Ever thought about riding an office chair straight to the office? Well, if you have then here’s your chance to take a ride on the wild side. The custom built chair fitted with wheels was made in honor of bike to work day.
This is actually an easy to make system. You can use regular bike wheels and really comfy office chair weighing 35 pounds only. I think the idea is fabulous. It only takes about 5 steps to make this custom fitted bike. Here’s how it works:
Step 1: First, you start off with a cardboard cutout of lower leg and torso. This will help you look for a perfect riding position. This way you don’t ruin your back or other bones of your body by riding the bike in a weird position.
Step 2: Now it’s time for some drill fun. You can use a cylindrical drill bit in order to cut off the bike’s down tube. This can be pretty complex. So, please use caution. Otherwise you might find yourself drilling in your hand.
Step 3: After drilling, it’s time for welding. You can put the tubes together for welding the support. Cut the unnecessary parts of the frame off for ease of construction.
Step 4 This step is probably the most crucial step out of all. Why? In this step, you weld everything together. Although I am no welding expert, I have heard that 110 volt MIG welder works pretty good for this kind of job. MIG stands for Metal, Inert gas shield.
The step 5 of the process involves reinforcing everything on the bike. This means that you are adding extra support so that the bike can support the weight of the chair along with that of a rider. Also, you can add the office chair in this step and make sure it’s not falling off the bike.
There you go! You now have a Office chair bike ready for it’s first trial run. The best part about this kind of ‘gadget’ is it can be built at home with very little investment. Bottomline is it’s cheap.
I always loved do-it-yourself projects like these. I suspect you might get weird looks while out on the street. But, who cares? You made it. So you ride it.
Image Credits: Instructables
Source Link: Makezine
