 Re: learn as you go
I bought this rust bucket 16 bike at the thrift store for a dollar. I hoped that the rear wheel could be salvaged. I was wrong of course. The rust had invaded the rear wheel INSIDE. Pretty bad shape. Everything is rust frost so I'm going to trash it. I was going to make a small scooter from it for my grandson but Becky(my wife) vetoed that idea. Heck he is five years old he needs an e-scooter.
So I'm about to trash it when something struck me. The most expensive (by the pound at least) thing I am buying these days is the motor mount. I can cut the rear wheel hangers from the bike and weld them to a flat piece of metal from the hardware store and make my own hang on motor mount. That's one of the buying the one from the scooter store. You buy it, adapt it, then steal the design sorta.... The best inventions are not brand new, just an improvement on someone's idea. So today it's "Mr. Roto zip meets rust bucket" sounds like a bad drive in movie. I wonder if I should make a movie like the great Texas chainsaw massacre and do it with a roto zip. The great North Carolina Roto Zip massacre, sounds like an great idea. Of course getting the victims to stand still long enough might be a problem.
Last edited by deacon : 07-25-2009 at 06:49 AM.
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