Introduction: 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.
Step 2: Construct Back Wheel.
Lay a third cap under the tab that is not folded over, and break off its tab (the one far right in the picture) repeated bending does this quite well
Step 3: Make the Seat.
Like you made the front wheel, attach the last (but not least) top to the back wheel. To make a seat, fold the tab over towards the other half of the wheel. Fold it back the other way, and back again, same as the first way.
Step 4: Ta Daaa!
Finished!
I have no idea what you would do with it. Have a mini Tour de France?
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Cheers,
Will.
8 Comments
8 years ago
@kelseymh - you can find twist offs and compressed caps in NZ and Australia too! This is just the third option haha
12 years ago on Introduction
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?
Reply 12 years ago on Introduction
I live in New Zealand, south-east of Australia, I know you can get them in Australia also.
Reply 12 years ago on Introduction
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.
Reply 12 years ago on Introduction
I checked the Mac's Brewery site, it has a "co.nz" extension. Certainly in the UK somewhere.
Reply 12 years ago on Introduction
Are you serious?
Reply 12 years ago on Introduction
Ooops...
Heh, it was late. We all make mistakes.
12 years ago on Introduction
I was thinking the same questions but it really is a neat trick