Daniel Moody
15 posts

Making a Jungle (Bamboo) bicycle

Daniel Moody
2016, Post 13 - 2016
This project began as an adaptation of the Joe Lewis Detroit fist and cafe racer aesthetics to a man powered two wheeled machine. It morphed into a jungle inspired bamboo bicycle Mowgli would be proud to own. However I am the proud owner and creator of this machine and am thankful to have learned so…

From Fists and Steel to Jungle Bicycle Part 1

Daniel Moody
2016, Student Work
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Introduction The project has left me with a beautiful bamboo jungle bicycle I will ride into my next guerrilla warfare endeavor. The following will explain my process and eventually in good time I’ll reveal what it all means. To quickly recap: disappointed in my welding skills I switched from making a steel cafe racer bicycle to…

Bamboo Cafe Bike 4/13 Update

Daniel Moody
2016, Student Work
4 Comments
Well I have run into some hiccups for the bamboo bicycle. I ordered some extra nice bamboo specifically selected, cured, and double butted for strength and bike building however when it came in on Monday it arrived cracked. AHHHH!!!! With the switch in materials I am in a bit of a time crunch. I quickly…

Cafe Bicycle Update 4/6

Daniel Moody
2016, Student Work
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I have finalized my modified design for straight bamboo tubing and completed the switch to bamboo as my material. After hours of research on the various ways bamboo can be used for a bike frame I felt comfortable that I could execute a design I would be satisfied with that will meet my intentions for the project.…

Dan Cafe Bicycle Update

Daniel Moody
2016, Student Work
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My original inspiration and motivation behind the bicycle was a feeling and emotion that I can’t quite put my finger on although I tried to in a few posts here and here. If it was subconsciously influenced by any aesthetic movements would say the closest is a combination of art deco and streamlining. I wanted…

Progress

Daniel Moody
2016, Student Work
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My bicycling chariot progress has taken a few steps forward and back lately. I have finalized the design, geometry, aesthetic, and components. However, I have been practicing my welds for a couple weeks and unfortunately it has been difficult to not blow through tubing using MIG and the wall thickness I desire. This has caused…

Top 5 Constraints

Daniel Moody
2016, Student Work
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The most critical constraints in creating my Fistcycle project are as follows: Creating a design that looks how I want but is also rideable. Designing a bicycle frame from scratch has been difficult. Extending or changing the shape of a tube or two from a current design is simple, but a larger deviation from the…

Rock Em Sock Em Bicycle PDR

Daniel Moody
2016, Student Work
8 Comments
Introduction For my final project I am going to make the bicycle Hemingway would zip around with on his way from one post-apocalyptic Parisian cafe to another. It is currently dubbed the “SlickCycle.” A primary inspiration for my work is the feel and aesthetic of a punching fist, specifically Joe Lewis’s in the iconic Detroit art piece…

Dan’s Main Design Project Inspiration

Daniel Moody
2016, Student Work
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I want to make a bicycle. More specifically I want to bring to life a zombie apocalypse, punch you in the face, cafe racer inspired cruiser bicycle. Finding my project for the main focus of this course has gone through a lot of refining, but I think I have settled on this final idea. I began…

Dan’s Aspirations

Daniel Moody
2016, Student Work
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I think at some point most people realize they can’t do everything. I have not yet hit that point. My interests are vast and the list of skills I want to acquire and perfect almost always overwhelms me. It seems like every day or at least week there is a new skill I would like…

Here to help: Dan Moody’s Skillset

Daniel Moody
2016, Student Work
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My best skill is a willingness and readiness to get in there and help you with anything. If we don’t have a skill or need to learn new things, thats the whole point of education right? I can definitely put in the time to do this. As a mechanical engineering graduate student in the design program…

Bicycle Component Clock

Daniel Moody
2016, Student Work
39 Comments
  Original Inspiration Intro Almost a year ago I visited a friend and saw a bicycle disc rotor hung on the wall. I had seen a few pieces of bicycle art before but this caught my eye and I walked over for a closer look. It was a functional and clean looking wall clock. The…

Turning Old Bicycle Parts into a Clock

Daniel Moody
2016, Student Work
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I have always wanted to make artwork, useful or not, out of old or broken parts from bikes. I’m not quite sure why but I really like the look of rotors, cassettes, hubs, wheels and cranks; probably more than complete bikes or beautiful frames. There seems to be so much effort put into their design (although…

WPA Posters

Daniel Moody
2016, Student Work
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http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b48847 Art to spread awareness for syphilis? During the depression in the 1930’s, jobs were hard to come by for most everybody in the United Sates. Artists especially felt the squeeze as Americans worried more about putting food on the table than supporting the arts. As part of the New Deal, the Works Progress Administration (WPA)…

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