Atomic Zombie Extreme Machines

Atomic Zombie Extreme Machines are making a small business out of the homebuilt enthusiast, offering various books and plans for garage experimenters. Their gallery of project bikes is very cool. Bicycle Builder's Bonanaza looks very good., offering a number of really good bike plans.

Homebuilt Recumbent Bikes

Steve's Recumbent Bicycle Projects is a great web site for homebuilt recumbent bikes, some of them make largely out of wood.

Cyclecide Bikes are Way Cool

While listening to a Bikescapes podcast I learned about Cyclecide: "The heavy pedal bike rodeo." Not sure what all the troop does, but they certainly have some utterly unique bikes.

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Robert

Xtracycle Sport Utility Bicycle (SUB)

On Green Street today Rick and I saw this Xtracycle, essentially a kit or bike you can buy that extends the wheel base by fixing an extension where the rear wheel would be. This creates a cool, heavy hauler that can add saddles and such to allow for carrying all manner of equipment. Pretty cool. This bike is also a single gear.

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Robert

Prof. Gary Cziko with 1969 Peugeot PX10

This is Prof. Gary Cziko from UIUC with his Peugeot PX10, now a fixed-gear with wheels from freeze-thaw, on a bike he once rode from NY to Oregon. Gary is multitalented to say the least: a very active academic who also plays jazz, cycles, runs community internet radio for language learning, and on and on.

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Robert

1 of a Kind at UIUC

Pretty amazing home-made recumbent I saw on the UIUC campus. I'd like to get some video of this bike actually rolling down the road--need to see it to believe it. very cool

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Robert