Transport

Rolled 8, 9, 19, 13 = 49 Hello delta I'm looking into building a gas or diesel engine into my stock-built electric bicycle, and was wondering what you all thought about individualized transportation methods that reflect our... >Present Day >Present Time I'd love ideas for aesthetic and functional additions for my own bike, but more than that, I wanted to create a discussion of any forms of DIY builds for transport, whether on wheels or off.

my bicycle is hacked together from various parts. I use it as much as possible, any time I have to go less than 3 miles to somewhere. Otherwise I use my truck.

>>3047 I left my job yesterday, but I was traveling about 12 miles to work and 12 back on one charge, which I'd plug in every day at work. It was nice to use their power to get around, but I would like to charge my battery on my own engine and have a self contained ability to go at least 100 miles.

>>3046 Motorcycles seem to be the best vehicles for openly evading capture by the police on land within urban and suburban areas (there are videos out there if you'd like a demonstration). I guess that's the "punk" appeal. ATVs are probably better in forested areas. Boats may be better depending on how much water is involved. If you're trying to evade notice altogether, cars and vans are potentially preferable, although motorcyclists have the advantage of being able to obscure their faces. There are still situations where a bicycle would come out ahead (they can bypass cars and don't have to be registered), and an electric bike like yours should easily outperform a manual bicyle. This probably sounds a bit scattered, but that's because I'm trying to lay out the situations where a motorcycle would not necessarily be preferable in order to more obviously establish the situations in which it would be preferable. Taking this together, you could do what they do in movies: put a motorcyle with no identifying marks or labels in the back of a theoretically more inconspicuous work van. When you need to get in and get out of a place, you drive the van to a place without a camera, put on the helmet (obscures the face), and pull out the motorcycle. Then, so long as you get to your safe house or whatever, they can check the local camera feeds to find that an unmarked motorcycle with a faceless rider just appears in the area before disappearing. I will say that they caught some criminals who were doing this kind of thing a while back by using 24-hour spy plane surveillance. Maybe that's all a bit off-topic and too Hollywood-esque, but it's what I think of. Hopefully this will prompt something in other lainons.

Rolled 69 no power now. you would think i could get a month out of it, looking into diesel. chasis is sturdy enough, especially for rear mounted loads. anyone working on keeping the fuel flowing? I won't exactly need it all the time, but getting out to cities is much less hassle~ also looking into reclaiming the railroads

https://hackaday.com/2018/10/17/can-a-motorized-bicycle-run-on-trees/ http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/gasifier-for-a-motor-bicycle/1419 These have no need to be registered, are theoretically capable of 70+ miles per hour and can be built on the cheap and run on just about any combustible substance, especially those containing hydrocarbons. I would argue that gassifier powered bicycles are the ultimate in off the grid, untraceable and ultra reliable/affordable transport.

>>3111 Holy fuarrrking soykaf. This is amazing.

>>3111 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20RhuGSYN5Y This is a wood gassifier that can be put together by hand without welding.

>>3058 apologies in advance for americentrism motorcycles are also the best option for fuel efficiency, with a proper fairing, due to the tiny frontal area. I calculated the "effective" fuel consumption of electric cars, converting on basis of CO2 emissions of power plants per kwh, and energy consumption per mile of electric cars. Therefore, based on US average power generation most electric cars still get less than 100 mpg due to continued dependence on coal and NG. fully faired motorcycles on the other hand can achieve hundreds of mpg (http://craigvetter.com/pages/470mpg/Vetter%20Fuel%20Economy%20Contests.html) notice also that benda wilvert achieved 165 mpg on a 250cc with an exposed engine and front wheel, in 1983

>>3111 >click site >doesn't call it what it is Steamer. >>3112 No more than internal combustion engines. >>3113 I doubt that you can make a steamer without welding unless you bought some overly expensive kit that jewtube advertised to keep itself rich. Even if not buying charcoal is as expensive as it is not energy efficient. >>3046 Present day and present time would dictate use of super capacitors and solar panels to charge an electric bicycle. No one ever builds a tiny diesel engine though a diesel motorcycle or scooter that runs on vegetable oil would be obviously cool. There have technically been steamer motorcycles back before motorcycles were even invented though. If you really wanna be original and waste as much energy as a steamer then you may as well put a rocket on the thing and propel it with uncommon explosives.