My new creation - 'hot rod' bicycle

Yes, yes I know this is not bicycle forum but in anycase I like to introduce my new project. I guess here is someone who is intrested..

It's a 'Jopo Freak'. Jopo is a 60's cult bicycle in Finland. JoPo means BIcycle for EVeryone. It was very popular in 60-70's. Nowadays they made retro ones of it.. My creation is like a tribute to old - original Jopo. I worked whit it last winter. It was project all winter but finally I made it in 6 days! It's really crazy looking in drive. One of main ideas when I started to make it was that everyone who can drive whit ordinary bicycle can drive whit this also. They can! it's really simple to drive, it just looks freak!

Olli - Finland

 

project:

 

Shit thats some heavy snow you got there, shame the bike is painted white to.

 

Wow, that's crazy looking.

I like it.

 

Original JoPo:

 

Wow -- very cool little ride, even if it is a pedal one. That would freak people out a bit . . . let's see one in a recumbant though.

 

That's pretty cool. Did you come up with the tie rod setup for the steering, neat idea. How's is it pulling wheelies??

 

incredibly creative. sweet!

 

very cool design, thats one of the strangest bikes i've ever seen.

 

That's.... Freaky!

And good pedal-roddin'

How many degrees of caster do you have on the steering?

I'd like to see a recumbent also....

 

That's freaking weird! I love it! Good work!

 

Very cool bike, I'm not much into the manual ones, but this is a real cool idea for a oddball bike for me.

 

Cool stuff ! I'm sure you already have seen this one here...

 

Yes... i have seen that one even in drive.. we both are living in finland and know each other but was funny that we make our projects even that we did know others projects..

 

Thats pretty cool.....it must be great to watch people scratch their heads when you ride by.

 

I'm not sure how much degrees there is but measure trail is about 2"

 

Steering arm heads are Opel Omega(?) antirollbar parts.

 

That's RAD!
With the front end out there is must ride pretty smooth, kinda like an old ridgid frontend choppa.

 

Man - that's sweet. Original, and took a lot of thought. Very clean layout. When we were kids, we did all kinds of goofy shit to out bikes, stickin' multiple forks on the ends of each other, stickin' 'em way out there. Suprised we all survived some of the stuff we did.

 

that bike rules. wouldnt be able to ride street on it, but still way cool.

 

Man that thing is awesome! out of the box thinking for sure... would look awesome with a more smoopy frame design to match the front end.

Dig it!

 

Damn, somebody send me some of what there smoking!!

 

I got one more weird idea when lookin this picture, feel free to use that in your next creation... I'm not sure how it works though... What if inserting that outer and now separated steering beam INSIDE the vertical saddle-mount pipe...?


--mika

 

Love your work

 

major koool... if you're in the US early next March, you should consider putting in the Detroit Autorama's custom bicycle spot (in the basement w/ the other traditional rods).

 

Here's my friend driving whit it! Notice: smile. It's not hard at all...

 

That's one wacky shirt.


The bike is cool.I agree that your next frame should be more curvaceous and swoopy to match the look of the front end.