Gorgeous Wood Bicycles from Masterworks
From lightweight racing bikes to commuters to chopper-esque cruisers, these bikes are a showcase of wooden cycle design.
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How-To: Tune Up Your Bicycle for Summer
Get your trusty two-wheeled steed ready for a season filled with awesome rides with this great video tutorial for tuning up your bicycle for summer!
How-To: Brake Light Backpack for Cyclists
Check out what MAKE alum Becky Stern has been up to over at adafruit, lately.
Pedal Power Your Way to Maker Faire Bay Area
Join over 100 bicyclists on a 20-mile caravan from San Francisco’s Mission District to the San Mateo Fairgrounds on Saturday, May 19th. Art bikes will entertain, a DJ bike will keep the beat, and bicycling to Maker Faire gets you a $5 discount on your ticket!
How-To: Plycycle!
Instructables user LongToe, inspired by design student John Hobson, borrowed tools and techniques from plywood kayak construction to make this beautiful laminated Baltic birch bicycle frame. Best of all, he shows us how.
Centuries of cranks vindicated by human-powered ornithopter flight
Although the Snowbird, made of carbon fiber and balsa wood and with a 105-foot wingspan, could hardly be described as “practical,” to me this seems like a major aviation milestone: Somebody, specifically University of Toronto PhD student Todd Reichert and co-workers, finally did it. All those old black and white “wacky inventor” blooper reels set to goofy music can eat it. [via Toronto Star]
Gelato vending cargo bike mod
Check out this fun gelato vending cargo bike mod from Totcycle.
