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Old 02-02-23, 12:05 PM
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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
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Originally Posted by steine13
@bwilli
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
For Giggles and just before I recycle the bars or take them to a LBS in Phnom Penh. It really takes a lot of wind to move it and make noise.
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Old 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.
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Old 02-03-23, 08:11 PM
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Don't use it as much as I thought...


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can't claim credit for making it, a gift from my daughter
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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.

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Originally Posted by bulgie
Yet another toilet roll holder:


The hub was cracked at a spoke hole, the frame crashed/buckled at the headtube. What else you gonna do?

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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...
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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.

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Chandelier at the co-op


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Originally Posted by Deal4Fuji
can't claim credit for making it, a gift from my daughter
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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