Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - DIY thread

Yeah, self explanitory. If you made any DIY stuff for bikes, doesent even have to be for bikes, just bike related, post it here.

I make pretty top tube cozies when I'm bored:
http://static.flickr.com/95/251351638_8586c38834.jpg
http://static.flickr.com/141/323210567_0b8e57f5e8.jpg

..and I've made a brake booster for U brakes:
http://static.flickr.com/48/105644415_8c6abcb48c.jpg

..and pedal grind plates:
http://static.flickr.com/31/53086688_161c3b0f1c.jpg

Sometimes I even make friends.

http://static.flickr.com/49/131727359_72fc380667_o.jpg

****. Yes.

too many to list

I built a Bocce Gallery in my back yard for watching bocce matches. It's about 10" high, has a shed roof made of 1x6, a bench seat in the shade and I'll be putting in windows, a barn-style sliding door and some insect screening to keep the bugs out. If I end up spending time out there, I'll run some power to it and install a sound system. I was kind of proud/insulted when my friends came over after it was done and were all, "WTF!?!? YOU built THAT?!?!?!??". I have some skillz after all...

this thread is going to be effin amazing!

I built a Bocce Gallery in my back yard for watching bocce matches. It's about 10" high, has a shed roof made of 1x6, a bench seat in the shade and I'll be putting in windows, a barn-style sliding door and some insect screening to keep the bugs out. If I end up spending time out there, I'll run some power to it and install a sound system. I was kind of proud/insulted when my friends came over after it was done and were all, "WTF!?!? YOU built THAT?!?!?!??". I have some skillz after all...

Bike bocce?

I'm going to attempt a felted top tube pad one of these days. I just started knitting (my gf has crazy knitting skills and she finally taught me the basics) and it seems like a pretty easy project.

I'll post some pics of my Ikea placemat mudflaps one of these days.

+mudflaps

I'm working on some leather mudflaps to match my brooks. I cut them out last night, but just need to drill out the existing rivets in my freddy fenders, and find some suitable hardware.

I'd post a picture of the bike I spraypainted, but I ain't spraypainted it yet. Turns out that the lawmakers of the world still have their heads firmly grounded in their buttholes and continue to unflinchingly deny anybody under the age of eighteen rights to spraypaint products, even if they're buying steel wool and rubber gloves and masking tape and metal primer along with it.

I shall have the last laugh. And the city courthouse will have a new appendage, if you catch my drift.

I'd post a picture of the bike I spraypainted, but I ain't spraypainted it yet. Turns out that the lawmakers of the world still have their heads firmly grounded in their buttholes and continue to unflinchingly deny anybody under the age of eighteen rights to spraypaint products, even if they're buying steel wool and rubber gloves and masking tape and metal primer along with it.

I shall have the last laugh. And the city courthouse will have a new appendage, if you catch my drift.

Wow. That is a ****ing stupid law. Guess the vandals will have to steal their spray paint rather than buy it like the upstanding citizens they obviously are. :rolleyes:

I'd post a picture of the bike I spraypainted, but I ain't spraypainted it yet. Turns out that the lawmakers of the world still have their heads firmly grounded in their buttholes and continue to unflinchingly deny anybody under the age of eighteen rights to spraypaint products, even if they're buying steel wool and rubber gloves and masking tape and metal primer along with it.

I shall have the last laugh. And the city courthouse will have a new appendage, if you catch my drift.
You don't have parents or friends over the age of 18?

I got my momma. She'll hook me up, the sweet lady. But jeah, the guy at checkout was like, "It's the law. It's just like cigarettes, you know?"

No. No I don't know. Please explain, Sales Associate D-Bag, why I, three months shy of eighteen, am barred from buying spray paint. Is there a fear that I inevitably use spraypaint as a means to my inherently vandalistic teenage ends? Will I huff it? Is high-gloss enamel the cognac of the paint fume world?

Effing chicken-lovers.

I got my momma. She'll hook me up, the sweet lady. But jeah, the guy at checkout was like, "It's the law. It's just like cigarettes, you know?"

No. No I don't know. Please explain, Sales Associate D-Bag, why I, three months shy of eighteen, am barred from buying spray paint. Is there a fear that I inevitably use spraypaint as a means to my inherently vandalistic teenage ends? Will I huff it? Is high-gloss enamel the cognac of the paint fume world?

Effing chicken-lovers.
This explains a lot.:)
*Edit* Dude I am totally playin' so please don't "jack" me.

Is there a fear that I inevitably use spraypaint as a means to my inherently vandalistic teenage ends?


Ding ding ding! Just wait a few years, then you too will want those goddamn kids to get off your lawn.

Hey lyledriver, remind me to talk to you tomorrow about DIY leather mudflaps.

Phallic army man:

http://www.petrolheads.ca/galleries/albums/userpics/10004/02Dec06-008.jpg

Saddle security:

http://www.petrolheads.ca/galleries/albums/userpics/10004/16Nov06-009.jpg

both awesome ideas ^^^^

I've got big plans to braze up a nice rack for my bike in the spring. I also want to build a luggage rack out of stainless steel for my '79 Rabbit, but we'll see if that happens or not.

