RSSHow To: Build a motorized bicycle
Dave made this informative video on how to attach a "Weed Eater" [string trimmer] motor to a bicycle. Used bicycles and string trimmers are easy to find and very cheap to buy. You could make this project for less than $100, maybe even less than $50. The information on modifying the clutch could be very useful in making robots too!
How To: Build a Weed Eater motorized bicycle
Posted by Marc de Vinck |
Aug 15, 2008 01:00 AM
Bicycles, DIY Projects |
Permalink
| Comments (4)
| Email This |
| Digg this!
Recent Entries
- Googlephone Jailbreak - Remote access gained ...
- LED "Art Object" is the new LED throwie
- Submersed Songs: Fish that make music
- Learn about electronics: Relays 101
- Teach Make!
- Robotic fish
- Medical aesthetic footwear
- New soft circuit kits in the maker shed and massive soft electronics roundup
- DIY hobby o-scope
- Sparky: DIY telepresence robot
Comments
Oldest comments listed first.
| Posted by: justDIY on August 15, 2008 at 6:15 AM |
@anonymous ... aah, the rust belt - just like Michigan, we love our rust.
what makes me laugh is the statement that "Every city has a bearing supply store". I guess Canadians really like their bearings, there's nothing like that around me for at least 200 miles.
| Posted by: acidrain69 on August 15, 2008 at 11:54 AM |
Very nice DIY. If you don't have access to the tools to build this yourself, there are kits out there that mount on a bike. I have one of the Grubee kits mounts on a Trek Antelope 800. Works pretty good, and you just need a screwdriver and maybe a drill depending on your frame diameters. Clutch is manual, you just let out the clutch while riding and that starts the engine. They usually run about $250. Not as cool from the DIY perspective, but much easier. If you have the engine sitting around anyway, you could always build a DIY generator using a regulated car alternator.
 |
Posted by: mlange.myopenid.com on August 15, 2008 at 1:08 PM |
@anonymous:
NO, there is NOTHING without rust.
It's like a disease, plaguing all steel and iron-based products. Anything that isn't stored during the winter eventually gets infected.
Leave a comment
Subscribe to MAKE Magazine!
Subscribe today, save 42% and get web access to MAKE free. MAKE Digital Edition is available only to subscribers.
$34.95 / 1 year
(4 Quarterly Issues)
Features and more @ MAKE!
Stop by the Maker Shed store and check out THE place for open source hardware, Arduino & Arduino accessories, electronic kits, science kits, smart stuff for kids, back issues of MAKE & CRAFT, box sets, books, robots, kits from Japan and more.
Add MAKE to iGoogle - GoogleGoogle.
Add MAKE to your RSS reader - Real simple.
Add MAKE on Twitter.
Add MAKE on FriendFeed & the MAKE room.
Why advertise on MAKE?
Read what folks are saying about us!
Click here to advertise on MAKE!
Makezine authors!
Phillip Torrone
Senior Editor
Tel: 707-827-7311
Twitter / AIM
Gareth Branwyn
Jonah Brucker-Cohen
Collin Cunningham
Marc de Vinck
Kip Kay
Luke Iseman
Patti Schiendelman
Becky Stern
Mike Dixon
Peter Horvath(intern)
Current Podcast
The Best of Maker Faire Austin 2008
Check out all the fun and excitement at this year's Maker Faire in Austin, Texas. People from all over the world came to experience this amazing event. Take a look at some of the highlights and make plans to...
More...
