Right near the spot where I noticed the previous mudguard hack, I spotted this one:
With a roughly cut-out PET bottle taped into the seat stays, I’m not sure that this guy is really trying.
However I’m sure that Dave Moulton will approve of the use of duct tape on this one!
The kids here do something similar for sound effects – they jam a smaller drinks bottle between the rear (knobbly) tyre and the brake mechanism, so that it makes an engine sound when they ride. It’s a variant of clipping a piece of card to the seat stay so that it fouls the spokes to make a motorbike sound that was popular when I was young, so very long ago.
Posted by Karl McCracken (twitter: @KarlOnSea) | 1 April 2009, 7:50 amYou could use this as a theme for a future coffee table book :)
Posted by Dave Moulton | 1 April 2009, 10:01 am“Mudguards of the Northern Suburbs: a comparative pictional journey”
Posted by eccles | 2 April 2009, 12:09 pmHow about “Too cool for tools: The best of Melbourne’s slapdash bike hacks”?
I’m thinking a calendar in the first year or two, and maybe T-shirts and mugs before moving on to the glossy coffee table book.
Posted by Treadly and Me | 2 April 2009, 12:42 pm