Deathbike

A buddy’s dad, who worked at construction sites, had a handful of abandoned bikes that he took home from a site because he didn’t want to see them go to scrap.

So we did what any reasonable person would do. We cut them apart, found unique and ridiculous ways to weld them together using an oxy-acetylene torch, coat hangers, and absolutely no welding experience whatsoever.

Video of it in action

I came up with the concept and basically cut apart bikes and tried fitting tubes together until it made sense. Once it it was together, it took me more time to work up the courage to actually mount it than I expected. But it worked!

I was going to college at the time so I brought it to campus. Once I’d shown off my silly creation to my peers, I just left it un-locked at the bike rack. Each day I’d ride it a little bit and leave it somewhere else on campus. It moved around from other people trying it. This went on for probably a month, but one day I found it in the bike rack like below – it finally broke.