Comments on: Steampunk bicycle from Roger Wood

By: Funk Daddy

Funk Daddy — Sun, 27 May 2012 15:34:00 +0000

Love her work, but lately waiting a month for a new strip is painful

By: taugust

taugust — Sat, 26 May 2012 22:27:00 +0000

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.

By: John Smith

John Smith — Sat, 26 May 2012 16:54:00 +0000

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

By: Andy Dingley

Andy Dingley — Sat, 26 May 2012 16:50:00 +0000

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/

By: Ralph Feik

Ralph Feik — Sat, 26 May 2012 14:22:00 +0000

(3rd pic) Cool. Great work, but I think more ‘ ’40s streamline’ gone rampant.

By: Ray Perkins

Ray Perkins — Sat, 26 May 2012 10:17:00 +0000

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.

By: noah django

noah django — Sat, 26 May 2012 09:18:00 +0000

not steam powered, but there is compressed gas involved….

By: noah django

noah django — Sat, 26 May 2012 07:17:00 +0000

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.

By: crummett

crummett — Sat, 26 May 2012 06:30:00 +0000

I bet it tells the time, too.

By: pjcamp

pjcamp — Sat, 26 May 2012 04:10:00 +0000

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

The steam whistle, however, is totally want.

By: SedanChair

SedanChair — Sat, 26 May 2012 03:42:00 +0000

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b167/unhelpful/steampunk-1.png

By: penguinchris

penguinchris — Sat, 26 May 2012 03:39:00 +0000

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 ;)

By: willionaire

willionaire — Sat, 26 May 2012 02:09:00 +0000

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.

By: tenacious d

tenacious d — Sat, 26 May 2012 01:23:00 +0000

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

By: niktemadur

niktemadur — Sat, 26 May 2012 00:18:00 +0000

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

By: Andrew Singleton

Andrew Singleton — Fri, 25 May 2012 23:56:00 +0000

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.