Hello Internet only gone and got myself a blue mountain bike from the scrapyard for £10
Got myself a challenge emulator I'm sure this was
a fantastic bike back in its day. Now what am I gonna do with it?
Well, I was looking at some mountain bikes and you see them these days with shock absorbers
over them and stuff like that, and I thought what if a bike was made entirely from Springs?
It would literally be suss suss suspension! So I'm gonna cut all these tubes out. I'm gonna
replace it with Springs! One of those ideas that makes no sense whatsoever!
Hello I'd like to order some springs! No they are not replacing anything, what is it for?
I'll tell you what, I'll go on your website I'll order
some stuff and then we'll take it from there...
but you've been very useful thank you very much mr. spring man thank you very much.
Right Springs have turned up. Turns out you can't buy Springs the exact length,
and diameter of these choose about random custom built and that would somewhat blow the budget.
and what is clearly one of my more stupid ideas so we're gonna have to stick two together,
put them in like that, we'll ever weld them up
or stick like a bit of a rod or something in between them.
They're a bit floppy because I said "Can I have
the stiffest ones you make" and of course immediately
met with a technical question of how many Newton meters of force would you like them to have?
yeah, so, stick them together, put those inside the tube top and bottom,
these one's might go over the top and
then I've got some smaller ones for the chain stays and the seat stays,
and then the forks, think we are gonna need some stiffer ones for the forks!
But who knows, it might be a challenge to ride but that is the question, will it be rideable?
Look just stop asking why, all right just go with it, it could
be the best idea anyone's ever had on a bike! You're not actually supposed to weld Springs,
but I think for what I'm doing here we cannot worry about that too much!
Are the Springs gonna fit in! No I need to prong them open a little bit.
If this thing is even remotely rideable
in about an hour I will be shocked! look at that! Let's do the rest of it.
Well that's not gonna work won't even hold itself up let alone when I get on it. So I
have to make it a bit stiffer, rather than it going inside the tubes I want to adopt
a similar method to this so the bit that I've cut out I'm going to weld on the ends,
put it in, make the spring stiffer and then hope for the best!
All right, what do I think now? Is it gonna work? I won't really know till
I do this one. I know once I chop that one... Bwrrrh. what are you doing Colin?
why are you spending your life making a bicycle of Springs? this is never gonna work.
and even if it does work it will not be better than what this not made of spring!
Oh Colin what a surprise your spring bike is not working! I do actually quite like this
for some reason, so I am gonna persist and order some custom made Springs and I'm just gonna keep
going now until I get something which I can just about ride yeah! That's what I'm doing,
waste of money maybe, I'm enjoy myself! "hello please can I have some stronger Springs? thank
you! we gotta ourselves some custom Springs! Yes so they're the right internal diameter and
the right length. Are they any stiffer... a little bit! Not much because of course
you know the dude on the end of the phone was like how stiff do you want them to be?
I want them to be stiff and then if this is
not stiff enough will get another one! Yes this bikes turned into a
money pit! Some youtubers by Lamborghinis I just took all my earnings into Springs!
righty-ho still no better off right we're gonna get some even stiffer springs in these,
because you know with I'm starting to smell a hint
of success. yeah yeah I know you can't believe it but I do!
mm-hmm! It's all right I think the solution has arrived!
Look at these big fat beauties! These are all right, super stiff,
these ain't gonna be flopping around no! I think we should get these on.
Oh Colin I smell a little bit of success in this project.... I can't say anything!
okay I have hit a new level of confidence I have taken the crank off I've ground
everything down smooth, I'm gonna fully weld this thing up because if these don't
work the next stiffest thing is a tube- but we can't go there can we! I mean it's gonna look
pretty pretty meaty if nothing else. bang we have a bicycle and it's semi springing.
Right let's get these welded, let's get it on and then pray pray to the Lord of
bicycles that we have created something new, not necessarily better, but new!
I could see you've started to gain a little bit of confidence in this project. hey! I can see,
I can tell! I'm vibing it I'm like the audience they've started to come
around to this Colin! yes I need to turn the screen round you can't say my head.
This this is light oh maybe there are not stiff enough!
seat back in, moment of truth people moment of truth! oh yes yeah yeah oh bike which kind
of has a mind of its own but is still a bike! right we need to get the chain on,
need to go for a ride! I just keep the faith!
I knew I'd get there, I think about 400 pound on Springs later it may be 5!
Given it a paint job and it looks like superman pants!
Are you rideable?
Now I did try and do more of the frame, tried to do the seat stays,
but the whole thing just kept collapsing!
You can imagine I've had enough of Springs. I can't ride any flatland
on it and it seems to have like an antique bunnyhop system built into it.
It does have a habit doing that! it doesn't like chains. Once you get used
to it it rides just like a normal bike. It just does weird things.
cuz it's a bicycle of Springs!
so what exactly have I made here? Well I think
I'll put it in the same box as the cake-o-matic and the bin stomper...
but I quite like it!