It'll knock you down and steal your lunch

[tugrik]

So, I'm taking the already-somewhat-brutish GS dualsport to Burning Man this year. I need to deck it out, desert-warrior style. Think 'mad max on a motorbike'. I've already got an older helmet I will be putting a supersize mohawk-and-feathers on, as well as doing up the tankbag/panniers in old leather scraps, straps, and fur. I may even be able to scare up a baseball-bat scabbard or other 'self defence device' holders to mount in the right places, complete with thong-straps bearing beads, small animal skulls, and the like.

This is a plea put out to my creative friends: help me think up things I can do to the bike to pull off a credible post-apocalyptic presence attack. Be it just a few 'you should try (...)' written suggestions, or a sketch, or whatever ... please, pitch me a few ideas! :) The only real limitation is that I need to keep it road-legal, so no welding on giant swords of death sticking out the front.

This weekend I'm going to re-watch all the road-warrior-esque movies in the house's DVD collection. It shouldn't be all that hard to find some cool ideas. If done right, driivng up on the bike will look like I had just rolled in from Bartertown.

Comments

[amilori.livejournal.com]

Oooh. An excuse to go digging thru the leather & fur scraps & look at the bone & shell beads in my collection. Got any plans for Sunday? You could come over & raid the collections....

[tugrik.livejournal.com]

No plans for Sunday so far! (sorry I've not been in touch much lately. I tend to only keep up with the folks who're on the same realtime chat/muck areas I am, and you're not. I'll be better about emailing!)

[amilori.livejournal.com]

How about stopping by for lunch around noon-1PM and we'll go from there?

[tugrik.livejournal.com]

Still up for lunch tomorrow? I know I have your direct email around here somewhere, but I can't find it! Hopefully the LJ-response thingy will email this to you for me. :) I was hoping a little more afternoonish if so... or maybe you could join me for the 11:30a matinee of K19? Give me a call when you can... or I'll try to call tomorrow morning. :)

Glad we managed to get hooked up

[amilori.livejournal.com]

This coming weekend is devoted to "Getting Things Done Around the House", so give a call Friday-Sunday if you want to come over & pick up the beads & baubles or want help with any of the basic assembly. Glad I managed to dig out all of the leather, denim & canvas scraps for you.

Promise you'll take pictures of the finished bike at Burning Man!