Wine barrels may seem like an odd material to make bikes out of, butLance Rakedoesn’t like the fact that wine barrels are often just thrown away. Instead, he wants use wine barrels to create cruiser bikes, and he’s already built one.
Rake is a professor of Industrial Design at the University of Kansas, and previously built a DIY kit that allows Indian entrepreneurs to build bamboo bikes using simple tools.
According to新地图集,a trip to California inspired Rake when he saw furniture made from old wine barrel staves.
“The curved lines of the wood reminded me of a bamboo bike I did a while ago, and I thought, ‘I could translate that fairly easily into a bicycle frame,'” he told新地图集在北美手工自行车展上。
为了回应他的灵感，Rake创建了一个原型，该原型完全由葡萄酒桶制成。自行车的木材的变色来自酿酒师，烧焦着每个桶的内部，以增加葡萄酒的味道。木材还从葡萄酒中获得了额外的污渍。
Rake自行车所以我设计的t could be made in a DIY-format, where buyers would bolt the frame members together. The bike has a two-speed coaster-brake rear hub, and Rake wants to add a derailleur.
Rake wants this to be open sourced to woodworkers in wine regions so they can generate revenue by using old wine barrels and selling them as kits or assembled bikes.
“I could see how on winery tours or something, you should be riding on a wine barrel bike,” he said.
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