I love this bicycle seat bottle opener. I love how simple the design is and how inconspicuous it will look just hanging out under your bike seat. I do wish, however, that there was a way to add a corkscrew to it, too. That way, when you slapped your wine bottle onto your bike, you would be all set to open it. You know you want one.

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After the impressive (and impressively drunk Breton’s) video banging shoe bottle of wine (I speak English, I promeese), even more have appeared. And if you must have corks and cork screws, well, thank you.

Clocking in at just a tad uglier than the Monster Bike and perhaps far more practical: the guy behind the Whymcycle Express, and whymcycles, is my new hero. For lack of better words, here are his:

Stock fork surpassed by adding rear 2/3′s of a full suspension mountain bike as the springer front end. Double rimmed drum brake 16″ laced to 26″ alloy, get us height, braking and with plastic lawn sign in between the spokes, a dandy rudder!! Also tripled up on Torrington freewheeling axel bearings for the rear drive component. 3 of them with 6 all-thread bolts thru their sprocket teeth, making them act as one, ideally reducing by 2/3′s the strain on each one..also bolted by the 6 all-threads, a 65 tooth Schwinn Exerciser cog..dune/mud/hillclimb to test them this weekend @ the da Vinci Days Kinetic Sculpture Race in Corvallis. OR.
That fork innovation’s going onto my full suspension tallie Real soon….

Rear wheel ‘overwheels’ are 40″ trampolines for mud/sand/water paddle wheels….shall see if they survive the test weekend also….
Go to All sizes ‘original’ to see some of the details that make this function & survive.
Most of my beasts are made to work and last, and be serviceable for maintenance ..bearing work, spoke tuning, and further ‘upgrades’ . Yikes! (It Will get painted, promise.)

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Wait, what? Ok, anyone feel like a hamster!? With no handlebars it would appear as if you have to lean, like on a motorcycle, to steer. Sweet.

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Wow. I can’t think of anything more stupid for the state of Colorado or the city therein than to ban bicycles. Here’s the description:

There are signs posted in several spots around town that show a bicycle with a circle around it and a line across it; however if people miss it and didn’t read the section in the local newspaper talking about Blackhawk’s new law, most would have no clue riding in spots is illegal.”Most of the business owners didn’t even know about it,” said Webb.

Bicycles Banned In Blackhawk – Denver News Story – KMGH Denver.

While the Monsterbike may not be the best for tackling hills or going fast, it would certainly teach an important lesson to anyone who doesn’t check their mirror before opening their car door.

via Monsterbike – BikeHacks.

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Just in case you were wondering, “hey, what does an 85cm bike look like?” Here’s one for ya.

Those are 700c wheels. Every time I post this photo people get upset and tell me that they must be 24″ wheels. Wrong 700C.

It is a great bike. It is 83.5 cm st and ht. I think I will try to get it and put a tiller and a kidback tandem crank on it so I can ride it. Ebay auction 330045460487.

There are some tandems and otherstuff being sold as well on ebay. Check em out here under seller name Kelly bike outlet.

How to open a wine bottle with … your shoe! It works! Wait for the last few seconds, it’s worth it.

A poster of a nude nymph on a bicycle, from 1895, has been deemed pornographic.

Earlier this week management at MBC United, a Birmingham-based company that distributed the wine throughout the state, was informed by the ABC that the label on Cycles Gladiator wines had been deemed pornographic, that the label hadn’t been properly approved by the board and it would now have to be removed from stores. The offending label carries a reproduction of an art poster done in 1895 by an unknown Parisian artist introducing the Cycles Gladiator bicycle. The poster depicts a nude woman with flowing red hair essentially flying through space with a bicycle.

Just thought I would share, because this is one of my all time favorite wine labels. Story here, and best comment from bama_in_hawaii:

Wow, up to 144 bikes can be stored in this underground, super high tech fancy Japanese bicycle garage, and they can be retrieved in seconds. It’s like the Matrix farm, but for bikes! Check out what the underground view looks like in this, all Japanese, video.

From the Make Flickr pool, this helmet looks great. A/C for a hot day, or fume buffering for in the city cruising. About making this helmet, “openfly” writes:

I was bored one day at NYCR and started playing with my rising collections of motors.

Ended up stuffing an 18v motor into my bike helmet and putting two 9vs in series on it. Runs awesome. Surprisingly effective as a cooling apparatus and even more surprisingly effective as a fume buffer.

Probably not very safe in an accident though =P

And while you’re checking out helmets, you should see this solar powered bike helmet, or these bike helmet ear warmers.