Puget Pounder

https://seattle.craigslist.org/see/bik/2468111972.html



The practicality never ends.

rootboy 

wow. I didn't know I needed one of these. But .... I can see it now. Good training for biking in stop and go traffic.

due ruote 

In a similar vein, this was in the Awake magazine that someone stuffed in my hand a while back.

Beach Comber

That is friggen hilarious!

repechage

There is a guy in Barcelona that also has a knife sharpening gig on the bike, but his is mounted behind the saddle.

On the Seattle bike, why does the sewing machine still have its electric motor?

Beach Comber

You have to love the touring rack. And the reflectors, so other sewing machines can see you after hours.

Zaphod Beeblebrox 

Probably easier to put a cog on the drive shaft of the electric motor than on the Main spindle of the sewing machine.

Also if the sewing machine were to jam and you had a chain drive hooked directly to the main spindle your pedaling would come to a very abrupt stop, or you'd really mess up the machine. The electric motor drives the sewing machine with a non-toothed belt drive which will slip if the machine jams to prevent you from damaging it. By driving the machine the way they are they've got a safety valve so to speak.

David Newton

Also, if the motor has brushes, as I'm pretty sure it will, you could generate electricity to power, say, a motor for the bike.
Hey... I'm sensing some perpetual motion here.

fietsbob

Does it sew heavy canvas ? You could do a mobile sail repair job with it.

Zaphod Beeblebrox 

I doubt its as strong as a treadle machine, but the machine looks like a standard duty machine from the 50's/60's which means its built better than most "Heavy-Duty" machines made currently.

Snydermann

As a fan of both sewing machines and bicycles I think that is a heck of a good deal. It actually looks rideable, maybe used in a large facility (factory) for doing mobile repair work in different parts of the plant?

Michael Angelo 

And it's a Fixie!!!

Zaphod Beeblebrox 

damn hipster.

+1 to Snydermann, that Machine Head is worth the 75 bux alone.

I'd buy it if it was in my area. I'd separate the Bike and Sewing machine though and use em seperately.

Captain Blight

It strikes me that it would be pretty easy to modify a treadle machine for bicycle drive. The human-powered engineering is built right in!

Amesja

$75? the bike is worth 2x that around here even needing "TLC."

shipwreck

I can't find any bike worth a crap here, but sewing machines like these are going into landfills. Maybe I could start getting them and selling them for the bike fund! I generaly pay no more than five bucks for a heavy singer or brother from the 50s -60s.

No one sews anymore. And no one knows how to adjust timing on the older machines. Kind of like bikes in a way...

Chris_in_Miami

It's certainly been done before, check out the seamstress at 4:30 minutes in:

Amesja

Wouldn't you think if someone was going to put some serious time into working on the bike as a seamstress a little wider and more comfortable seat might be in order -or did the PO pull that and put that POS on there when they decided to sell?