Make your bike roar like a motorcycle using just a piece of plastic!
This is an old trick my Dad taught me, though I'm sure many of you have done this before. It will make your bike make a sound like a motorcycle when you go, and the faster you go, the louder it gets!
Stuff you'll need:
A piece of plastic, like an ice cream bucket lid.
Tape, duct tape works best, remember, this is on your bike so it will be outside.
A bike, of course.
Could someone make a video with the sound of this thing? I would make one myself but I'm on dial-up so I can't upload video.
This is an old trick my Dad taught me, though I'm sure many of you have done this before. It will make your bike make a sound like a motorcycle when you go, and the faster you go, the louder it gets!
Stuff you'll need:
A piece of plastic, like an ice cream bucket lid.
Tape, duct tape works best, remember, this is on your bike so it will be outside.
A bike, of course.
Could someone make a video with the sound of this thing? I would make one myself but I'm on dial-up so I can't upload video.
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For the piece of plastic, an ice cream bucket lid works great. Other reasonably stiff pieces of plastic will work too, but make sure you don't use one that's too stiff or it might damage the spokes on your bike. I couldn't find an ice cream lid when I started making this instructable, so I used two bendier sour cream lids (I later found an ice cream lid, that's what the yellow ones are from).
Get the piece of plastic, and cut out a piece about four inches long by one inch wide. You can make multiple ones too, it might make it louder (I've never used more than one at once though).
Get the piece of plastic, and cut out a piece about four inches long by one inch wide. You can make multiple ones too, it might make it louder (I've never used more than one at once though).
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made the one in my pics out of a small chocolate tin with a removable lid. a flat piece of very tough polyethylene storage tub plastic goes thru it in a slot. Inside a bit of wood traps the flapper and it is scrwed so it won't come out. lid is screwd on also with self tapping metal screws. The box is mounted to bike back frame with a bent bit of old door hinge.
This one I made is 20 X louder than the old playing card ones we had!
My nephew rides the bike and you can hear him coming 1/2 a block away!!
PS acommercial " exhaust pipe is in toy shops with a faux plastic exhaust attached. This one blows it out the water!
Cost nil old junk value guys. Hope the vid works etc.
Tassie 2 Australia
The two holes in side are about 3/4 inch diameter punched into tin with wad punch.
The flapper is like a double finger shape where it catches the spokes. by changing the shape and hang past on spokes, and also the flapper materials you can alter the sounds. The commercial one has 3 or 4 different cards you snap into a holder for different sounds. A video on u tube shows that one. This one .. advantages,,, cheap and cheerful. made of junk. what more could a noisy young Fonzie want!
PS the bike is a really neat bmx with simulated motorbike fairings, swingarm type rear end, disc brakes, and adjustable centre rear coil strut suspension.
Cost me 30 bucks from a charity shop down under!
The great things kids these days have to play with !
tassie2 (a 50yo old fart tinkerer from aussie! )
This would be fun to do to my bike and take it to the Velodrome (track)
The people would freak out as I went ripping past them with this thing installed!
Great instructable