Balance bike

My sister is expecting her first born in a couple of weeks, so what present to give....?
So I build her this balance bike

-full CrMo, home build frame and forks
-custom handlebars
-oury's
-BMX mini seat
-plastic wheels
-inspired on old school female race frames

To check the size, I asked a colleagues kid to try it....

Hipsters and their spoks.. sheesh, i dunno. :)

That's awesome.

Ha . . wicked

bitchin, i bought my little nephew a wooden one a couple weeks back. if i knew, would've got you to do another :(

http://skuut.com.au/

That's awesome!

Love the oury's and the track dropouts!

that is very smart. Might be a wee while til the kid can ride it though, if s/he's not even born yet?!

From those dropouts, I'd guess it's a steamroller.

Roadie: "I see you're saving a lot of weight there by losing the pedals, cranks and bb."
Hipster: "See man, I can wear my limited edition ConverseReboPumpNikes without worry about daggy SPDs or clips and straps"
MTBer: "Clearance for rocks dude, sick air, everyone'll be rockin' this setup soon"

Right, can I commission a 56cm version? I'll also need a large backpack mounted high-output fan, or a long downhill.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Draisine_or_Laufmaschine%2C_around_1820._Archetype_of_the_Bicycle._Pic_01.jpg/220px-Draisine_or_Laufmaschine%2C_around_1820._Archetype_of_the_Bicycle._Pic_01.jpg

that is very smart. Might be a wee while til the kid can ride it though, if s/he's not even born yet?!
they say ~2yrs age

this is all kinds of awesome. good work.

that is brilliant, well done

Looks absolutely superbe but I think you may want to loose the Oury's as they are pretty big for small hands.

Nobody said fashion was practical.

you should market those, you'd make a mint. slack chain tho.

But does it barspin?

this is awesome!

+1

^^Recon you could prob market the bar/stem to the fixedtricker crowed while your at it.

'course it barspinz - look a how tight the geo is.

Thanks. I had a blast building this thing.

It's gonna be a she! But you can't get them hooked on bikes soon enough, can you. And I just like to be the favorite uncle of course... She'll probably be able to ride it at the age of two, so that gives me time to build her her first real bike.

Dropouts are home made as well, they were supposed to go on my own frame, but this got in between.

Bar/stem combo is going to be tested for strenght soon, i'm currently finishing a fixed/singlespeed (still have to decide on that) for myself with that setup.

brilliant, joyful stuff right there.
better than the PUKYS I use even, you might want to add a front brake from 3 and a half years for a bit better control skills, but yeah awesome work.
If you want to turn any more of these out for £ p.m me.

you should probably get a good lock for it. too many young tealeefs initz.

hot bike yo

how amazing is that.. love it..

love it so much
would you make one for big people, i really quite fancy one

Christening gift...mini Grobag?