Repurposing Vintage Bicycle Parts

[bikeworkshop]

They all look new and unused

 

[27motorhead]

They all look new and unused

Good point! What a waste of perfectly good rims. Unless they were donated by brakeless fixie riders?!

 

[Betsy]

They were a bunch of old / odd / damaged rims they found in the stockroom, they would struggle to sell them so repurposed them.

Lots of chamfering of edges required to stop them snagging on clothing. Like the idea, but might not be that practical to use in reality, unless you have a huge collection of waist coats?!*

A little rub around the edges with 80grit sandpaper to remove the burrs should suffice.. but that aside for the moment..

Jesus flipping christ @27motorhead !.. this isn't the Dieter Rams award for industrial design and innovation, it's a thread for upcycling bike parts.. i'd suggest non of these submissions would be equally as practical as their purposely designed counterparts... and why? because they're made of flipping bike parts!

 

[27motorhead]

They were a bunch of old / odd / damaged rims they found in the stockroom, they would struggle to sell them so repurposed them.



A little rub around the edges with 80grit sandpaper to remove the burrs should suffice.. but that aside for the moment..

Jesus flipping christ @27motorhead !.. this isn't the Dieter Rams award for industrial design and innovation, it's a thread for upcycling bike parts.. i'd suggest non of these submissions would be equally as practical as their purposely designed counterparts... and why? because they're made of flipping bike parts!

The problem is, is that I am an industrial designer and can’t help but analyse how we use stuff/interact with it! It’s ingrained into my thinking as well as how good something looks.

I think rim sections make nice structural elements for mobiles (the things that hang from ceilings!) pretty sure one of the mags in the 90s made a cool one with tasty CNC’d bits dangling from them.

 

[bikeworkshop]

Sometimes the repurposing is the actual purpose itself...

https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/chris-king-classic-hub-shakers-new.7825/

 

[highlandsflyer]

The problem is, is that I am an industrial designer and can’t help but analyse how we use stuff/interact with it! It’s ingrained into my thinking as well as how good something looks.

I think rim sections make nice structural elements for mobiles (the things that hang from ceilings!) pretty sure one of the mags in the 90s made a cool one with tasty CNC’d bits dangling from them.

Why would you want to hang clothes from your ceiling?

 

[27motorhead]

Why would you want to hang clothes from your ceiling?

Joking aside, ceiling hung clothes airers/Shelia maids are a great way to dry clothes indoors quickly as hot air rises. Especially if hung near a woodburner/heat source! You can dry a load of washing in a couple of hours… and stylistically could rock a 90s retro MTB vibe!

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

Why would you want to hang clothes from your ceiling?

Exactly. I hang mine on the floor-drobe.