Comments on: Another mudguard hack http://treadly.net/2009/04/01/another-mudguard-hack/ Work is just something I do between bike rides Fri, 04 May 2012 07:22:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Treadly and Me http://treadly.net/2009/04/01/another-mudguard-hack/comment-page-1/#comment-1548 Treadly and Me Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:42:12 +0000 http://treadly.net/2009/04/01/another-mudguard-hack/#comment-1548 <p>How about "Too cool for tools: The best of Melbourne's slapdash bike hacks"?</p> <p>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.</p> How 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.

]]> By: eccles http://treadly.net/2009/04/01/another-mudguard-hack/comment-page-1/#comment-1549 eccles Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:09:33 +0000 http://treadly.net/2009/04/01/another-mudguard-hack/#comment-1549 <p>"Mudguards of the Northern Suburbs: a comparative pictional journey"</p> “Mudguards of the Northern Suburbs: a comparative pictional journey”

]]> By: Dave Moulton http://treadly.net/2009/04/01/another-mudguard-hack/comment-page-1/#comment-1550 Dave Moulton Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:01:19 +0000 http://treadly.net/2009/04/01/another-mudguard-hack/#comment-1550 <p>You could use this as a theme for a future coffee table book :)</p> You could use this as a theme for a future coffee table book :)

]]> By: Karl McCracken (twitter: @KarlOnSea) http://treadly.net/2009/04/01/another-mudguard-hack/comment-page-1/#comment-1551 Karl McCracken (twitter: @KarlOnSea) Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:50:52 +0000 http://treadly.net/2009/04/01/another-mudguard-hack/#comment-1551 <p>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.</p> 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.

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