JIMMY KUEHNLE

The Lawn Bike now has a very sickly looking layer of brown sod on it. I also roughed in the fence posts to get an idea of the final appearance. Now I have to level out the grass and water it a lot. Where is my green thumb?

Today I finished up the routing of the two chains that will power the “grass bike.”  The first chain goes around the chainring on the cranks to a rear cassette bolted below.  From that cassette a separate chain makes the long trip to the rear sprocket on the rear wheel.  The central cassette serves as […]

Now that I have completed Big Red, I am taking a short break from my sewing machine. I still have a lot to sew for my show in Kyoto in June but I have been thinking about a bicycle project for awhile now. I have made countless bicycles in all shapes and sizes […]

After a test run at the University, I packed up my new inflatable suit, Big Red, and boarded the local train bound for Sakae in Nagoya, Japan. Sakae is a trendy shopping district and also has a large central park that runs north south through the city. Because […]

Today I visited a plastic tarp distributing company to look at samples of plastic coasted fabrics so I could make a new inflatable suit. I went to a company called Masudakiyosi-shoten (増田清商店) in Nagoya that specializes in tarps for truck covers, tents, awnings and inflatable castles. They did not sell any rip-stop […]