Making a Jungle (Bamboo) bicycle

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…

From Fists and Steel to Jungle Bicycle Part 1

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…

Bamboo Cafe Bike 4/13 Update

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…

Cafe Bicycle Update 4/6

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…

Dan Cafe Bicycle Update

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…

Progress

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…

Top 5 Constraints

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…

Rock Em Sock Em Bicycle PDR

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…

Dan’s Main Design Project Inspiration

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…

Dan’s Aspirations

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…

Here to help: Dan Moody’s Skillset

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…

Bicycle Component Clock

  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…

Turning Old Bicycle Parts into a Clock

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…

WPA Posters

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…