I'm just back from New Orleans and find myself really eager to get back on the tall bike project that got shoved aside a few months ago. New orleans has a way of inspiring people. Last time I started a tall bike project I decided I didn't just want a tall bike, but something totally original. So I ended up staggering the frames so that the neck tube of the top one was about half way down the top tube of the bottom frame. I got it all working, and then got bored with modifying the handle bars and never finished. Since it was my first project I was really eager to get it put together, so I didn't paint the frames or worry too much about aesthetics. I just wanted to get it rolling. So, when we were down in NO we saw a few tall bikes rolling around and it inspired me to get back on track with finishing this and then making just a regular old tall bike. Here's the problem. I had two frames sitting around waiting to be tall biked. When I got bored with the weird bike project I borrowed a chop saw from my buddy Johnny, chopped the frames into 2 inch pieces, and welded them into a sort of Buddhist design thing. So I'm back on the hunt for some bicycle frames. If anyone has any, I promise to make a bicycle of sorts out of them instead of chopping them up, I promise.
2017-03-24
7 years ago
2 comments:
Gotta see this tallbike.
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You will my new friend, you will. Hey - were you at the July critical mass ride? It seemed like everyones name started with a J.
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