Two of my favorite things have now been combined: Vinyl and cycling. It plays music when you ride! The Going Going Going Biking blog reports:

They designed the bike as part of their Feats per Minute project. The tempo of your bike ride determines the beats per minute you produce, so pop and hip hop records, which are usually between 90 and 130 BPM, should be easy to play at speed while you ride.

The bike contains an amplifier and is supported by a nine volt battery to give the amplifier a sufficient energy boost to play the records out back through the sound horn.

Challenges in the build

“The idea is pretty simple; basically, a wheel and dynamo work the same way as a record player. But it was not as easy as it looks. First, we had to come up with a solution for the wheels; how can we change the records? The forfork was blocking the wheel. That’s why we changed a 30 year old bike into a lefty bike,” the designers said.

“The biggest challenge of all was to make sure that the needles would stick to the record and follow the grooves, without skipping too much.”

Prototype

At the moment the bike is a prototype with the designers looking to hone the design in the future. They told the It’s Nice That website, that their goal for the bike was not mass production, but they wanted to see at least one Feats per Minute in every city.

As it looks now, we think it is a fantastic looking bike and would be a fun item to have at any celebration of the bicycle.

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