Creative & clever uses of old parts...
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02-03-23, 07:11 AM
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With all due respect to the things you do with bicycles, I find it hard to get my head around the idea of adding more noise to the world.
My neighbor has wind chimes 30 feet from our bedroom window.
Why?
WHY?
cheers -mathias
With all due respect to the things you do with bicycles, I find it hard to get my head around the idea of adding more noise to the world.
My neighbor has wind chimes 30 feet from our bedroom window.
Why?
WHY?
cheers -mathias
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Cambodia bikes, Bridgestone SRAM 2 speed, 2012 Fuji Stratos...
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02-03-23, 04:53 PM
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Those hub-based toilet roll holders could have benefitted from locking skewers at the beginning of the pandemic.
This one's pretty lame and not photo-worthy - I use an old broken stainless spoke as a skewer to get the marrow out of chicken bones, as a supplement to my cats' food.
This one's pretty lame and not photo-worthy - I use an old broken stainless spoke as a skewer to get the marrow out of chicken bones, as a supplement to my cats' food.
02-03-23, 08:11 PM
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Gold Fever Three days of dirt in Colorado
Pokin' around the Poconos A cold ride around Lake Erie
Dinosaurs in Colorado A mountain bike guide to the Purgatory Canyon dinosaur trackway
Solo Without Pie. The search for pie in the Midwest.
Picking the Scablands. Washington and Oregon, 2005. Pie and spiders on the Columbia River!
Days of Wineless Roads. Bed and Breakfasting along the KATY
Twisting Down the Alley. Misadventures in tornado alley.
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02-03-23, 08:55 PM
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My chair at work.
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If someone tells you that you have enough bicycles and you don't need any more, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
If someone tells you that you have enough bicycles and you don't need any more, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
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02-04-23, 07:49 AM
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^^ gugie's picture above officially puts my mind at ease regarding spreading a frame from 126 mm to 135.
The near chain stay seems to have stayed smooth, the far one looks to maybe start dimpling. That's a lot of width.
cheers -mathias
The near chain stay seems to have stayed smooth, the far one looks to maybe start dimpling. That's a lot of width.
cheers -mathias
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02-04-23, 12:17 PM
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02-04-23, 12:51 PM
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I've made several of those stools from old frames. Here's my son posing with the results (he seems to enjoy creative destruction as much as his dad).
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Here is a chair I own made from an assortment of old 26" and 700C rims. I didn't build it, but I bought it (and a matching end table) at a bike swap in Prescott in the early 2000s.
I do need to re-tape the arm rests...
I do need to re-tape the arm rests...
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02-04-23, 02:49 PM
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Here are some 'tools' that I made from old spokes. The tool on the left I use to open up brake/shifter cable housing after they have been cut. The tool on the right I use to start the nipples when I lace wheels.
02-04-23, 06:08 PM
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Chandelier at the co-op
Rusty Spoke in Phoenix, Arizona.
02-05-23, 01:36 PM
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That looks somewhat like the clock we gave John LaPlante as a retirement gift back in 2012 when he stepped down as founding vice-chair of the NCUTCD Bicycle Technical Committee. Only your daughter's clock is more ornate.
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Just saw this on FB.......
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