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Motu
21st March 2006, 13:54
Pretty cool I think,the frame of this bike is made fully from renewable resorses - basicaly grow one in your backyard! With only a few handyman tools from Mitre 10 you can craft your own frame from scratch....although burnouts may take on a whole new meaning.

crashe
21st March 2006, 13:58
Very nice indeed...... :whistle:

Silage
21st March 2006, 14:06
Thats just beeeuuuuuuuutiful. Getting a WoF could be interesting.

WRT
21st March 2006, 14:17
LOL - you should have posted this in the "Tree Falls for Bike" thread, with the caption of "The One that Bit Back".

ducatilover
21st March 2006, 14:18
bloody hippies haha pretty good

Finn
21st March 2006, 14:21
Meanwhile... In Markauckland's garage...

bugjuice
21st March 2006, 14:39
can it wheelie tho?
do a burn out, and burn it down!!!

Rosie
21st March 2006, 14:41
Would look nicer with moulded plywood fairings though.

marty
21st March 2006, 14:59
considering THIS>>>>>> is made out of wood, i don't see why a bike can't be

Ixion
21st March 2006, 15:08
There were several vintage cars with wooden chassis (and canvas body panels). haven't heard of a bike with a wooden frame (for real) but I don't see why it wouldn't work.

Ixion
21st March 2006, 15:12
This has a wooden chassis.

Motu
21st March 2006, 15:36
We still get trailers coming in for WoFs with wooden frames and draw bars.On one WoF course where the instructor was going on all anal about trailer regs I asked ''what about wooden trailers?'' He just said ''They've been doing pretty good up to now'',then ignored the subject.Been in use for 60 years,strong stuff I'd say.

froggyfrenchman
21st March 2006, 15:39
considering THIS>>>>>> is made out of wood, i don't see why a bike can't be

ooooooooh... nice pitts special! wadda i have to do to get a thrash?:Punk:

ducatilover
21st March 2006, 23:20
There were several vintage cars with wooden chassis (and canvas body panels). haven't heard of a bike with a wooden frame (for real) but I don't see why it wouldn't work.
back in the late 1800's there was a wooden framed steam bike does that count? and quite a few early cars had wooden chassis and in some cases wooden and canvas coachwork, hence the panel van or "woody":blip:

ducatilover
21st March 2006, 23:22
This has a wooden chassis.
is that a marcos? it looks british like a tvr but methinks it be a marcos, didnt alot of marcos cars use the essex ford v6?

Motu
21st March 2006, 23:29
A formed plywood monoquoc chassis for a bike would be pretty strong and light,just hard on the attachment points for engine forks and wheels.What's the betting there's one hanging up in the loft of some dinghy builders shed....

Finn
21st March 2006, 23:30
There's just something not quite right about riding a woody.

ducatilover
21st March 2006, 23:33
There's just something not quite right about riding a woody.
but what if it was a female doing the riding i like them riding my woody, and they dont get splinters incase you were wondering

sAsLEX
22nd March 2006, 06:28
This has a wooden chassis.
Morgan, that still builds its Plus 4 and 8 frames out of wood (ash, to be exact), startled the auto enthusiast world when it introduced the neo-classically modern Aero, with its aluminum body and chassis