For bicycle lovers, tinkerers, and inventors, this dream
resource offers hours of fun, creativity, and adventure. If
you have standard workshop tools, Atomic Zombie's
Bicycle Builder's Bonanza provides everything else you
need to create cool custom bicycles on a shoestring budget.
You'll find exciting plans for choppers, low racers,
tallbikes, recumbents, tandems, and others that defy
description.
You'll learn how easy -- and cheap -- it can be to build
machines with names like Marauder, Sky Cycle, and
Hammerhead -- to construct bicycles whose profiles will
make you gasp -- and to make your own recumbent bike that
can speed along at 80 kph on the flats. This book shows you
how to build them all, complete with photos and detailed
instructions!
Written by long-time bike hobbyist and inventor Brad
Graham, founder and host of the atomiczombie.com bicycle
builder's Web site, and creator of the world's tallest
bike, this value-packed, heavily illustrated manual offers
an exciting range of resources from complete custom bike
plans to details on working with tools and customizing
bikes you already own. Look inside for all the help you
need with:
- Getting parts for free, or almost free
- High-speed recumbent low racer with hydraulic disc
brakes
- A two-headed winter-ready mountain bike
- A bicycle so tall that you have to duck under power
lines
- Ultralong fork choppers with loads of attitude
- A rugged all-terrain mountain tandem
- Pedal-powered vehicles that seem to defy the laws of
physics
- Customizing details, such as getting a smooth paint job
andremoving rust from old chrome
- And much, much more!
Contents
- Basic Tools and Skills
- Acquiring Raw Materials
- Welding Basics
- Planning and Designing
- Taking It Apart
- The Infamous Chopper
- Winter Warriors
- The Sky Is The Limit
- Multiple Riders
- One-Wheeled Wonders
- Life in the Fast Lane
- Unclassified Rolling Objects
- Finishing and Restoration
- Bicycle-Building Resources
- Index