Beer lid bicycle

As long as you can remember how to make it while drunk, it will sure be a good party trick. The ingredients are simple enough; four rip-cap beer lids. And skill. More of the latter.

Step 1 Make front wheel

Attach two caps together as shown, with one inside the other, as in picture two.
One of these tabs will become the handle bars, the other will attach to the back wheel.

Twist one 90 degrees (like the top one in the picture) and fold the little round grip in half (picture three) These will be the handlebars.

Comments

[kelseymh]

Very cute! Great pictures (nicely focused, good matte background), and a clever minimalist writeup.

I just have one question...what, exactly, is a "rip-cap" beer lid? Is it for a bottle? A can? Plastic? In what country or region does one find these things?

[JavaNut13]

I live in New Zealand, south-east of Australia, I know you can get them in Australia also.

[kelseymh]

Thanks! Not something we have in the U.S. or Canada. Here the bottles have compression-fit caps which you remove with a tool. Some bottles are made with threads that the cap is compressed over, and you can twist it off.

[nickodemus]

I checked the Mac's Brewery site, it has a "co.nz" extension. Certainly in the UK somewhere.

[TheAmazingJampie]

Are you serious?

[nickodemus]

Ooops...

Heh, it was late. We all make mistakes.

[l8nite]

I was thinking the same questions but it really is a neat trick