{"id":218,"date":"2021-08-29T23:48:37","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T23:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.russellstreethosting.com\/?page_id=218"},"modified":"2024-11-26T15:49:10","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T21:49:10","slug":"freak-bike-arp-synesthesia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aaroncharlwood.com\/?page_id=218","title":{"rendered":"Freak Bike: Chopper Bike"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This is the first chopper bicycle that I’ve built — it’s an old JC Higgins pre-war bicycle frame, and the front fork has been extended by welding a longer steerer tube in place. One interesting feature is the beehive spring on the front fork, which was an early style of shock absorber. This bike is quite heavy — about 60 pounds fully loaded — which necessitated custom built wheels for extra strength. It also has a 1000 watt stereo system and a tuned subwoofer mounted on it. This can set off car alarms when playing music at full volume!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why “ARP Syntesthesia”? Each bicycle in SCUL<\/a> has a bicycle name, and every member of SCUL has a wing name which applies to all the bicycles they build. The wing name “ARP” stands for “Agglomerated Recycled Parts” and is also a computer nerd joke because ARP is a networking protocol. I chose Synesthesia because of the audio and visual overload this bike creates when passing by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are many more construction details in these old blog posts<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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