Take a look at the Instructables website and you quickly realize that American ingenuity is not dead — it's hard at work in the garage or basement.
The collaborative website offers step-by-step directions on how to make anything, including dozens of posts on making bicycles and biking accessories, as well as making stuff from old bicycle parts.
I thought some of you bike designers or do-it-yourselfers might enjoy sharing your projects with the world. The website is sponsoring a contest, with prizes, for the best projects submitted in March.
They're not talking $25 million prizes from the X Foundation here. The prizes are more like Leatherman lasers and website logo T-shirts. And the undying graditude of people who undertake the projects.
For instance, the fella in the picture built that bike at home, as well as a curvy bike, a shop stool from a bike frame, and a bottle opener out of a bike chain.
What else is on the website? A bike trailer hitch that uses a hose, a lockable bicycle trunk, and a pedal-powered air compressor.
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