Reverse steering bike

We're not professional welders, but we attempted to build one of those reverse steering badass bikes. We started with watching internet vids, and a special visit to our favourite scrap metal junkyard. And found there an amazing not even rusty differential . We had two bikes, one adult sized mountainbike, and a kid's bike . And we ended up with this .

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Step 1: Materials

What we used :

- arc welder
- grinder
- F-clamps
- corresponding safety gear
- a pair of non rusted brains

- 2 scrap bikes
- a differential, probably from some car
- scrap metal bars and tubing
- bright yellow painting
- a cool motorbike steering bar
- cool strips cut from inner tubes

sleepydog says: Apr 29, 2012. 9:51 AM

Thats an awesomely weird bike, I love seeing the gears.
My wife asked me why someone would want to build such a thing "Do they want people to crash?". I'd love to learn to ride it.
It's amazing, thanks for sharing.

Gael - Tim (author) in reply to sleepydogApr 29, 2012. 12:45 PM

Yeah, why , why building this bike ? Well, the challenge, maybe ? trying something different? curiosity ? We probably wanted to know if we could build and ride it. And be able to win the bet, if we ever encounter this kind of situation :

noclue1987 in reply to Gael - TimMay 14, 2012. 10:39 PM

never said both wheels had to be on the ground i would ride a wheelie across the box

milesfromneihu in reply to noclue1987Jun 7, 2012. 9:32 PM

02:38 "No wheelies, boys. Have a look!"

milesfromneihu in reply to milesfromneihuJun 7, 2012. 9:35 PM

03:23 "No wheelies, hear?"

Gael - Tim (author) in reply to noclue1987May 15, 2012. 11:04 AM

Yeah, a wheelie is probably the most probable way of winning when you don't know how to ride one... But even when you wheelie you steer for balance so it probably isn't that easy.

diyer8 says: Apr 30, 2012. 5:17 AM

One of the authors is 17, that may explain the raunchy welds :-)

I searched the web for other inverted steering bikes and all I could find were with a gear that made the axis of the handlebar be ahead of the one of the wheel. This design with the differential gears is quite unique, congrats for the creativity guys!

Love to see youngsters getting busy with useless fun constructive projects :-)

Timfee in reply to diyer8Apr 30, 2012. 3:18 PM

mana...

zomfibame says: Apr 30, 2012. 11:59 AM

hee heee; now that is silly. nice brain teaser....... might be good as an anti-theft device too. lol could you imagine if someone tried to ride off on your bike... they would be eating sidewalk pretty quick.

allindsay says: Apr 30, 2012. 9:37 AM

This looks like a great way to get hurt.

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l8nite says: Apr 29, 2012. 9:36 PM

There are a lot of instructables that make me wonder "why" the answer always seems to be, because they could. it looks like a fun project. thank you for sharing

paganwonder says: Apr 29, 2012. 11:32 AM

What an excellent brain exerciser! Could help forestall Alzheimer's!

Gael - Tim (author) in reply to paganwonderApr 29, 2012. 12:42 PM

Not sure someone over 50 would be ready to risk his life trying it :o) . Thanks everyone for commenting !

vincent7520 says: Apr 29, 2012. 11:06 AM

this bike will not be stolen !!!â¦

ou bien si elle est volÃ©e le voleur l'aura mÃ©ritÃ©e !!!â¦

great job !â¦

bravo !â¦

LawnBoy1991 says: Apr 29, 2012. 8:56 AM

That's a pretty nice design guys. Really great job. But man, those welds are raunchy. You don't know anyone who knows how to weld? Even a business, they could probably redo those welds for a really good price.

Gael - Tim (author) in reply to LawnBoy1991Apr 29, 2012. 9:01 AM

Gael: It' just part of the process of learning I believe.
Tim : Yeah, we know . But... building weird bikes is a way to learn welding, so we can build other better weird bikes . But also, building bikes requires welding, and the aim is the bike itself. So we don't wan't someone else to weld for us. But for sure, we shoud find a teacher . And practice more.

Thanks for the comment !