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  • March 12, 2010 at 9:12 am #633725
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    OldRidgeback

    A kid I knew once made his
    A kid I knew once made his own super extended forks for his bike. It looked interesting but creaked when you rode it and I never felt safe on that thing. I remember seeing images of a bike built from plywood – interesting material with a high strength/low weight and it was used to good effect in the WWII DH Mosquito bomber/fighter bomber.

    March 11, 2010 at 6:45 pm #633723
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    Fringe

    a friend of mine once made a
    a friend of mine once made a bike out of old tubing, but because he didnt have a welder he hammered the tube ends flat, drilled holes and then bolted the whole shebang together.. it rode okay, but i never felt that ‘safe’ on it..

    March 11, 2010 at 5:20 pm #633721
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    Simon_MacMichael

    Weird and wonderful home-made
    Weird and wonderful home-made bikes are all well and good, but its not like anyone’s ever going to set the World Hour record on one, is it? 😉

    March 11, 2010 at 5:12 pm #633719
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    Fringe

    yeah what happened to
    yeah what happened to that..at one point i thought they were going to start selling them.. i would have got one for sure, looked like fun, except in the rain 😀

    March 11, 2010 at 3:46 pm #633717
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    Tony Farrelly

    the wooden bike is excellent
    the wooden bike is excellent – a kid at a British school made something similar with a wooden sprocket and chain, I remember trying to get pictures of it when I worked somewhere else 🙂

    If memory serves someone also made a ‘functional’ cardboard bike too a few years back

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