Support road.cc

Like this site? Help us to make it better.

Video: the bubble wrap bike

Take your cut-up bits of cornflake packet in the spokes and shove 'em: this is where it's at...

Making your bike sound like a motorbike has been a staple for generations. Doing it old school requires nothing more than a cornflake box or ice cream tub, some scissors and a peg. And there's off-the-shelf solutions too: remember the Turbospoke?

Anyway, comedy magician Eric Buss has taken things to a whole new level with this invention, the bubble wrap bike. Okay it's an expensive and short-lived way to get your bike to go vroom vroom. But it looks and sounds ace. We want one.

Dave is a founding father of road.cc, having previously worked on Cycling Plus and What Mountain Bike magazines back in the day. He also writes about e-bikes for our sister publication ebiketips. He's won three mountain bike bog snorkelling World Championships, and races at the back of the third cats.

Add new comment

10 comments

Avatar
Posh | 10 years ago
0 likes

Just the ticket for informing other users of your approach on a shared facility. Saves having to ring the bell........Bell? Whats' a bell?  7

Avatar
stealth | 10 years ago
0 likes

You could throw the satnavs away, coz you could retrace your route, UCI might not allow it for racing though, is it a fairing???

Avatar
TeamCC | 10 years ago
0 likes

Great idea, poor execution. Should have gone to Red Bull and get sponsored for a park rider to bust some moves with this. Or maybe the JackAss team.

Avatar
robert_obrien | 10 years ago
0 likes

With an internet full of perfectly good cat pictures why do we have to put up with this frackwit? At the design stage someone should have said "Even if it works, it won't be worth it".

Avatar
Tonnio | 10 years ago
0 likes

Comparing pot holes are we....

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ll=51.3139,-0.000512&spn=0.001392,0...

Mines bigger than yours  13

Avatar
davebinks replied to Tonnio | 10 years ago
0 likes
Tonnio wrote:

Comparing pot holes are we....

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ll=51.3139,-0.000512&spn=0.001392,0...

Mines bigger than yours  13

That's not a Pothole. That's a Landslide!

Avatar
dockhill replied to davebinks | 10 years ago
0 likes
davebinks wrote:
Tonnio wrote:

Comparing pot holes are we....

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ll=51.3139,-0.000512&spn=0.001392,0...

Mines bigger than yours  13

That's not a Pothole. That's a Landslide!

Oh, those potholes on Hesiers have been there for years. They fill them in (badly), the stuff comes out. Rinse, repeat. Turn left after that and go down the hill - you get cars dumped and set alight, idiots dumping a lorry of rubbish - every time we take new club members out, we have to warn them.

Anyway - back on topic - I'd like to see this idea extended - in a group, you could do some good paceline training by requiring every bubble to be popped  3

Although I wouldn't like to do it in a headwind...

Avatar
The Rumpo Kid | 10 years ago
0 likes

If this idiot wants to waste fossil fuel and make a noise, why doesn't he just get himself a Harley-Davidson?

Avatar
pmr | 10 years ago
0 likes

Might get one for my road bike. Could do with it to protect my tyres from the Essex pot holes!

Avatar
blago replied to pmr | 10 years ago
0 likes

Trust me. Essex pot holes are nothing compared to Bucks potholes  21

Latest Comments