Showing posts with label innovation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label innovation. Show all posts

Sunday, November 7, 2010

The Derelict DeSoto of Jonathan Ward, DeSoto front on a '52 Chrysler Town and Country custom wagon

Exterior is rat rod, genuine aged US steel and paint.


The engine is a new Hemi, and has vintage 392 era valve covers covering the new stuff. Sweet touch!
The lug nuts appear to be 1/2 inch or 9/16ths sockets... cool idea I've never seen anyone realize before.

Awesome interior

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Rafik Kaissi (RK Concepts) has created a bike that blew my mind by the innovative concept of welding industrial chain for the backbone

Placed 10th in the international World Championship in 2009 at Sturgis, http://www.amdchampionship.com/content.php?page=registry§ion=viewbike&event=2009world&bikenumber=027
That copper antique fire extinguisher is the fuel tank... a photo at the end of this gallery shows what I'm talking about

at the middle of the steering, are these words
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference"
That seat is mounted to a piece of leaf spring... looped over one link, and under the one in front of it, in a half hook shape that allows it to be moved to different links to allow for riders of different length legs or arms. Genius!












The front suspension is a half leaf spring, and it is clamped with 3 U bolts, and this allows for longer front forks by sliding the leaf spring out equally on both sides of the front fork. Genius!











Holding the headlight assemble together with small bicycle size chain, really cool thematic continuation
A little difficult to see on this below photo is the brake fluid resevoir that is the top part of a grenade



Easier to see the grenade top in the below photo




















In the above photo the small chain can be seen on both ends of the shifter and the end of the exhaust pipe


Notice a tiny piston used as a brake light




















http://www.rkconcepts.com/ in Austin Texas, for info on Rafik, and his bike builds.