Some of us long for an iron horse and the wind blowing through our hair. (Or on your helmet, if you value the content of your skull.) If fun and head turning are more important to you than speed or practicality, [Make it Extreme] is the bike for you. They mainly used scrap yard parts to build a monorail motorcycle-no wheels, only a rubber track.

[Make it Extreme] is definitely not a newbie to make crazy devices. As always, the whole design and construction are a series of ingenious skills, supplemented by some impressive manufacturing skills. The track is just a car tire with the sidewall cut off. It is mounted on a steel frame that can be adjusted to tension the tracks on the drive wheels and a series of rollers, which are all part of the suspension system.

Power is provided by a 2-stroke 100cc scooter engine and is transmitted to the crawler tracks through drive wheels made from old scuba tanks. What puts this build on top is that all of these are neatly located within the circumference of the track. Only the seats, handlebars and fuel tank are located on the outside of the track. The spikes are as forward as possible, which helps to maintain the center of gravity when parking. It is hardly as bad as those self-balancing electric unicycles, but it is recommended to plan ahead.

Although it is by no means the fastest bike, it does look interesting. The build plan can be used by [Make it Extreme] customers, but good luck, let it be your daily driver. If this is your goal, you may want to consider adding a cover to the track between the seat and the handlebar to prevent your khaki from getting caught on the way to the cubicle farm.

This is [Make it Extreme] project number 0100, and they often show up on Hackaday. Projects range from electric guns to shopping tools, solderless electric bicycle batteries to heightened footwear, and we can’t wait to see what they will come up with next.

This guy has a serious road rash in the future! ! !

The track is close to the scrotum, which makes me a little uneasy. I think id prefers the framework there.

I always thought this guy and Colin Fruz) We are reliable candidates for the Darwin Prize, but so far they have proven me wrong.

Colin Fruz has children, so even if he is killed, he will not apply for the Darwin Prize.

If this does not appear in the next Mad Max movie, then someone should be fired!

OTOH, anyone who makes another Mad Max movie can go back to the original and pretend that the most recent movie never existed.

Tina Turner and Angry Anderson know nothing about new movies, Thunder Dome and Masterblaster.

First movie, not bad second movie, great third movie, embarrassing fourth movie, great.

There are some good welding/cutting skills, he doesn’t need that stinky CNC machine

I like it, but need some safe work.

It seems that if you brake too hard, you may fall forward on the exposed track and be squeezed under the handlebar, a new and different shape appears from the front. So the title of the article is 1.

Very interesting project. I don't want one. I will wait until version II or III.

Have you ever ridden a motorcycle?

I do find it strange that there is not a single turn.

You may notice the taper on the rollers and drive wheels. There is a reason for this.

My band saw has tapered rollers. The tapered shape prevents the blade from rolling off the side.

It's cool, and the video is also good. They showed enough things to show the important parts while ignoring the boring parts (I'm a bit unsure where some parts made of ore come from, but I think they are parts from donated scooters?)

But in terms of practicality, even for a stupid vehicle, as mentioned above, there is no evidence that it can turn. For tracked vehicles, unfortunately there is no off-road demonstration... I guess it is actually really unstable?

Nevertheless, it is very cool and impressive.

Just twist your body while riding. The steering is similar to snowboarding.

How is this controlled? For most use cases, one of the best advantages of tracked tracks is that vehicles with tracks can turn in place. There is only one track. I am worried that this will have a very wide turning circle. If I believe that all turns are possible What the rider can do is keep improving?

Part of me would like to see those made using commercial truck tires. But there seems to be too much something bigger than this.

We need one made with those bulldozer truck tires and twin turbocharged engines.

In addition, a flamethrower is required in front. Because.

I really want to make one of them...

Will I cheat if I use Lynx’s ready-made tracks?

No, this is a "hack".

Truck tires may be too hard to turn them into such belts...

"Too much" or "just right"? 😉

"Moore's Law" states: "If this is enough, then too much!"

Installing a pair of such devices on the back of the off-road vehicle/four-wheel racing frame will be very sweet as 2-4 independently driven traction control devices. What I mean is that technically, there are already similar systems that can be installed as spindle drives on 4-wheel drive trucks and 4-wheel vehicles. In addition to this, 4 independent motors with a slightly larger overspeed gearbox or driving the spindle wheel to compensate for the increase in speed and power would be crazy. [Tire is a gear reduction ratio to consider]

Neat, but tell me, is mig welding obsolete? It seems everyone is on guard now. Or am I the only one?

I am about to restart some projects. The last time I left was in the early 90s, before I worked in the government... I experienced all the oxyacetylene torch, arc, MIG and TIG welding, and then wrapped it in magnesium alloy. The best thing the resource can do. MIG is more of a production job, and I know I didn't like it very much at the time, even though it was very suitable. In addition to arc welding for cast iron, TIG produces the most beautiful welds and possibly the best integrity welds. Please correct me if I am wrong, because I am discovering that I don't remember the new features used at the time.

TIG can weld almost anything (if it can be arc welded first), but it is slow and requires high skills and labor. If you are an amateur, you don't really care about speed, but you do care about the cost of the machine and its functions. With MIG/MAG, you need to fill a roll of welding wire with filler material, which can be difficult/expensive for special welding wires. I own a large iron core transformer "production grade" MIG/MAG welder, just because I can buy it at the price of scrap metal. If I have to buy a new machine, I will choose TIG, with more possibilities.

I saw the same situation, which bothered me a bit. I have a workshop, so there are tig and single-phase and three-phase migs. I like mig, it is my first choice welding machine, it is fast, simple and consistently good results can be achieved with my two hands, I can lay tig welding beads very well, but always to anyone who starts Recommend mig, because this is a good safety welding tank made by an amateur with imperfect materials, with only a little guidance. obv I always say to buy a big old welding machine, not a 90a hobby without glass trash.

"No glasses" I don't understand what you mean. Can you help me solve my puzzles?

Magnetic flux core. When operating flux-cored welding wire, shielding gas is not needed, because the core of the welding wire itself will burn and become shielding gas. Really cheap MIG welders usually only have flux cores. The flux core does have some advantages (it can be used in windy conditions without a can of shielding gas), but it does need some cleaning afterwards.

(I think he meant "no air" instead of "no glass")

Thank you [Joel B]! This makes more sense.

The video I saw was that he was welding

Great project, absolutely extreme in terms of construction details!

It seems to be a good way to perform a home scrotumectomy...

This machine is waiting to drive on the snow. This may be safer than driving on the road. It’s great anyway, thank you for posting.

With this thread-don't think so...

Well, it might (probably) be safer-for others on the road! B^)

It just needs a perfectly straight path from where he left to where he goes.

Isn't this the same for all tanks? B^)

In fact, I mean the opposite, tanks don’t need roads! B^)

In fact, his work is impressive. Put this person on your radar, he is fine.

here you go! It is also good for the rider to stand up instead of sitting down! But I think the track needs to be longer, so that the driver does not lean forward or backward, accelerate or brake.

I really want to have a plan for myself. Like this idea.

I was shocked to watch videos of people in the Northeast who signed contracts with the military for designing fast attack vehicles. They made the first Ripsaw, then the mini Ripsaw, and then the paper shredder. A few years ago, I saw several paper shredders at a motorcycle store in western Nebraska. These are vertical rides without seats, with 2 tracks and a set of handles. With the cutting brake steering, the top speed on your feet is about 35 mph.

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