It'll knock you down and steal your lunch
Jul. 24th, 2002 03:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tugrikSo, 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.
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.
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Date: 2002-07-24 05:29 pm (UTC)The proper look for a post-apocalyptic wheel-guard is not one designed specifically to go on the front of a bike and sold for that purpose; it's one ripped off the front of a train rusting in a railway museum and welded awkwardly onto the bike. The ethic is very much DIY - ugly but functional, and probably broken and repaired several times.
A rhinocerotic horn would fit into the look and with the rider.