Amphibious bike
Not sure how well it works, but from the pictures on Inhabitat, it does appear to at least… float. It’s made from eight plastic water jugs. Wanes attached to the rear spokes provide power. The DIY Floating Water Bike
Bicycles
Bicycle Music Festival in SF
You’re invited to the Bicycle Music Festival this Saturday (tomorrow!) in San Francisco. It’s a mobile community music festival, all day long! More: Xtracycle QuickHitch tutorial and Maker Faire special
Xtended Xtracycle deal for makers
Our friends at Xtracycle have extended their maker special. They lent us some of their Radish bikes during Maker Faire, and they were major eye-catchers. The FreeRadical is a nifty add-on to extend the end of your bike, making more room to haul stuff and passengers. Once you’ve got your bike’s backseat all set up, […]
How-To: Portable tallbike
So you’ve just made a tallbike from two frames, and you have a great time riding it around your neighborhood, but what happens when you want to take it farther away than your pedals can bring you? Instructables user sprocketscientist made a tutorial for a tallbike that comes apart for easy travel. More tallbikes: 18 […]
Super classy bike trailer
From the MAKE Flickr pool Bryce & Naomi uploaded pics of this elegant homebuilt bicycle trailer, “The Edison” – perfect for those leisurely days you’d rather leave the motorcar at home – It’s made from 3/8 in birch luan on an Aluminum base frame. The wood frame was then fiberglassed to weather proof it. Copper […]
Make: Projects – Pedal-powered phone charger
This winter, my dad and I took up the project of building a simple pedal-powered cell phone charger to mount on my bicycle. Cell phones are small potatoes in the big picture of energy consumption, but the apparatus we built could be a very practical concept for those on self-supported bike tours or those living […]
WoodenBikes at Maker Faire
During Maker Faire, people of all stripes were riding these crazy junkcycles around. I took a moment to speak with Tom Kabat, their creator on Sunday. Tom and his bikes were a mainstay of Bike Town, an area of Maker Faire that featured many bike builders and their projects. A former serious cyclist who still […]
