Hey, thanks for stopping by! If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to the RSS feed. You can also subscribe to BikeHacks by email. Thanks for visiting!While you can buy a Kickbike, you can also make you own hacked scooter. This comment was posted to the Kickbike post:
Weekend warrior in Manhattan on [...]

[Read more →]

Here are some instructions for building yourself a pretty simple bike computer using readily available materials (provided you’re an electronics guru) and free tools.
The thing is, the computer is simple, but the building part assuredly is not. Best of luck to any intrepid non-electrical-engineer-types that embark upon this hacktastic journey. It is not for the [...]

[Read more →]

The post last week on the Kickbike garnered quite a bit of attention. Many people left comments and I exchanged emails with a few of them, resulting in a news scoop. From the smoky back room of FBUSA I was told that the following information (and pictures) is yet to go public, but [...]

[Read more →]

On my daily commute a few times over the past months I had seen someone riding what appeared to be a hybrid bike/scooter. Dude was always coming at me so I never really got a good look at what he was riding. While walking around the other day I found the mysterious contraption locked [...]

[Read more →]

From the Sheldon Brown archives comes this crazy hack. Just looking at it blows my mind.

Bruce Ingle is the brains behind the operation and states:
I got the idea for a bichain drive from “The Dancing Chain ” a while ago, finally had some time to get it working on Friday and took it out [...]

[Read more →]

I’ve been disenchanted with our old generic bike trailer’s hitch. It’s a clamp-style hitch that’s a total PITA to get tight. I was ogling used Burley trailers when I started wondering whether I could hack my own Burley-style hitch onto my old generic trailer.
The way the trailer hitched onto a bike always bugged me. The [...]

[Read more →]

One of the most common bike hacks you will see on the streets of Gotham are custom fenders. I have been a pretty big fan of modifying water bottles for fender use for some time. I covered one such a hack in a previous post featuring this first method of fending off road [...]

[Read more →]

I’ve seen a few implementations of a bike-on-a-bike rack, but the Xtracycle really does seem to be made just for this kind of application. This thread on BikeForums has some great shots of a couple of Electras, one with a homemade Xtracycle-mounted bike rack holding the second bike.
The owner of the bikes, Derek (blog), is [...]

[Read more →]

Cyclicio.us points to this fantastic tutorial on making your own rack-mounted hydration system.
The strength of this system is that it keeps the water off your back, the bladder is easily replaced and it’s easy to clean. The tutorial shows the system mounted to a rear rack, but a front mounted rack would probably work [...]

[Read more →]

Reader Jim sent us a great front rack hack (say that three times fast) that involves a hacked milk crate. The full Flickr set with annotations can be found here, and Jim’s blog is over here. Thanks Jim!

[Read more →]