Playing Cards and Clothes Pegs
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Remember when you were a kid, and you rode your bike for about 22 hours a day, every single day of the summer holidays? Did you ever give your bike a motor sound, by fixing a piece of cardboard to the frame with a clothes peg, so that the spokes would flick it as they went around?
No, not like the cool kids do today:
I mean like this, so as to give your bike some va-va-vooom sound effects:
… well according to this post on Grams Light Bikes (highlighted via cyclelicio.us ), you can now buy a little doo-dah called a TurboSpoke to do the same sort of thing, but now with added volume:
Hmmm… my Inner Seven Year-Old wants one bad.
I mean, seriously, how cool would it be on the Chopper my parents wouldn’t let me have?
This also gets me thinking - how would it sound with a three-spoke carbon wheel? Would that make it a lot less like a Lambretta and more like a Ducatti? Is this reason enough to buy one? At £17.99 , it’d be a whole lot cheaper than a real Ducatti . . .
Maybe not.
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