/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>205682
You drank hundreds of cans of mountain dew....disgusting.. what are you 12?

Pretty banging bro.

I quite literally just made this out of a cinnamon mints box

>>205686
>>205687
you have a template?
(a how-to)

bravo, op

bravo

>>205699
sorry dude- no template, just lots of trial an error.

>>205690
Does that open up?

>>205713
Yeah

The most white trash house I have ever seen, OP.

>>205879
dude, that tile floor is classy as fuck

Have a mattress but no bed? No problem!

>>205913

I'll bet $5 that OP outgrows his embarrassing college-student furniture, and chucks it out within a couple of years from now.

>>205941
As a college student I would probably end up getting new furniture when i moved out of my college town anyway. I personally like his ghetto shit and think its perfect for college. Bitches love that kinda shit and it gives you something to talk to them about pre-coitus.

Get this stupid shit off of /diy/

This isn't making stuff, its jamming garbage into spaces.

i made my tallbike.
it was a lot better at one time, but i hit a car and now my front fork is fucked up. it works best backwards.

>>206005
I want this bike. I do not want any of the MD stuff.

>>206019
you can make one yourself.
you need 2 bicycles and an extra metal bar.
as for tools, you just need a grinder and a welding kit.
me, i don't know shit about welding, someone else helped me out there. but i cut the bikes, painted them, and set up everything else by myself.

>>206023
I always wonder how you would climb on top. It seems like it would be difficult.

>>206028
nah, it's simple. i got it down after maybe 10 minutes.
all it is is you start out with both hands on each handlebar. NOT the seat. that's the mistake everyone makes before i correct them. then go far a little jogging start, put your opposite foot from the bike on the bottom frames' top bar, and swing your other leg over.
i don't know anything about horses, but i've been told it's basically the same as mounting a horse.

i got the inspiration to make my bike after meeting some cool dudes from LA at SXSW.
they make custom bieks and ride cross country & shit. it's awesome.
here's a video of them.
http://vimeo.com/23022581

>>206005
>>206019
>>206023
>>206028
>>206030

I finished my own tallbike just two hours ago. I rode it around for a few hours last weekend, then I decided to bolt a car battery and lights from a police car to it.

I get about two feet, came crashing down and fucked up my knee really good. Its really top heavy, and hard to get it moving with that big lead acid battery.

The pan has gotten better, and I can limp at at a reasonable speed, but the worrying thing is this crazy spasm in one of the muscles of my lower leg if I put weight on it the wrong way.

>>205690

Do you have a how to? this is so interesting

>>206034
i've heard of some people taking nasty falls from tallbikes, and even just normal bikes.
i'm really lucky, i guess. i've fallen off many times and this is the worst i've gotten (see pic).
the worst potential accident i had was when i was going to turn at an intersection, and i hit a car because i wasn't paying attention and that road usually had no traffic. i have no brakes on mine, so i couldn't stop the back tire with my foot in time and hit the car dead on and flipped over it. i was completely fine though. the car was too. all that was messed up was my front tire and my fork.

>>206040 hit a car because i wasn't paying attention and that road usually had no traffic

I did the exact same thing two summers ago. I had nothing but bruises, but the car's windshield, hood, and bumper were smashed up. I had to pay the driver $2300. I should have just taken off, but a lot of bystanders insisted I wait for paramedics (cops) to check me out, and they took my info.

>>206042
that sucks. i was so fucking lucky. i was completely okay, i landed on my ass and hopped right up, and the car was literally spotless. no idea how it worked out like that. it was actually a really exciting experience, kinda glad it happened. i have a cool story to tell now.
but yeah, i'd say because i was riding my tallbike and not my normal bike, i was probably safer. since i was so high up, i just went over the car, not under it.

>tall bikes

I can't even ride across the Hawthorne bridge on heavy traffic days without having a panic attack. I can't imagine doing it on a deathtrap like that

>inb4 implying all tall bike riders are Portlandfags

Do you fags even have spoilers

>>206057
i know some Portland tallbike riders. but most of 'em i've met were either from LA or Austin.

this is an mspaint drawing of my next project.
it's a surfbike. basically the platform in between the seat and the handlebars i can stand on when i'm just cruisin' downhill or whathaveyou.
oh, and the giant box on the back with be my speaker. you gotta have music if you're going to be travelling cross country.

>>206074
the inspiration behind this one is 2 bikes i've seen.
rex hazard's surfbike (left), and nate clukey's tallsoundbike (right).
both people i met at SXSW.

>>205914
i have thousands of flat packed boxes like this at work
I WILL MAKE A FORT!

I turned an old shorted-out Hammond into a Leslie cab with stompbox :D

>>206102
are you kidding me? what kind of dumbass would do that???

>>206034

not putting the battery on the lower frame. shiggidy diggity

I just got a epic flashback from when i was atalented /diy/er.

my dads work delt with alot of boxes that they just stored in a room about the size of a small indoor basketball court

I had a shitton of fun making forts and shit in a room full of boxes 4 times my hight ( i was like 3ft back then )

>>206122
The rear triangle of the top frame just made a simple place to stick the battery. It's still forwards of the rear axle, so it doesn't make falling over backwards any worse than before.

I think if the next test ride ends in disaster I'll weld a platform for the battery under the bottom frame.

>>206118
What where you saying bitch ?

Wat... does this thread live again? How even... ok

Chopped an old shorted-out transistor Hammond and made a Leslie amp cab :D

>>206102
/fit/ here, that is honestly fucking retarded. Enjoy your non-adjustable dumbbells with practically no weight