Steampunk bicycle from Roger Wood

The latest from Roger Wood of Klockwerks: "I was asked to make a kinetic Steampunk sculpture for a show in New York; here it is."

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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Andrew Singleton

I hate to sound elitish/snobbish but that is very ‘lets throw random cogs/dials on and call it steampunk.’ Unattractive to me.

Now had they gone to the trouble of making it look like any of that actually DID something (evenif non-functional.) I’d be singing a different tune.
- http://imcravingpresidency.tumblr.com/ SedanChair
  
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  - http://twitter.com/fossilfuels Funk Daddy
    
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niktemadur

Looking at that portable stereo system, all I can hear in my head is “It’s A Long Way To Tipperary”.
tenacious d

pretty cool…but the detail seems too applied. i think that steampunk is amazing and i love to see how these guys reconsider the pieces they recreate:

http://www.instablogsimages.com/1/2011/06/15/steampunk_bike_nhwff.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qS7lWW64y2s/R0sZOzKNJ_I/AAAAAAAAA7E/VqbunfwlLlo/s400/michauxvelocipede.jpg
http://ridingpretty.com/blog_images/steampunk%20bicycle%20sm.jpg
- penguinchris
  
  That third one is awesome – that’s the aesthetic I think of when I think of Steampunk, but it isn’t, apparently, what most people who make steampunk stuff think of ;)
  - http://www.facebook.com/people/Ralph-Feik/1170766236 Ralph Feik
    
    (3rd pic) Cool. Great work, but I think more ‘ ’40s streamline’ gone rampant.
- noah django
  
  not steam powered, but there is compressed gas involved….
willionaire

While I usually like the work of Mr. Wood, a modern tricycle with period accoutrement added does not true steampunk make. I’m also guessing the only thing kinetic about this is that it’s a working trike; if so, this seems like a bit of a cheat.
pjcamp

I’m not sure why a bicycle needs a phonograph.

The steam whistle, however, is totally want.
http://www.markcrummett.com crummett

I bet it tells the time, too.
noah django

the drivetrain is not connected to any possibility of steam power. I’m not seeing any linkage from the drivetrain to the turntable, either. yep, this is one useless, fancypants piece of decoration.
http://profiles.google.com/westcarleton Ray Perkins

If you look *really* closely, you’ll see it has three wheels, not two. Ergo, not a bicycle. And not steampunk; just assorted old junk slapped on a tricycle.
http://www.facebook.com/andy.dingley1 Andy Dingley

If you want steampunk tricycles, Bristol’s Toybox Theatre has the tricycle, and the clockwork ladies (with charming French accents) to ride it
http://www.toyboxtheatre.co.uk/
John Smith

This guy should get a job a Orange County Choppers, they also like to make costumes for bikes.
taugust

Just to keep the comments pendantic, bicycles are already steampunk– the Saftey Bicycle, as it was then called, is an 1880s product of the Industrial Revolution. As Victorian as the GWR. Any realistic steam-punk setting would have oodles of cyclists– and they wouldn’t be caught dead on this trike.