mountaindave 

Not my original idea, but a classic way to repurpose a cracked crank arm.

JoeTBM 

But......what for.... a square nut wrench? .....a bottle opener?

mountaindave 

Bingo. Might be hard to see the little tooth remaining on the left side, but it’s there.

curbtender

Stronglight fir your Coors light?

curbtender

Gives chain ring a new meaning...

mountaindave 

That's a sweet VW Bus, too!!

Soody

Bartape on my old car

velojym

I've used an old bike wheel to demonstrate gyroscopic precession to flight school students.

Pompiere

I acquired about 15 NOS coaster brake arms in a box from an estate sale, so I made a couple of these openers.


New Departure bottle opener

thumpism 

Alfa! You should post some pix here.
https://advrider.com/f/threads/itali...italy.1286723/

mountaindave 

Have you heard about Billy’s Bicycle Triumphs? A must “listen” as read by the Bike Karma’s wife: https://bikekarma.podbean.com/e/bk-e...cycle-triumph/

mountaindave 

As an owner of a ‘68 Bug and ‘86 Vanagon, I can identify! But the same could be said for many of our C/V projects.

Jeff Wills

Same here. I had a 1961 VW double-cab pickup. Fun to work on- simpler than many bicycles. I think I'll stick to fillet-brazed Schwinns now.

thumpism 

Do tools count in this thread? Replacing a regulator in my air compressor I was able to get the old one off with an adjustable wrench but needed a thin one to install the new piece. First thought was my VAR wrenches but they were too small. Park HCW-7 30mm to the rescue. Works now.

canopus 

Saw this late. and I don't have a picture of it... and most would be scared crapless and complain endlessly about how I risked... yada yada yada... so if you are offended, just keep it to yourself, no one died doing this...

So back in the old days after I graduated I was packing up my gas guzzling, lifted '78 Blazer to move to Phoenix and go to school there. I was doing it straight shot from central tx. The blazer was carbureted and drove nice but I really wanted a cruise control to give my foot a brake during the 22 hour trip. So I did what any bike mechanic would do when going to auto mechanic school. Made my own.
I found a stem shifter, bolted it to my manual tranny stick shifter, replaced the lever with Campagnolo friction shifter, ran the cable through the firewall and hooked it up to the Holley carb throttle. I had to trim the shifter on the hills.. no biggie. And you had to release the shifter to control the gas pedal with your foot through town... but it worked. With a few caveats. You learn why the springs and plastic covering are on all those carb cables to pull the throttle closed the first time the cable wraps around something and sticks it WO or 1/2 throttle and you can't release the gas pedal...but after a few whacks with your foot, it usually came undone from whatever it was wrapped around.

1simplexnut

another key ring is all I have to contribute .
The chair is cool ! Got me thinking.

Gashouse

I use a sawed-off seat tube and clamp from a kids 20" bike as a holder for
the flag on appropriate holidays.

Seat tube flag holder.

non-fixie 

Last week, as I was touring abroad, the main button came off my shorts. Broken. Luckily I usually carry a spare toe strap, having experienced their usefulness before. A zip tie avant la lettre, as it were.

I am confident Alfredo would have smiled at this application. I certainly did.

bwilli88 

I found I had a bunch of flat bars laying around from a bunch of hybrids I changed to risers.

curbtender

Used a tube to get a grip...

10 Wheels

Trunk