Comments on: Pop-up bike trailer http://boingboing.net/2013/01/02/pop-up-bike-trailer.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 22 May 2013 21:20:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: nixiebunny http://boingboing.net/2013/01/02/pop-up-bike-trailer.html#comment-1619305 nixiebunny Wed, 02 Jan 2013 22:56:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=203530#comment-1619305 Executive summary: There are a lot of lovely computer drawings of what such a trailer might look like if it were manufactured with fancy welded aluminum box-channel frame. No trailer exists as yet. Executive summary: There are a lot of lovely computer drawings of what such a trailer might look like if it were manufactured with fancy welded aluminum box-channel frame. No trailer exists as yet.

]]> By: sarahnocal http://boingboing.net/2013/01/02/pop-up-bike-trailer.html#comment-1619243 sarahnocal Wed, 02 Jan 2013 21:47:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=203530#comment-1619243 This video is pretty much unwatchable..panning, zooming and sped up I couldn't get through it. I scanned ahead and never did see any trailer, and I could hardly understand what anyone said. This video is pretty much unwatchable..panning, zooming and sped up I couldn’t get through it. I scanned ahead and never did see any trailer, and I could hardly understand what anyone said.

]]> By: Hannukah Dreidl http://boingboing.net/2013/01/02/pop-up-bike-trailer.html#comment-1619062 Hannukah Dreidl Wed, 02 Jan 2013 18:51:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=203530#comment-1619062 Another Maker project failing the Bechdel Test.  Another Maker project failing the Bechdel Test. 

]]> By: nixiebunny http://boingboing.net/2013/01/02/pop-up-bike-trailer.html#comment-1619011 nixiebunny Wed, 02 Jan 2013 17:52:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=203530#comment-1619011 This is a great idea! Now all they need is to find a carpenter who likes the idea enough to devote some spare time to it. I have no idea why they think that $8K would be needed to build this. It's the sort of thing that a tinkerer would do in a couple months of weekends and evenings for free, just for the sense of accomplishment. Fifty years ago, you'd see plans for this sort of thing published in the back pages of Popular Mechanics magazine. This is a great idea! Now all they need is to find a carpenter who likes the idea enough to devote some spare time to it.

I have no idea why they think that $8K would be needed to build this. It’s the sort of thing that a tinkerer would do in a couple months of weekends and evenings for free, just for the sense of accomplishment.

Fifty years ago, you’d see plans for this sort of thing published in the back pages of Popular Mechanics magazine.

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