Wood Bikes: Art You Can Ride

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Wood Bikes: Art You Can Ride

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Bill Patchett and Bill Holloway create complete bike frames out of wood, following the entire process from felling a tree in the urban forest, to shaping and finishing it. This creative example of reuse becomes a piece of rolling art at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011.

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8 thoughts on “Wood Bikes: Art You Can Ride

  1. 零 影月 says:

    They have a yearly race where they ride wooden bikes down a hill somewhere. Quick google search image for reference: http://www.flickr.com/photos/10913960@N04/1398742773/

  2. 零 影月 says:

    They have a yearly race where they ride wooden bikes down a hill somewhere. Quick google search image for reference: http://www.flickr.com/photos/10913960@N04/1398742773/

  3. Ramona Fuller says:

    i cant believe this!! me and my sister just got two i-pads for $42.77 each and a $50 amazon card for $9. the stores want to keep this a secret and they dont tell you. 
    Go here, http://tinyurl.com/3qa436v

  4. Ramona Fuller says:

    i cant believe this!! me and my sister just got two i-pads for $42.77 each and a $50 amazon card for $9. the stores want to keep this a secret and they dont tell you. 
    Go here, http://tinyurl.com/3qa436v

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Matt Richardson is a San Francisco-based creative technologist and Contributing Editor at MAKE. He’s the co-author of Getting Started with Raspberry Pi and the author of Getting Started with BeagleBone.

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