A new bike roundup post
It's been forever since I did a bike roundup post from reddit... but I've been saving links this entire time! Basically a calendar year!! Here's some of the ones I've saved!
- An incredible mountain bike with a lizard skin pattern on it. Love this! Please ignore the xbiking community discourse used to frame this image!!
- An absolutely dire frankenbike with extremely wide handlebars and a pedal system which requires the rider to perform a bizarre "bunnyhopping" motion with their ass way the hell up in the air above the bike. This is a death machine.
- A 3D-printed holster for attaching a whole stack of uncrustables to your bike fork. I love how functional this is!!
- This poster says that they have added a fairing to their bike. It is a piece of bent plastic attached to wooden boards. I have no idea what's going on here but I love it.
- I have no idea what this is, but this fucked up minivelo has a perplexing seat and a fantastic frame shape.
- This post from the German DIYGore subreddit depicts a bike which requires the rider to brake using a one-sided handlebar arm sprouting out from behind their ass. Incredible. Big brained stuff, this.
- Good DIY instead of bad - a handmade cargo bike with a large, low front rack made out of pipes welded to a mountain bike frame. Reminds me of the stuff Omnium is making now. If I ever got a cargo bike I think I'd be looking at something like this.
- This poster's custom frame bag is really fantastic.
- Photos of a custom bike meetup from Buenos Aires. A lot of lowrider bikes here. Great photoshoot of some truly weird frames!
- I am a truly basic bike enjoyer and I love all the clown ass 90s throwback neon bikes. This is an extremely basic, but good one - great work matching the frame to the seat.
- The tiniest fucking minivelo I have ever seen. This photo from the comments shows what it looks like when an adult rides it. What the hell!
- A "Cavallo" style bike, which requires the rider to move their entire body to move the bike, in a kind of bunny-hop motion.Wikipedia here. You can find a video here.
- This photo is not very good, but the art piece it depicts is really incredible. In 1997, artist Simon Starling made an Eames chair out of a Marin Sausalito bike, and then made a Marin Sausalito out of the metal from an Eames chair. The photo appears to be taken from this short article by Starling himself on the Tate Modern website.
- This poster keeps putting incredibly gigantic motors on incredibly tiny, old minivelos. Here's a build log of their second bike - an ebike built on a 1960s folding frame. This is such a weird, special person - they are making incredibly odd bikes but they love them, they are making exactly what they want, and they're so pleased with their work that it's heartwarming. As one commenter says:
dude there's people here obviously making fun of your mcgyvered-a-bit-methy ebike but I just want to let you know that this. THIS, is what I hope to be/do someday. I have so many projects on 5,10,15% that I just leave alone and forget forever, reading that you might learn welding just for that made me cry thinking of how worthless I am. I admire you and hope to be like you man.