I am going to be making a wreath for my head tube today! I will post pictures when i finish.
(edit, here it is)
http://static.flickr.com/133/323862278_8c0d0f8d07.jpg

Check out Make and Craft for some great ideas, they love bike stuff.
Make Blog Bike Category (http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/bicycles/).
(the diy shoe covers is on the list as well.

I'd post a picture of the bike I spraypainted, but I ain't spraypainted it yet. Turns out that the lawmakers of the world still have their heads firmly grounded in their buttholes and continue to unflinchingly deny anybody under the age of eighteen rights to spraypaint products, even if they're buying steel wool and rubber gloves and masking tape and metal primer along with it.

I shall have the last laugh. And the city courthouse will have a new appendage, if you catch my drift.


if you think that's bad at the pearl in philly(and maybe pearl everywhere i'm not sure) you have to be 25 to buy spray paint, i guess the fact that they have a million colors makes them a popular shopping spot for graffiti artists, it's just frustrating to be like "wait i'm 23 and i can't buy spray paint here"

I'm still baffled that you have to be 21 to buy a drink in the states

Forget that, have to be 25 to buy paint???

Can't buy it in Chicago, period.

DIY brake caliper extenders.
http://static.flickr.com/99/259584088_5bd0758874_b.jpg

DIY brake caliper extenders.

YES!

(I love the sweet elvish.)

Bike bocce?
Drunken Bocce.

I'm still baffled that you have to be 21 to buy a drink in the states
+1 on that! And then when you do get to drink a brew, it's weak like herbal tea... Apparently it's easier to get pot than to get booze here if you're under 18.

I used to make fixed wheels out of old (schwinn or whatever I could find at the dump) road wheels. I would dismantle and pull the whole freewheel assembly off the hub, remove all the cogs except one of the threaded ones that are used to hold the whole thing together, then I would put it back together and weld the internals, then the cog to the freewheel assembly, then rotofix it to the hub. Worked ok up until I started running ~85 gear inches, then I started bending axles on tough climbs. (couldn't re-dish the wheel because the assembly was the same size as a 5 speed). Finally have a proper track hub and can't belive the difference.

Also made a bunch of choppers and tallbikes from scrap.

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e389/bobbyip/000_0269.jpg
A fixed gear MTB wheel which I made using a front hub. Put in a rear axle, respaced it, drilled a cog with the exact same pattern as a disc rotor (damn that took ages), bolted it on, gave it a nice lacing pattern and got a very cheap fixie wheel.

I made some really hideous pillows (red synthetic fur stuff and camo) and I make my own beer pretty often.

Lyledriver, I will trade you beer for a top tube cozy.

I've got a frame pad on my bike.

I did the old chain seat lock, but the bike theft rate around here does not warrant a bike lump under my saddle.

This thread is sweet, I'm friends with the girl from girlbikedog (http://www.girlbikedog.blogspot.com/)

Am I cool too???

Phallic army man:

http://www.petrolheads.ca/galleries/albums/userpics/10004/02Dec06-008.jpg
Action figures make great bike accessories:

http://daapspace3.daap.uc.edu/~rutledkf/action.jpg

+1 on that! And then when you do get to drink a brew, it's weak like herbal tea... Apparently it's easier to get pot than to get booze here if you're under 18.

Or, even Heroin.

Yesterday I DIY'd a rear-fender-to-chainstay-bridge spacer out of a ziptie and a 1.5cm segment cut from a small plastic flashlight body. It seems to work pretty well so far! No digicam, otherwise I'd post a picture.

Am I cool too???
Nope. You're still a göt lalesi.

how strong is that?

Action figures make great bike accessories:

http://daapspace3.daap.uc.edu/~rutledkf/action.jpg

I used to have a bunch of GI Joes tied to my spokes with wire but eventually the wire rusted and they fell off. I should go get some more.

Apparently it's easier to get pot than to get booze here if you're under 18.

Definetly.
I could have an oz of headie buds in my hand in ten minutes, but I dont know anyone to get booze from.

how strong is that?

Were you asking me?
If so:
It's good so far. The flashlight body piece (from a fake mini-maglite received as a stocking stuffer some years ago) is actually pretty strong over that short distance. It'd take a lot more force than the ziptie could dish out to do anything to it. The ziptie is definitely the weak link---over the 1.5cms it has a fair amount of room to stretch. If I take another half cm off the spacer the ziptie will probably be a little happier and also I'll have more clearance to take off my wheel.

If none of this works over the long haul, I'll consider drilling and tapping the chainstay bridge.

yeah, dude, all i can usually get is cigarettes, alchohol is hard, but weed is easy, depending on who you know.

That's so ****ed up...
Although, alcohol is more addictive and more harmful than weed anyway.

Nope. You're still a göt lalesi.

Sikter Git!

Ha ha, I knew i was getting old when i realized the kids at the highschool my gf volunteers at can find drugs about 500 times quicker than me.