Bendable Bicycle Wraps Around Poles

Locking up bikes to poles in an urban environment is always a tricky proposition. Often you will see bikes with two locks, one for each wheel and of course the frame. But with this ingenious invention by 21 year old Kevin Scott, the bicycle will fold over itself around the pole:

A ratchet in the seatpost part of the frame is used to tighten or bend the bike’s frame. Once it’s in the curved position, you can use a single lock to secure both wheels and the frame. I’m not sure how rigid a cable pulled frame will be over the long haul (you definitely don’t want it going all limp while you’re riding! that’s what she said) but it’s an interesting idea that should be explored further.

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Aquabike

This is a homemade amphibious bike made from water bottles by Li Jin from China. He uses a total of 8 giant water bottles to act as pontoons to make the bicycle to be able to float on water. And the back of the wheel is fitted with paddles so as to propels the bicycle forward.

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Combination of Supercar and Superbike

This is by far the weirdest diy i ever seen. The combination of Supercar and Superbike. I wonder is the bike the one controlling the direction or is the car steering wheel responsible for it? This DIY project done by Frenchman François Knorreck, took him over a 10 year span in which he spent over 10,000 hours building it from the frame up. The combining of a car and a bike definitely involve some tricky engineering to balance it properly.

There are a total of 3 exhaust pipes. The hubs and brakes come from a VW Golf GTI, the wheels are from an Audi 80, headlights and blinkers came from BMW and Renault cars, the bike’s headlight comes from a Kawasaki 1000 RX bike, the tail lights from a Citroën Xantia car and that’s a 3CL motorcycle used. The bodywork was made from 63 custom molds.

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Ville, the foldable shopping cart bicycle

Bicycle as a form of transport is getting more and more popular now. One minor problem is always hard to find a space to park your bicycle while you go and shop for your grocery.This is the transforming Ville, a bike that can fold in half in order to become a shopping cart. It may not be a cart that can hold a week’s worth of groceries, but if you just need to get enough to fill two baskets, this is probably your deal. Plus you will not need to search for parking space anymore.Yep, it really just makes sense to build a bicycle like this. Unfortunately, it is just a concept at this particular moment.

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Child creates vacuum cleaner-powered Spider-man suit

Kids are getting smarter and innovative now. This kid by the name of Hibiki Kono used two 1,400 watt vacuum cleaners so that they have enough power to suck up against a wall. The end result is a super suit that is a little Iron Man and Spider-man at the same time. Maybe his idea should be mass produce for kids. As they always dream of being some marvel super hero. But of course the equipments produce should try to limit the height or have mattresses and harnesses while playing with it.

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