Saturday, November 06, 2010

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

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"

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


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.

Kevin Chen even posted a page on RK Concepts. http://thekevinchen.wordpress.com/2010/12/14/rk-concepts/#more-5053

3 comments:

  1. Great Bikes, Rafik did an amazing job!

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  2. Great artistic building!

    More on the message between the bars-
    This is the longer version,
    most people never get more than the keychain version....


    "God,please grant us...
    Serenity to accept things we cannot change,
    Courage to change the things we can, and the
    Wisdom to know the difference
    Patience for the things that take time
    Appreciation for all that we have, and
    Tolerance for those with different struggles
    Freedom to live beyond the limitations of our past ways,
    the Ability to feel your Love for us and thus,
    our love for each other and the
    Strength to get up and try again even when we feel all is lost...
    and hopeless.

    Living Life...
    one day at a time;
    enjoying one moment at a time;
    Accepting hardship as the pathway to Peace;
    taking,
    as Jesus did,
    this sinful world-
    as it is, not as I would have it.
    Trusting that He will make all things right...
    If we surrender to His Will;
    so that we may be reasonably happy in this life
    and supremely happy with Him
    Forever and ever in the next."

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  3. That's the dumbest idea I have ever seen for a bike... sorry but thumbs down unless it is in a museum. I ride bikes... don't look at them as art.

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