Chillin' PTKSR: Flotation Four 5 gallon jugs, no center float..yet.. end of BFG Season #1
Bounce For Glory is at last comfy and stable for the Flotation Test Regatta, Day 2
of Port Townsend, Washington's Kinetic Sculpture Race
Parts not intended...red curved rear side rails are satellite dish supports, oarlocks are bike pedals, traction mud cleats are irrigation pipe chunks bolted to bike treads held together by old nylon drapery cord,rear wheel bearings are hand cart/dolly wheels, 4 floats are old water 5 gal. jugs, tires are discarded $300 Hoosier sprint car tires, used for @ an hour each, rear tire mounted to rim @ 1 foot too narrow, front wheel clamped to 2 BMX bike wheels drawn together by garage door opener pull brace welded to agricultural plow wheel supports, brake made from scooter floorboard bolted to Nordic Trac brace bolted to bike seat post w/ chunk of sprint car tire bolted on as brake shoe, plus much, much more! Cost, @ $2.00 in bolts. Kinetic chicken stencils made from cereal box cardboard. Stencils also used for spray paint tattoos...!!
Photo by Druid Labs.
3 years later, water technique fully developed...:38 to 1:06...
www.youtube.com/user/Whymcycle#p/a/f/0/KqmD15rVAcw
Ten racing seasons later, how it gets aquatic, in and out of the brine:
Chillin' PTKSR: Flotation Four 5 gallon jugs, no center float..yet.. end of BFG Season #1
Bounce For Glory is at last comfy and stable for the Flotation Test Regatta, Day 2
of Port Townsend, Washington's Kinetic Sculpture Race
Parts not intended...red curved rear side rails are satellite dish supports, oarlocks are bike pedals, traction mud cleats are irrigation pipe chunks bolted to bike treads held together by old nylon drapery cord,rear wheel bearings are hand cart/dolly wheels, 4 floats are old water 5 gal. jugs, tires are discarded $300 Hoosier sprint car tires, used for @ an hour each, rear tire mounted to rim @ 1 foot too narrow, front wheel clamped to 2 BMX bike wheels drawn together by garage door opener pull brace welded to agricultural plow wheel supports, brake made from scooter floorboard bolted to Nordic Trac brace bolted to bike seat post w/ chunk of sprint car tire bolted on as brake shoe, plus much, much more! Cost, @ $2.00 in bolts. Kinetic chicken stencils made from cereal box cardboard. Stencils also used for spray paint tattoos...!!
Photo by Druid Labs.
3 years later, water technique fully developed...:38 to 1:06...
www.youtube.com/user/Whymcycle#p/a/f/0/KqmD15rVAcw
Ten racing seasons later, how it gets aquatic, in and out of the brine: