Make your bike sound like a motorcycle!!!!

Man up your possibly new way to save gas money or just try to be more noticed by cars or pedestrians, whatever it is you can did this to any bike with spokes and with stuff you see about everyday.

WATCH THE VIDEO TO LISTEN TO THE BIKE!!

Step 1: Get your stuff!

you will need:

Scissors
Playing card
Mask tape or Blue painters tape (not pictured)

Comments

[jongscx]

Another thing to think about, you can "tune" it by moving the card either towards or away from the center.

The closer it is, the lower the frequency because the inner part of the tire moves "slower" than the outer part and "thwaps" the card slower.

Near the edge of the tire, it's moving rather quickly and will even begin to buzz and drone.

[dkingsbury]

this is cool I saw something like this on Vat19.com
http://www.vat19.com/dvds/turbospoke-bicycle-exhaust-system.cfm

[cenglish4]

cool, but all u really have to do is run over a can with ur back tire, make sure its stuck, then drive and that works fine too

[kdw2060]

as kids, we always used laundry-clips to attach the cards in stead of tape

[mark429]

that's how we did it back in the 80's ;-)

[1990cujo]

i tried this when i was young never worked

[melraeart]

i used to do this when i was a kid all the time. hahaha good memories!

[K1TK4T 117]

i accidently did this yesterday, i got a leaf stuck in my tires and because it was a dry 1 it sounded just like a bike! im gona do uit properly 2day

[the_burrito_master]

I do this all the time but I use duct tape and cut up milk jugs way more sound from one of those.

[HADJISTYLLIS]

 It sounds like Harley-Davidson!

[cambigfoot]

true!

[elgin99]

I am a kid and I love doing this but my cards keep falling off! I tried using water bottles. They fall out so I tied them and now my bike looks like crap! I NEED HELP!

[beyondimagination]

cut a slit in the card so the tape can fit inside of it then make figure 8's with the tape so the card is taped to the frame within the card.

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[sharlston]

you could also use a zip tie

[arapahochris]

Nice to see an old idea come back, as kids in the early 1960s we used to all do this. Still a fun idea and maybe now a good safety device to warn pedestrians!

[Mister E]

Yo! Try using a square piece of plastic cut from one of those thin green flower pots. RrrrrRRRRrrr! Caveat: might do a number on your spokes after a while.

[beyondimagination]

The reason that i advise NOT to use plastic is actually because that it can loosen your spokes.

[Bright Shadow]

sounds nice, though I'm aiming for something lower pitched

[beyondimagination]

Try it with a thin zip tie.

[Bright Shadow]

*nods* I see what you mean...

[harley_rly]

it would be pretty cool to try adding multiple cards and maybe have some them double stacked so theres two cards on some of them

[beyondimagination]

you can put as many cards as you want, in different spots, if you stack cards together you will get a weird sound. I put like 8 in different spots and it was really loud.

[tacopsp]

freaking cool , im going to do that

[beyondimagination]

Hey thanks, happy you like it.