Let's make a bicycle frame out of hydraulic rams. Now if you're new here I've done things with bikes
before. We've got the social distancing bike, we've got the jet bike, and we got the
bicycle of springs, where i swapped all the tubes for springs to make it go all wobbly!
Now if you like that sort of thing SUBSCRIBE, it's a lovely thing to do! In this
project we're not using springs, no, we're gonna use hydraulics, so it can grow
and change shape and do all sorts of funny things. Now usually I'll get a bike chop it up, adapt it,
add the things onto it. But I've decided i'm going to be using so little of the bike, I may as well
start from scratch. Now hydraulics are expensive, this video has a sponsor. It's sponsored by
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and very heavy bicycle. Now this thing looks absolutely fantastic, the stainless, steel the
black hydraulics, it looks brilliant! There has been a lot of machining go into this thing!
If anything I'm kind of more curious, excited for what this thing's going to be like,
because you can really make some very strange shapes with this bicycle. Letting it do
what it wants to do because at the moment because there's no hydraulic pressure in
any of the cylinders. They're just floppy, they're all right, you can barely keep it as a
bicycle, that looks like a bicycle without it just like kind of naturally flopping into some
weird and strange shape. Now making the bike frame is kind of only half the task here,
because now we've got to fit some sort of hydraulic motor hydraulic lines, some controls
to this thing, without it overtaking it and it seeming not like a bicycle anymore, and just
a lump of electronics and gadgets and whatnot. So how am I going to do that Colin, because
you know, because I want to keep it neat! Right hydraulics people, this is where it's going
to get complicated. Now I've got this motor and attached it to this tiny little hydraulic pump.
I'm going to put that on the back of the seat tube. I'm going to fill the seat tube up with the
oil, that's going to be our oil reservoir, and then we need a solenoid valve so we can change the
directions in or out, and then we're going to have to have some sort of manifold where all the tubes
come from and hopefully the whole bike won't look a complete mess after this. Yep I don't know, I
don't know, I don't, I don't know, but I like it. Uh it's finished! Now it's covered in plumbing,
but I think this thing looks pretty cool. If that biked past you, you'd be nothing but intrigued.
So then, got a reduction gear motor which powers this little pump. The seat post is full of oil,
but I've added this extra reservoir, because there's not enough oil in there to expand all the
cylinders, if you wanted to do them all at once. Now the solenoid valve, I've had
to make my own aluminium block, so I can get all the ports to come out where I
want them. The whole thing's plumbed up. It's got valves either side of each cylinder. BUT,
can I actually ride it, and what is it like? You can feel the weight of the bike.
Right open the valve. Valve on. Forks going up! With a flick of a
switch, we've got like a low rider. Let's try and lift the back up. This is not a good idea. So the front forks and
the rear triangle, they work great. So I have a little bit of a check over, now it's time to turn
on attention to the center cylinders in the middle of the bike. Now to operate the cylinders on
this bike you basically just open the valves up, which correspond to the one that you want to
move. So if you want to move this middle one, I've opened those two up and then
basically, you just flick the switch and then it will and it will move. Now the
biggest problem we've got is there comes a point where the bike just loses all of its
geometry and completely falls to pieces! Ah, We're back again! So can't do that
while i'm riding along, but of course it does mean the whole point of this thing is
you can make some pretty weird shapes. Ultimate low rider! Endo machine! Super long bike! Super long and tall bicycle! Right this is all
very well Colin but can you actually ride it in any of these guises? Strange bike!
It literally feels like i'm gonna go over the handlebars and the whole
thing's gonna tuck in any minute. I don't like this! It's like I'm laying down on the
bike. No that doesn't work too low. Just feels like it's going to break. The bicycle of hydraulics! It looks so cool! This is all very well
Colin but does it actually have any uses? Well there is one, you can bike up
or down hills and always be level! There we are the bicycle of hydraulics! What a thing I mean every time I look at it
I think it looks absolutely blooming awesome. You probably saw it in the thumbnail and
thought that's awesome I'll have a look at that. A couple of little extra bits, if you're wondering
why I haven't gone like hell in down hills, or doing any jumps on it there is
a lot of flex and a lot of twist in the chassis or whatever you want to call it, because there's so many joints and things
and obviously the hydraulic cylinders you know they can rotate in each other quite freely, so that does add up to a bit of an
unnatural and nerving riding experience, and also the fact it is heavy,
it's very heavy! I've weighed it. 53 kilos! Yeah it's heavy, but that still doesn't
take away from the fact beautiful stainless steel, lovely black hydraulics, lovely bit of
plumbing, it's just brilliant! Now I've put links in the description to my other bicycle
creations, if you want to go and check them out, SUBSCRIBE, there'll be more things like
this. I'll see you in the next project.
This is the dumbest shit I've ever seen I LOVE IT
I dont know how this guy hasn’t killed himself yet
The always level climbing bike would be interesting
That crazy bike has got to weigh at least 60 lbs
I like the length of those chainstays.
A stupid bike or the stupidest bike? I love it.
Lol, i was just saying to my hubby last night, when we were watching this, that he must be the patron saint of this sub, or if not he might soon be after this!
oh wow, nice stainless steel frame
I love this guy's creations but man something about the way he speaks and edits his videos just pisses me off every time