Archive for the ‘Bikes’ Category
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Poo-Powered Bicycle
We’re pretty sure you’ve never seen one of these before: A Poo-Powered motorcycle with a toilet bowl for a seat. Were we right, or what? The unusual motorcycle design, called the Toilet Bike Neo Project, was recently unveiled by leading Japanese toilet manufacturer, TOTO, in order to promote the company’s “Green Challenge” of reducing CO2 emissions in bathrooms by 50% over the next five years (what ...
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This Bicycle Plays Vinyl Records
Merel Slootheer, Liat Azulay and Pieter Frank de Jong are the brains behind this collaborative bicycle project, F/P/M – Feats Per Minute. With backgrounds in graphics, illustration and industrial design, the team aimed to transform a 30-year-old Alpina bicycle into something awesome – enter the Record-playing Bike. The unit features recycled parts from salvaged vertical record players, but the best part about this project is how ...
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LOBSTER SHELL MOTORCYCLE ART
Taiwanese chef and food carving mastermind Huang Mingbo has created some incredible miniature model motorcycles made from lobster shells that are quite skillfully created and highly detailed. Huang Mingbo presented the strange sculptures at the Fuzhou hotel in China.
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SKY HIGH BICYCLE
The crazies over at Atomic Zombie have designed and built this outrageous bicycle that uses a step ladder to create a sky-high bicycle seat. The bicycle is called the Sky Walker, and thanks to its rigid frame, it is able to accommodate several passengers on the ladder – the bike can carry as many people that can squeeze on. And now, for the fun part. Atomic ...
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PIMPED OUT LUXURY BICYCLES
Chicago-based artist, Dzine (a.k.a. Carlos Rolon), has built these amazing sculptures of bicycles using cream of the crop luxury materials, including Swarovski crystals, 24K Gold plating, Chrome, combined with regular run-of-the-mill materials like enamel, rubber and mirrors. Although Dzine creates a variety of painting, drawing and digital works, his pimped-out bicycle sculptures are some of our favourite WHOA-worthy pieces of art.
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STRANGEST MOTORCYCLE HELMETS EVER
OR, CHECK OUT THIS WATERMELON HELMET
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R2-D2 HELMET FOR STARWARS FANS
This WHOA-Worthy helmet was made by super crafty Jenn Hall, a pastry artist by day and freelance illustrator by night. This is what she has to say about her now-famous R2-D2 Helmet. First, I sand-papered the crap out of an old helmet. Then I primed and sprayed it with a silver spray paint. The next step was labor-intensive. I outlined all the shapes with tape. It ...
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FLYING MOTORCYCLE CONCEPT
However, this fantasy has been given shape by Gonzalo Guerrero, who has just designed a flying motorcycle! This flying motorcycle, which has been called Machine_Fly, looks sleek and shiny; the silver handle, and yellow buttons matching with the black and red exterior make you want to ride the bike at the very instant you get a glimpse of it. Looking at the bottom you will see ...
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THE TRON LIGHTCYLE
The Tron Lightcycle built by Parker Brother’s Choppers was the answer to the question “How are you going to top that?” This build was special because it showed alot of people that lacked faith in our abilities, that we could accomplish the impossible. The final product is nothing short of amazing. The real question after seeing this bike on the street is, you guessed it – ...
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HOVER BIKE
Chris Mallyo has unveiled his latest design for the first generation of wind-powered bikes. The bike remains a prototype and is not yet available for purchase – Mallyo’s invention still has to undergo some additional safety testing before it can be released to the public. The bike’s frame has a light foam core with kevlar reinforced carbon fibber. The blades on both front and rear propeller ...
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BENT BAMBOO BICYCLE
This bicycle is made from sustainable bamboo material and was designed by Alexander Vittouris, a design student at Australia’s Monash University. The young designer envisions a bicycle that isn’t built, but rather “grown” – the bend stalks are formed into the smooth curves gradually while the bamboo stalk grows (a concept that is inspired by ‘arborsculpture’ – the process in which tree branches are fixed into ...
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INSANE SINGLE WHEELED MOTORBIKE
What began as a high school science fair project has quickly turned into an international sensation. Four years ago, a then 17-year-old Benjamin Gulak traveled to China with his father on a business trip. When he saw the incredible pollution in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong, much of it produced by smoky two-stroke scooters and motorcycles, he knew that electrics would make ideal substitutes—if they were ...
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SCRAP METAL ‘ALIENS’ MOTORCYCLE
A man from Bangkok has used recycled materials from old cars and bicycles to create this monster-looking motorcycle. All pieces are reused and arranged in a way to resemble an alien – and we must admit, the modelling on the hands and face is extremely well done. The alien is best viewed from the side where you can really understand the physical form of the alien ...
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SELF-LOCKING BICYCLE
Kevin Scott just unveiled his revolutionary bendable bike. That’s right, with the push of a lever the cycle becomes bike-Houdini and can wrap around any post making it easy to secure all its parts with just one lock. No more clunky chains? Sign us up! http://www.inhabitat.com
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THIS BICYCLE COSTS $40,000
Describing their products as “perfectly handcrafted and strictly limited objects of art,” Germany’s Vandeyk Contemporary Cycles this fall will release the Nightstream, a retro-inspired mountain bike with a whopping €16,500 price-tag. The bike brand, comprised of “a handpicked brigade of experts in fields as diverse as design, bicycle frame building, photography, and writing,” seeks to produce revolutionary, highly-sophisticated designs with each hand-constructed bike. Constructed with only ...
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WATERMELON HELMET
Protect your melon with a melon-printed helmet. It makes perfect sense.
