Here’s another bicycle reuse. This time its Moz who, among other things, adapts old bicycles to become new load-bearing human powered vehicles like this one.
Often this kind of adaption is a prototype for building these designs from scratch, as with the development of the long bike into one less ute.
We were delighted to get an email from Ben Denham (thanks for the kind remarks) where he sent us some links to sites about bicycle powered machines. Mayapedal produce bikes, trailers etc, but also a range of bicycles adaptively reused to power machines
that perform a range of agricultural tasks like dehusking,
pumping water,
even washing clothes.
Our favourite [...]
The world is full of products that, for their pointless waste of the world’s resources, should have earned their manufacturers a community service sentence in an impoverished third world country to assist them in regaining a grip on reality.
The battery powered pooper scooper for cleaning the cat tray is a typical example (and for even [...]
Like George Bush, Australia’s Prime Minister John Howard is multi-skilled, he’s a climate criminal as well as a war criminal. In fact when most thinking people have seen climate change as an urgent issue for the last ten years he has sabotaged every effort to deal with it….but we’ll leave that discussion for his trial [...]
I had never heard of the amazing “norry”, the bamboo railway of Battambang province, Cambodia, until a few nights ago when it was on ABC’s Foreign Correspondent programme, so I googled it and discovered I was probably the last person in the world to hear about it. Check out this tourist blog, for instance, where [...]
The current redevelopment of East Darling Harbour to create some of the most expensively mediocre real estate in Sydney also produced an attempted piece of culture history whitewashing, the renaming of Hickson Road. This roadway surrounded by cliffs and warehouses has always been colloquially known as The Hungry Mile in memory of the [...]
We love the Yes Men and we love the way they adaptively reuse, for good, the stolen identities of some of the biggest bastards on the planet.
Andy of the Yes men once appeared before a Sydney accountancy conference as a World Trade Organisation representative to announce a new direction. As they explained….
The World Trade Organisation [...]
