i currently have
- 1 paperclip
- 4 zip ties
- 4" of duct tape
holding my bike together. no bubble gum. sorry.
who thinks they have the most ghetto rigged (macguyvered?) bike out there?
Well My standard answer for years on my 89 GS with 48K was zip ties (usualy a dozen or so mandatory) duct tape (sometimes velcro is also used instead) and inner tube (all fuel flow seals are provided by inner tube). There were a dozen+ zip ties on my Virago 1100 as were many strips of inner tube but they were serveing the purpose of grommets ... more like supplementary grommets ... That Virago is faaaar from ghetto. Its gold and super super cool.
BTW That "der Honk" GS - those that know where that pic is please post it here - from somewhere in europe would be the ghettoiest I think.
Cool.
Srinath.
I have a big yellow tennis bal zip-tied to my centerstand to keep it from hitting the chain, does that count?
That's a good idea ... I keep saying shredded car tire but this is as good ...
Cool.
Srinath.
I have a slit length of heater hose zip-tied to the stand. It's a color match, though. :p
Yea and you had to go and make it all purty and stuff ... :lol:
Cool.
Srinath.
I got a dozen or so zip ties, a bunch of electrical tape. duct tape on the inside of the tail 5 min epoxy on the outside, and a bent electrical connector to bypass the clutch switch. my clutch perch has been welded back together and not repainted, my handle bars are rusty, there's rust whare i cut the back of the headlight bucket out.
Small hair/ponytail band holding the right front turn signal cover on...it's not colour coordinated, though...green...ick :lol: Yes on the duct tape...and I think there's some bubblegum in there holding something on...oh...and a bit of rust...I think he'd fall apart if not for the rust. :?
pandy
who's trying to imagine the paperclip....
If you're not using bailing wire for something it's not truly ghetto rigged.
I don't have access to bailing wire anymore.
I'd have to second davipu's bike's nomination for ghetto-ist. It's pretty trashed.
Sort of looks cool in a "Hey I don't care how crap my stuff looks, works or rides, as long as I can pretend it works".
My CR250R has two zip ties holding the rear end of the skid plate on. No need to get a new skid plate until the old one falls off really.
but I can leave it anywhere and not worry about it getting stolen.
i though i was ghetto, but all i've got is a (kinda) repaired gas tank off an 04 and a cbr1000RR can on my bike. oh, zip tied fuel lines too.
no duct tape, so i definitely don't take first.
but i do have a 5 dollar wrist watch strapped to my brake master cylinder.
i really need to post pics.
and I have fork gaitors. :roll:
All this talk of how ghetto your bikes are and no pics !?!? :mrgreen:
just search through my posts and you'll find pics.
Quote from: davipujust search through my posts and you'll find pics.
Oh cut us a break and post the darned pics! :P
pandy :cheers:
Quote from: pandyQuote from: davipujust search through my posts and you'll find pics.
Oh cut us a break and post the darned pics! :P
What she said! You're the #5 all-time poster and you say "just search trhough my posts"? :?
I guess that's OK, as long as you don't want anybody to see what you're talking about.... :roll:
that's what makes that statement funny.
Hush up, man, and cough up the pics! :nana:
pandy :mrgreen:
:? I've lived on a farm my whole life....wtf is bailing WIRE? You guys say bailing wire and I'm thinkin bailer twine....is that what you mean or am i jus that much of a hick?
no your a hick all right. back before they had the red/orange twine they had hemp, and before that they used actuall metal wire.
I guess i had no idea cause my farm went from loose hay, to hemp bound bales, to Ag-Bagged haylage and wrapped round bales :roll: I'm jus a youngin anyway so what do i know?
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a1/Onlypastrana199/haybale.jpg)
Now this is a hay bale! Its as wide as an f450 bed and about 5x's higher....that was not fun pitching I did it all by hand
Is that you or Pauly Shore driving the tractor thingy? Cause if its Pauly Shore your avatar is very misleading.
:lol: no its my 6'5" Osama/Lincoln look alike Dad.... :roll: I'm a half breed, german/mohawk. He's obviously the german
Does superglue count as ghetto rigged?
Quote from: fettcolsDoes superglue count as ghetto rigged?
cosmetic or mechanical? :lol:
I was jealous, so I added some Duct Tape to mine...
:thumb:
Baling Wire 101
Back in the olden days of dairy farming (pre-1975 or so)....
hay was cut in the field and left laying in rows....
hay baling machines were pulled behind a tractor, scooping up the hay at the front of the machine, compressing it into a rectangular block, and binding it with thin cheap wire from a spool, the bale was then dropped out the back onto the ground....
the blocks of hay were about 3'X1.5'x2' (my memory fades) and depending on how long the hay had dried, weighed around 50-75 lbs each.(just heavy enough for a young farm hand to lift and throw)....
manpower, not a front end loader, was used to pick up each bale where is was stacked on a trailer, taken to a barn, and restacked for winter feeding....(I got $0.07 per bale)
the baling wire used for miscellaneous projects came from the stack of old wire left over when the hay bales were consumed.
Baling wire....wind it tight , twist lock it, coat it with epoxy! stronger than steel.
lets see, zip ties, duct tape, spool wire (like bailing wire but thiner) aluminum strips, JB weld, and welding with both arc machine and oxyace with wire coathangers. OH yeah, PVC/ABS glue too.