Sweet bike roadsign wallet
From Kitten Camero.
Bicycles
Bicycle Fetish Day in NYC this Saturday
The City Reliquary in Brooklyn, NY, is throwing a bicycle block party with the Bicycle Fetish Day in Williamsburg: IT’S A BLOCK PARTY FOR YOUR BICYCLE! The Sixth Annual Bicycle Fetish Day takes place on Havemeyer Street between Grand & Hope Sts. “Best of…” Bicycle Contests, “Goldsprints” Stationary Races, Alley Cat Race, Advocacy Groups, Info […]
Maker Faire: Original Scraper Bikes
Maker Faire is everybody’s fair. It doesn’t just belong to the roboticists or the scientists or the artists or the crafters. The magic is that it belongs to everyone who loves making, creating, and sharing. Representing for East Oakland, Calif., at this year’s Maker Faire Bay Area (May 22nd and 23rd at the San Mateo […]
CRAFT Video: Sew an easy bike seat cover
In this edition of the CRAFT Video, I’ll show you how to make a custom fabric bike seat cover. You might make one if your bike seat is in disrepair, needs protection from rain, or, if you’re like me, you want to cover up your nice saddle to deter potential thieves from lifting your seat […]
Alt.Transportation: Customize your bike’s chainring
trialex from Sydney, Australia sent in this interesting article on how to create a customized chainring for your bike. Now, to get some CNC time…
Backpedaling, but in a good way…
MAKE subscriber Steve Hoefer sent us a link to this fascinating piece on retro-direct drives for bikes. Not really sure how practical it is, but the engineering is interesting. And, it’s probably a great way to work different leg muscles. What’s a retro-direct bike? At the beginning of the 20th century, although derailleurs and geared […]
Eric’s motorized bike conversion
MAKE reader Sophie sent us pics and details of a bike her boyfriend Eric converted to a motorized bike. Eric writes of the build: The first part off this project was to restore an old Schwinn Cruiser I found. I stripped it down to the frame, took off all of the old paint, and sprayed […]
