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.

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

Hold the phones, and forget the last post, this instructable on how to make a chain and hub bottle opener is the answer to all of life’s problems. Really.

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Ah this project is reminiscent of the glory days of Apple technology when the iPods would come with their own felt-type case. No need to get anything else! But, now that we’ve all realized the relative market for “protection” they come with cases no more. After you get or make a belt out of a recycled inner tube, why not cut and stitch together your very own iPod Nano case? Here’s how.

It’s spring, the birds are chirping, crickets croaking (not yet) and the domiciles are being cleaned out. For some, this time of year is a time to boot to the curb all unwanted and unused items, that is, items which were stored all winter. For others, this is a time to collect! There are great things on the side of the road this time of year, and here is a great example from Alan Yates:

Several months ago I was walking home from the post office [and,] nearing my place [,] I saw it was “clean-up week”: the curb [was] dotted with various piles of junk [that] people had put out to be disposed off [sic] by the council pickup. The pile outside my block of units had mostly busted furniture, but one item caught my eye, an Aluminium bicycle rim.

Now, I try to ride my bike most places instead of drive, which really cuts down on the “I found it on the side of the road” tendency I have. Also, I’m not one for schematics of any kind, but this seems neat, if only to the geek in me.

Featuring a chain ring shelf — handy for stowing magazines/books, your bike shoes, a bottle of wine, or maybe a kryptonite chain or two — here’s a perfect guest room table for you bicyclist BIYers. You can always check out more bike part furniture here.

Here’s how to “make” a wine carrier using a piece of cloth.

The bicycle helmet you all have been waiting for is here: the green helmet. From the tutorial:

I thought this would be a well-suited application of solar powered trickle charge panels. I only ride at night about an hour a week, so during the day the helmet can sit in a window and charge. Helmet mounted lights also free me from having lights mounted on my bike that need to be detached to keep from being stolen. It works in the rain and so far is always charged when I need it.

When you have completed your helmet, check out the world’s most friendly bicycle cities. And our very own state of Colorado is in the list!

I’m not sure about $3000.00, but this chandelier made of wine glasses is really neat looking. I suppose the price tag is a result of the “vintage” wine glasses, but I’m sure that this project can be done relatively easily and at a much lower cost, I’m thinking not more than $100-$120. What will you need? A bunch of “straggler” wine glasses, you know, the ones that are left after the rest in the set are broken. Some epoxy, a little wire, and a nice(r) light fixture from that great orange hardware store. A little wiring know-how, and some nice wine to go along with it would be nice. While you’re messing with wine glasses and wires, how about you take a look at the Electricity Wine Arc from wrapables.com?

Saturday night we were snowed in. Summit County can be a bit iffy with lots of snow: luckily, one of our fellow in-snow-ees had his laptop with him. We were able to plan an upcoming trip to Moab, grab the ski report for Sunday, and accomplish a bunch of other random tasks by using his computer. That’s the good thing about a laptop.

The bad thing about a laptop is that we all tend to use it in places and areas (hot tub!) where it doesn’t belong. If you happen to be enjoying a fine glass of wine while checking your weather for a ride, or your email for riding buddies, and an accident occurs: here’s what to do if you spill liquid on your laptop.

There is an instructable over at Race Day Nutrition (a site I still haven’t quite figured out), which covers how to make your own bicycle light. This one looks pretty good, albeit a bit pricey ($80.00 in parts?).

Make covered this story so it has to be good.

I do have a penchant for the 180s, but if you’re not keen on shelling out the dough (psst… people with access to REI, they’re on clearance for $5.00 right now!) these “bike helmet ear warmers” seem like they fit the bill, and we here at WineandWheels.com always appreciate home-distilled versions.

These instructions on how to build a bicycle hoist might come in handy, especially if your “few bikes” turn into a full-blown fleet.

This is a pretty simple and quick way to build a bike hoist that will lift a bike evenly and easily out of your way. The neat trick is that it uses one rope to lift the bike evenly from two points which helps it lift easily and uses pulley magic to reduce the weight of the bike for the hoister. No power tools required although a drill is handy.

This setup is a little iffy on the security (are you parking your automobile underneath it?) but I would tackle this one before I decided to make a recumbent bicycle from garage refuse!