Recent content by MaddMatt

Dude, this is awesome. It reminds me of when people use beer kegs for gas tanks on hotrods.

Found this children's bike here in Tucson. It has a Centrix coaster brake hub made in west germany. The tank and seat tube can be moved to convert to a girls bike. Has solid rubber tires. No other markings other then "coaster brake" on the chain guard and a serial number hand stamped on the...

Here in Tucson every november we have a HUGE bike race. El Tour De Tucson, 109 miles, across the various Arizonan dessert. People come from around the world for this race. There is a few shorter sections of the race as well. 109 mile, 68 mile, 35 mile, and a 12 mile kiddie cruise. We're...

no idea. i'm sure you can find something on google if you dig enough

take a look at these designs. There are some pretty good photos of the construction and most of these guys get up to speeds of 40+ mph on bicycle tires. It's a myspace page so you'll have to have one to view the photos. http://www.myspace.com/aigrf Also check out the videos at...

through my experience, trike based gravity racers are extremely dangerous. SFVISBF has the most lax rules out of everyone and the trike design was the first to get an official ban. The problem with trike designs is the handling. When your reach about 25-35 mph and try to turn the weight...

Re: "THE GET LUCKY" Great innovation. I love the ribs, may have to borrow that idea in the future. It's no fun to build something safe, you have to have the possiblity of being maimed!!! p.s. Your headlight made me laugh.

Look at how close that was!

I ran into an artist that makes those down in san diego. It was at a car show and he had 5 of them there. A t-bird, bel air, impala, le saber, and a caddy.

I really like the second and third ones. Thanks for the close up shot of the third one. That's totally in my abilities.

Would someone like to post a how to on boardtrack forks? I've seen a few on here, some home made. I have a motorbike project and I was just going to weld truss rods to it. But if there is a more detailed way of going about it that would be great.

I'm not too fond of this idea because of the way I view custom cars. I've always seen "Traditional rods" the way it's grown from the 50's. I when I think of traditional I think of shiny paint, flame jobs, nice upholsty, chrome and tons of money dropped into it. When I think Ratrod I think of...

It's getting pretty close!!! WOOOO!!!!

That is the coolest book rack I've ever seen.

My votes went to those who had a lot of kustom work balanced with overall style. The big fabricators took my votes. Didn't vote for myself. I never can.