January | 2012 | Ted Sliwinski

Jan 15 2012

Mopeds

Mopeds?!

My friend AJ had a kitted Puch Maxi for a wile, but I never really thought about it… till I blasted around on it!!! I was hooked so he helped me find a moped of my own. He found me a PA50-I for super cheep and I blasted around for a wile, trying to make it fast, but it is a PA50-I which are slowwwwwwwww. So I rode around for a wile till I got moped jacked and never saw it again.

So I needed a new learner bike, and found the perfect one, I snagged a 1977 Moto Gabbiano (V1) for $70 and went to town. Chopped it, kit, pipe, big ass carb, and before you know it this bitch was a bolt-and-go kitted freak, with a 50+mph moped.

Currently this bike is completely striped for the winter with many sweet mods being done to it, frame and drive train. I have moved beyond bolt-and-go and have now started to do a thing called “tuning”… what ever that is.

Jan 12 2012

Bicycles, Fabrication

Now the fun begins!

After some schooling, I moved to Detroit and became a member at OmniCorpDetroit, the cities first Hackerspace. There I get free range to an amazing space, tools and great people to bonce ideas off of. Like, the Frankenbike —-> FrankenTrike!!!

This was made of an Alley Cat Halloween Extravaganza, and I rode it all over the city with my brother (who rode an ordinary). It was ok, but had lots of problems, such as… it fell over… hence the huge training wheels.

So after the race, I striped it and reworked it to be… well, bigger. It transformed into the FrankenTrike, a three wheeled tandem bicycle that is 15ft long and weighs about 175lbs!

This was actually build for the Nain Rouge parade in the Cass Corridor in Detroit. It was a two man power train made to pull a massive boom box that had a massive sound system and live DJ in it as we went down the street! And damn did it work well!

Jan 01 2012

Fabrication

Next…

I got super bored in college so I decided to move on to something more challenging, things I had no idea how to do. My senior thesis was a series of “Ray Guns” that all had many processes of fabrication I had no idea how to do. It was a blast, but now I have tons of sweet Ray Guns sitting in my closet with no home… so the fun is over (for these)…

So, sexy picture time:

( To see more, click the gun!)

Jan 01 2012

Fabrication, Functional Work

Sooooo you do what?

Now that I got rid of my horrible portfolio site and need to fill this blog with some desent content… I should probably do some quick posted of stuff I have done… old stuff… So the first one is: Function work I did in College!

Look a Table!