Mar 18 2010Pedaling 'Dem Bones: A Skeleton Bicycle
Artist and Geekologie Reader Eric Tryon went and made himself a skeletal bicycle. It's fully functional and the arms and head move whenever you make a turn. Plus, it looks like you're humping a demon skeleton, so ghosts won't mess with you.
Hit the jump for a closeup.
Thanks Eric, now how bout a skeletal Big Wheels? No? Just a thought.
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Reader Comments
1. Cadoo! - March 18, 2010 10:16 PM
thats one bony bike....
2. drew - March 18, 2010 10:17 PM
slightly creepy but i'd buy it
3. Billy Rapture - March 18, 2010 10:19 PM
I think this is my favorite thing ever.
4. Dishy D - March 18, 2010 10:21 PM
That's epic Eric.
Now make one that looks like a Unicorn.
5. jam - March 18, 2010 10:42 PM
nice use of the horns
6. Berzerker - March 18, 2010 11:10 PM
i've got a "bone"er
7. handbags sale - March 18, 2010 11:16 PM
Notice his right leg.
8. UnpaidParkingTickets - March 18, 2010 11:21 PM
The rider of the bike would like he/she is mounting the skeleton. lolz
9. Adibobea9 - March 18, 2010 11:25 PM
That's awesome. He should cover it in Glow in the Dark paint…
10. Eric Tryon - March 18, 2010 11:30 PM
for those of you who are interested. The Skeleton bike is for sale, please feel free to e-mail me via my web page. www.erictryon.com
11. Chip - March 19, 2010 12:02 AM
Wicked bike! Love the movement of the limbs as the wheels turn and it is steered. The "horns" are awesome, too!
Glow in the dark paint, YES - great suggestion.
Question: to the limbs get in the way of pedaling?
12. they're real and they're spectacular - March 19, 2010 12:55 AM
How do you shift gears? Is there more than one gear?
13. Spooner - March 19, 2010 1:43 AM
Great concept, I like.
This is clearly a single speed bicycle, almost certainly fixed gear due to lack of brakes.
14. L - March 19, 2010 4:05 AM
would love to see someone win the Tour de France on something like this.
15. stas92 - March 19, 2010 5:31 AM
nooo wayyy u gota make a HOW TO video/ or pdf . I WANT ITT!!!
16. Paddy - March 19, 2010 7:33 AM
god she was rode raw
17. Vogelbeere - March 19, 2010 7:38 AM
Is that a real skeleton or a plastic one?
The handlebars coming out of the skull look sort of like horns - great for winding up fundamentalist Christians ;)
18. Closet Nerd - March 19, 2010 7:38 AM
Now I have Alice in Chains' "Them Bones" stuck in my head.... just sayin
I believe them bones are me
Some say we're born into the grave
I feel so alone
Gonna end up a big ole pile a them bones
19. education - March 19, 2010 7:53 AM
Wicked bike! Love the movement of the limbs as the wheels turn and it is steered. The "horns" are awesome, too!
20. L - March 19, 2010 8:06 AM
She-Ra: I told Skeletor not to call He-Man a pussy...
21. moojoe - March 19, 2010 8:18 AM
What would happen if you suddenly had to stop and you went forward a bit? It looks like your balls would be ripped apart from a spine...
22. JADE - March 19, 2010 8:39 AM
Nice... I could ride a boner all day...........yesh yesh
23. forker - March 19, 2010 9:06 AM
so then… while riding it you'll look like you're 'boning' a skeleton from behind?
24. Jaded Icon - March 19, 2010 9:21 AM
@ 22
That's terrible. Not the image mind you, but the pun. Besides we both know you only cause boners not get them.......just saying.
25. OmikronApex - March 19, 2010 9:57 AM
Damn... I got to build one myself. But I'd make the handlebars look more like horns^^
26. naas - March 19, 2010 10:29 AM
If that thing could ride itself...... even creepier
27. SiGee - March 19, 2010 10:39 AM
BAD ASS!!
Do Want!!
28. JADE - March 19, 2010 11:24 AM
@24.Well this is one boner i don't have to worry about going soft.....just sayin
29. Milkman - March 19, 2010 12:00 PM
thats awesome. i got a total boner
30. MissMedlee - March 19, 2010 2:39 PM
Wait a second I think this artist goes to my University ... Sweet shit.
31. Daisy - March 19, 2010 4:20 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene int he movie Never Back Down where Max messed up the incantation he was supposed to say when he picked up the book, and later fell in the graveyard, and a skeleton poked him in the eyes.
32. Emily - March 19, 2010 5:33 PM
Daisy, I'm pretty sure this isn't a fake. You can look at Eric's site and see more pictures, pretty sure there is a video of him riding it out there as well.
On top of that I lived with Eric when he was making the bike, haha.
33. Tylith - March 20, 2010 9:26 AM
@32 Emily
You are obviously new here...
34. cel - March 21, 2010 2:32 AM
butt sex with a skeleton...
35. Matt - March 21, 2010 4:42 AM
I agree in terms of awesomeness and bone-humping entendres. Take that death you bastrard!!!
But from a technical standpoint, how did you get the leg bones to keep contact with the back wheel when it goes past the frame? If you've worked out a way to do this I'd love to hear it, I'm planning some bike-powered kinetic sculptures and need all the ingenious tricks I can come across... email's matt@wildworkstudio.com if u want to get in touch
36. Sam Froehlich - March 22, 2010 5:55 PM
I'd swap the handle bars with horns and paint that bad boy red. Maybe put a headlight in the mouth and opening/closing jaws for when it's turned on. Give the skull some fangs perhaps.
37. you epicly fail - March 22, 2010 6:54 PM
so epic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i want it so bad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
38. Bill Johnson - March 23, 2010 8:48 PM
Not even close to original. There where several versions on the skeleton bike in the Daytona Rat Hole contest back in 2005
http://www.duccutters.com/Daytona05/Originals/DSC02800.jpg
39. Mike - March 24, 2010 12:33 PM
Finally, a fixie that distracts me with its coolness long enough to make me forget that I think bikes with locked rear hubs and no brakes are just plain dumb.
40. Stanley - April 9, 2010 6:05 PM
It says (ARMS and HEAD move). For the leg (if you wanted it to move...Can't attach the leg or foot to the wheel of course. Not sure if it was done this way, but you'd have to weld an arm off an outer pivotal point extending through the frame (replace axle, sprocket, a whole mess of stuff), which would be hard to hide in a picture this well..... if you really wanted it to really look like the skeleton is running that is....
Then, move the pelvis forward 8" and up 6-8" and it would be perfect.