Bicycle Taxidermy

Cute idea for a crashed bike.

http://bicycletaxidermy.com/

Though... always the thrifty one, I don't think I'd mount anything that was still functional and could be butchered onto a new project.

I saw that and it made me smile. I think I will end up stealing this idea.

Like you though, I'm too much of a hoarder to throw away anything that might prove useful later.

Mind you, there are always those bars, you know, the ones you know in you heart that you are NEVER going to use. Like the oversized Specialized alloy drops my friend gave me - I hate using drops, and they are completely the wrong shape to cut into bullhorns. I could use them.

And there is also the old heavy chromed steel stuff that comes off vintage frames (got at least 4 of those in the Man Shed in various states of rebuild at the moment). Some of it is worth saving, but some is just too lumpy to reuse and might make a better ornament than take up space in the parts bin.

It'd be more effective if one were to get an angle grinder and cut off the headtube of the bike - then you could mount the headtube, headset, stem and bars complete (you'd have to glue the lot together since there'd be no fork steerer).

I kept a cracked high-flange Campagnolo hub for ages because I wanted to make a bottle opener out of it. I never got around to it and eventually sold it, though.

http://www.missionmission.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/bullhorn.png

There's a better picture of the range in this link...

http://www.yatzer.com/Bicycle-Taxidermy-by-Regan-Appleton

looks like something taxi drivers would have on their walls TBH

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from: http://www.bikehacks.com