June 01, 2005

• Homebuilt Bicycles: What Will White People Think Of Next?
• Paul Keen from Adelaide Australia built this nifty front wheel drive recumbent in eight hours for less than $100. You can check out his site at www.users.bigpond.com/pekay/recum.htm. So, peacay - any relation? If so... 8 hours? Man. Nice work. There's a group of bike customizers out here who seem to be into jousting - building very tall bikes and then trying to knock each other off of them using padded broomsticks. Very strange, but building the bikes looks like fun.
• My next-door neighbor's father removed the wheels from a bicycle when I was young, and attached some sort of plastic flat pieces to the places where the wheels would go. Then he put giant handlebars and a banana seat on it. The idea was that you would be able to ride it down a hill in the snow like a sled. It was not able to be self-propelled. It didn't really work out so well. I think that if someone attempted the same thing today that the Department of Social Services would take custody of the man's child.
• Take these a step (or two) further and you have kinetic sculpture. Nice link, peacay.
• caution live frogs......that's bizarre! And no..I have no link. And bigpond is my broadband supplier. Wow, that's uncanny. AND my name is Paul too. And bibliochick...that's some freaky deaky stuff in that link!
• "And no...I have no link"......meaning: to the site or the people or the psychiatric flavour.
• "so, you dont like the olde-tyme bikes, eh?" [kicks in head]