station; you can learn more about that here. Hope to see you there!
TMT, is the new SMT
TMT, is the new SMT… Mikest writes- “Thread Mountable Technology” I made a bunch of LED beads today after work. I found that a novel way to solder a large number of beads together at once is to use sticky tape and needles to hold the crimps and LEDs in place. Soldering one side first, […]
Bike powered cotton candy
Kai took these photos in southern China in 2006, the sugar is heated with propane but the cotton candy is spun using the bike pedals. ..
Pedal Powered World, #7: Bikes Being More Than Bikes
This is part 7 of an ~8-part series I’m doing on bike-powered devices. If you’ve got a link to another device that should be included or a better-documented version of any of these, comment below or email me and I’ll add it to my last post in the series, summarizing all the interesting pedal-powered projects […]