Fast Eddie

hot bike i cant beleive your still posting these things on forums, presenting them as something w/ merit, and claiming to have sold one for over 12 hundred bucks. if it sold at all, why do you still have it? you didnt built a fiberglass bike, you mounted a hideous, spray painted glob of duct tape and resin or epoxy on an existing bike. you arent even painting these things worth a crap. ive seen that yellow bike on the the g-bike forum, how do you mount a heavy battery on a bmx bike using two rubber bungee chords and call that road ready or safe? those bikes are dangerous dude, and even if someone was willing to buy one you shouldnt sell cuz theyre dangerous. those bikes were crap before you poured goop on 'em, and with all the goop theyre bigger piles of crap. your embarrassing yourself man, this is the second or third forum where ive seen your "fairings" being made fun of.

maybe instead of starting from scratch you could do what ive seen other builders do, go to the junk yard and pull the fairings off of motorcycles, bob 'em a bit, and mount 'em to a bicycle. sheesh man, your gonna hurt yourself or someone else with those things.

fast eddie outty

mezza

WOW, That's HAWT!!!! Yes please, put me down for TWO!!!
Following the success of the 'other' bikes I assume that I'll have to join a queue for delivery of such a fine bike. Will the agony be longer than 18 months??

Rollfast

OY! There's room for all me FINE LADIES! There's even an enhanced reception antenny for me XM radio!

YOO ROCK!

hotbike

Hey , thanks. I've never seen that bike before. It looks like it's half alligator and half reindeer . I want to see more like that. But it looks lumpier than my work.

Does this builder have more in this genre?

East Hill

It's a Chinese style dragon .

East Hill

hotbike

That looks good, I like the panniers. But it's a recumbent, so it's really in a different category.

foton

This whole thread is a riot.

Blais

Seriously, I ran out of my house and tipped over a car every time Hotbike posted a response.




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That's my bike on the left there.

hotbike

Look at this, it's a water-tanker bike:

https://www.examiner.com/a-1177028~It...ater__too.html

Blais

Now that's ****ing awesome.

mastershake916

Personally I that there may have been better entries, but they won it since it looked better than everything else.

Vissthew

Seriously.... You added a bunch of fiberglass to a low-end bike. You want to be taken seriously, i guess. Then you don't even take the time to put the cables UNDER all that fiber??? After all that weight, the cables are slapped on the side. There's no way you spend more than 20 minutes on that thing. Then in another picture you spray-painted it green. Come on dude.

BTW, I love that dragon bike. Especially in the back where it wraps around.

hotbike

You are the first person to say the cables should have been routed under the fiberglass. I had thought of it, but I intended to use this bike as a "master copy" , and make molds from it to then make more of them. That's why I said it was a "prototype".
I have considered making a new bike with a fiberglass "I-Beam", instead of a closed "box-beam". Then the sides would be open, and I could use the exposed lower edge of the I-beam to hang batteries on.
So the batteries were the reason. I thought about putting the batteries inside the fiberglass, but I would have to choose between sealing them in, where they can't be changed, or loosing strength in the fiberglass beam.(by having openings with lids.)
The bike pictured was intended as a prototype, and could not be built in mass production exactly as it appears.
Remember the old saying: "Specifications subject to change without notice".

garysol1 

Hotbike...I have a quick personal question for you. How old are you and do you have any engineering back ground? You seem to have some really "interesting" thoughts on design. I am hoping to dive a little deeper into the man behind the machine...

hotbike

That water tanker really is awesome. I had considered the possibility of using Mellisa's design as a water tanker. Since it floats, it must be water-tight. If it's water tight, then it could hold water inside as well as outside.
That's another reason I did NOT put holes in the fiberglass to route the cables inside. There would be water leaking through the holes.

I like the water tanker bike even better than the Chinese Dragon bike. Maybe there are three options: Earth, Wind, and Fire?

hotbike

I am over 40. I studied Mechanical Engineering at the New York Institute of Technology, but left to Join the United States Navy. College was boring compared to the flight deck. In the picture above, I am standing next to the "Five Minute Alert Tomcat". I was constantly moving small model airplanes around on a plexiglass model of the Carrier, inside the Flight Deck Control room.
I earned an Airframers Liscence in the Navy, so I can build and fly my own aircraft.

Fast Eddie

suuuuuuuuwwwwwweeeeeeeeeet jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuussssss!!!!!!!1
tell me you are NOT flying aircraft......plleeeeaaaaase tell me you are NOT flying aircraft that you built yourself, good gawd man, think of the safety of others. you cant even rattle a can any of your "builds" how can you possibley think your gonna fly over ppl's homes???? now your scarin me man
fast eddie outty

dewaday

Anybody else see a striking similarity between Type 9, and Plan 9?

Ed, Ed, is that you honey?

East Hill

Nice to meet you, hotbike .

East Hill

Fast Eddie

and ed wood reference, i love it! did you hear that vamipra died? and betty page is pretty close to leaving us from what i hear.
fast eddie outty

edzo

careful

it's called the Ouija board

Blais

Wow. Nail on the ****ing head.

urban_assault

I just saw and read this thread. I vomited soon afterward.

OK...so much for any more trips to the alt bike forum.

diff_lock2

How is your product better than this?

East Hill

It's all innocent fun, trust me.

East Hill