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More ingenuity spotted around town

Posted by Jonathan Maus (Editor) on June 30th, 2006 at 10:15 am

sandle fender
[The flip-flop fender.]

A couple more ingenius bike modifications I’d like to share.

This first one I saw parked in the bike rack at Providence Medical Center the other day. It’s a fender made out of duct tape and a flip-flop sandal.

There are tons of interesting fender modifications in this town, but I’ve never seen this method before.

And then this morning at Breakfast on the Bridges I ran into a neat guy with a thick southern accent sporting this very nifty cargo trailer and hitch combo.

ingenuis trailer/hitch combo
[Good use of a baseball bat.]

ingenuis trailer/hitch combo

He’s using an aluminum baseball bat as the hitch and the chassis of a shopping cart as the trailer, all tied together with a hefty leather belt.

He said it worked well and he went on and on about his plans to improve upon the design. I think he’s off to a fine start.

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4 Responses to “More ingenuity spotted around town”

  1. Scout
    June 30th, 2006 11:30
    1

    I love this town!

  2. Donna
    June 30th, 2006 12:57
    2

    Such a nice man, too.

  3. Tiago
    June 30th, 2006 19:13
    3

    So, that's really cool! An idea I've been having is to have a show or friendly contest on creative bike fenders. I've seen so many ingenious ones around and I believe they deserve some spotlight.

  4. SKiDmark
    June 30th, 2006 20:56
    4

    I think a FedEX tube used as a rear fender on track bike is way cooler than those cheeseball plastic fenders.

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