Bicycles

Korean CargoCycles

Korean CargoCycles

Kevin Kelly’s Street Use has these (and other) pics of motorcycles and bikes, used in the Dong Dae Mun Market of Seoul, to circulate heavy loads around town. Says the photographer: These bikes are the grease that make the market smooth, you see them ferrying ridiculously big loads for 500 metres or so to where […]

Tricumbent hybrid

Tricumbent hybrid

FrankG writes in with the latest on his Tricumbent hybrid – This is the third installment of the Electric Recumbent trike project that started back in mid March of this year. On this page there is major reworking of the frame, adding the electronics and drive train with some basic testing. Tricumbent hybrid –Link.

3D “mass customization”

Kendall writes – If I understand correctly, the company has patent-pending some technology that lets anybody design & selling anything through 3D printing into a seamless package that allows anybody with an idea to find a designer (crowdsourcing), design their own products, promote it to the world and let customers buy it without a factory […]

Bike tube rubber bands

Bike tube rubber bands

Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories have a one minute project, bike tube rubber bands – Link. Related: Bicycle dual inner tube system – Link. HOW TO – Bicycle Frame Protection – Link. Inner tube chair seat caning – Link. HOW TO – Make an inner-tube wallet – Link. Life belt from old inner tubes – Link.

Office chair bike

Office chair bike

Woodenbikes writes – A recumbent bike with a very comfy seat. It’s a 35 pount leather executive office chair connected to a 16″ (little girl’s) Princess bike re-welded into a recumbent (recliner bike) and using a piece of another donor bike frame. I built it in honor of “Bike to Work Day”. Office chair bike […]