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Make: Online reader skatronix saw the modded bikes I posted earlier and left a comment describing his own whip:

me and my dear friend olegtron decided to build a three wheeler that contains all sorts of electric equipment for making electronics on-road. It contains a 12V car battery( +solar panels) to run all electronics like car stereo, soldering stations, mobile VJing, etc... sorry that text is in finnish :) maybe to make it as in english too. On our blog one can find step-by-step instructions on making the three-wheeler and wiring for car battery.

Pretty sweet!

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I found these two bikes in the MAKE Flickr pool:

The top photo shows a folding bike with an "electric push trailer" -- a $75 e-bike conversion kit turned into an electrically-powered trailer. Neat idea!

The bottom photo shows a standard mountain bike that some maniac has hacked to run via gas engine.

What have you done to mod your bike this summer? Leave a comment.

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Learn to strip down and repaint an old bike in this CRAFT project sponsored by Krylon. MAKE staffer Sheena Stevens shows off the made-over Space Cruiser in the pic above! Brookelynn Morris writes:

My friend had a classic beach bike that she rode around town every day for years. It is a good bike with great style, but when she came back from college, it went to pasture in the yard. The hibiscus decals that were once fun were now faded, and a perfectly good ride sat collecting weeds.

In one weekend we completely transformed her dull and faded beach cruiser into a shiny bike fit for a ride in the Milky Way. I used Krylon spray paint with an anodized finish to give it a gleaming green to blue fade. The Krylon X-Metal effect is achieved by starting with the X-Metal Converter. It lays down a very sparkly base coat. The X-Metal colors themselves are a sheer over-layer and together, they have an out-of-this-world effect.

The project has a handy PDF to get you going.

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Darrel Anderson of Bon Accord, AB, merged a couple of unused bikes into a cargo bike -- except instead of a cargo platform, he has included two child car seats so he can bring the kids along.

The bike is amazingly stable. I took a guess and made the rear steering arm a bit longer that the front one attached to the forks. It is perfect and makes the bike easy to maneuver in the garage as the front wheel can be turned nearly 90 degrees.

The main difference in design from similar "front cargo bikes" is that instead of extending the head tube for the steering, I simply made a brace from angle iron and then extended a tube attached to the original front fork...

More:

• Mundo utility bicycle
• DIY cargo bike
• How-To: Build a cargo bike
• Gelato vending cargo bike mod
• Cargo bikes
• The Bamboo bicycle trailer & DIY bicycle trailers
• Impressive collection of cargo bikes
• Milk crate bicycle saddlebags
• Retro family bike

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