A good friend recently asked me to build her the bike of her dreams, and after a long time of hunting down the parts (mostly the rims) it is finally done!
I could not be more happy with the build, it rides great, and looks damn good if I do say so my self. This build also reminded me how much I love building wheels! I decided to do a radial front and two / three cross rear just because I though it would look pretty and it was a fun math challenge… yep, I am that big of a nerd….
Why fall off a real sized tall bike when it hurts so much less to fall off a tiny one?! I started by making a triple tall kids bike with two 16″ frames and a 12″ one, it turned out to be the most fun bike I have! So after that, I wanted a matching one so my girl friend and I could ride silly bikes together.
So then I built a second one out of two old BMX bikes… and it was even MORE fun!!! Now they are done, and I want nothing more than to build tons more! my dream is to have a fleet of these silly bikes so tons of people can take over the city some day!
P.S. me looking fo’ serious…
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!
