100% Wooden Bicycle

[manred]

Just check it out!

16 year-old Marco Facciola built this completely wooden bike for a school project, managing to avoid using any metal at all. Yes, this wooden wheeled wonder even has a chain and gearing made of wood, held together with wooden joints and glue. The detail in the free-wheeling ratchet and spacers between the chain links, pinned with tiny dowels, is amazing. Marco had to complete this as a non-academic project for his International Baccalaureate, and inspiration came from his grandfather, forced to make wooden wheels for his bike during the war due to rubber shortages.

I wonder how long it took him to build this?

http://gizmodo.com/348866/high-school-student-builds-100-wooden-bike

 

[FRuMMaGe]

I can imagine him jumping through a ring of fire in that :lol:

 

[X@vier]

wow thats awesome.

~X

 

[wario2ooo]

hope he doesn't leave it in the rain

 

[SantaClaws]

hope he doesn't leave it in the rain

I was going to say that

it's not really ridable in that sense

 

[bilzar]

lol, that's pretty cool

 

[wario2ooo]

I was going to say that

it's not really ridable in that sense

it will look deformed and will wobble a lot......:lol:

 

[Bliss]

thats cool, just hope he doesnt have termites

 

[wario2ooo]

or use the brake.......lol

 

[Bliss]

or use the brake.......lol

CAUTION: Going to fast then pressing on brake may cause a fire :lol:

 

[Foxy]

Awkward seats = uncomfortable

Normal seats = slightly uncomfortable

Wooden seat = You will be renamed splinter ass.

 

[wario2ooo]

actually.....pretty much riding it is a bad thing

speeding up will also cause scraping

 

[Chute]

thats ingenius yet at the same time idiotic

 

[SantaClaws]

it's very cool

but if you have that much skill and that much spare time

why not build something useful?

 

[wario2ooo]

like hamburger earmuffs!