ECMC Trophy
Crotchy volunteered to make a trophy for BillDozer's East Coast Messenger Chumpionships "fiasco"/weekend/race/polo tournament, and to spend a little time w/ the sawzall and the tanks. When BillDozer is...
View ArticleThe Country Squire
Ahh- The Country Squire! Like a balmy bay breeze betwixt the buttocks, The Squire carries it's rider in the upright and noble posture of his forebears from an earlier, more genteel era. No squatting or...
View ArticleWeighs less than a Varsity.
Having decided to leave the tallbikes we took to MPLS behind, Thud thought, "wait, why build a crappy bike to leave there when I could just build a better bike to keep here?" After staring at the brass...
View Articleantlered beast
CHUNK in NY has a low profile, and we had many dropouts strewn about the shop. Crotchey decided to mark the triple-tall BMX tallbike that he made for Snowman. If the people see it locked on the street,...
View ArticleHumble Origins
As we await the return of our expeditionary forces from the very precipice of chunkulation experimentation in the arid highlands, we pause to reflect on our early baby steps.Yea, the 1st CHUNK...
View ArticleSailchop Expedition
The landscape was incredible. Mindblowing.CHUNK 666 camping is just as lovely as always - whiskey toddies, bacon-fried eggs, chili beans and soup. A bit chill in the middle-nights, but soon warmed in...
View ArticleThe Gates
It was bitter cold though she still danced without her cane on the sidewalk outside the bodega. Somehow we inspire others to act out. It’s contagious.She was dancing to our boom box while some guys...
View ArticleDay at the Races
CHUNK 666's very own Big Bear has been moonlighting on the Team Beer cyclocross squad for over a year now, always, 'course, on a muhfuggin CHUNK bike. He has built several cross-choppers in this time,...
View ArticleNew Year
C.H.U.N.K. somehow got comped an unlimited supply of tix to the Y2K+8 Wu Tang NYE throwdown. There was alota poo-pooing of the Wu before hand, many minutes of chunks looking bored with the idea.Then...
View ArticleNW Piano Mover
Northwestern Piano Mover by Terri Saul, from a photo on the CHUNK mothersite.
View Articlechvnkland
Click to enlargeThud made this map of ye olde stompinge groundes for the Teams of Portland exhibit at the North American Handmade Bicycle Show. It hits the major highlights of CHUNK's historical...
View ArticleBrasserie
Now that the breeding program is at full tilt, we will need to find ways to quench the superhuman thirst that second generation Chunklings are sure to develop.Thud is thus cultivating a bond with Dee...
View ArticleAAAGHGHGHHH!!!!
Thud is using virgin stainless, doing stress element calculations, and contracting with a laser cutter!We may have lost him!Somebody get him on the burnt paint fume inhaler! STAT!!!And it's on a...
View ArticlePublic Werks & Morning Wood
New(ish) rides by Big B.Public Werks.Monotube fork extension is discarded sign-post. No welds - all bolts. Lot of shimmy shimmy.The Morning Wood aka Norwegian Wood.Wooden beam monotube, christened...
View ArticleLuigi
Luigi was formed from a tiny, curvy yellow Schwinn kids' frame as a core, an extra rear triangle, a big seatpost extension, and a set of exercise bike handlebars.It's wheels were relatively tiny, maybe...
View ArticleAqua-Propulsion Laboratories*
The CHUNK 666 Aquacycle expedition to the Pleasure Lagoon quickly approaching, Megulon-5 figured he'd take his aquacycle for a test-float.His aquacycle? The infamous PlatformThing (re-christened the...
View ArticleBuilding the Dog of War
Spidey welding mulitple stays into the big pipe axle.Burning a hole through the axle-pipe to serve as a grease-port?An attached wheel.
View ArticleMt. Tabor Timetrials
From the 2006 Labor Day weekend festivities. For the record, out of two runs per racer, Thud & Hang tied for best time(s) with runs of 37 seconds. But the Bear got a 38 and a 39 by jumping off the...
View Articledclxvi updates
photo by megulon-5.Aquachopper Expeditions.Our first amphibious ride. We rode to Ross Island, camped overnight, and returned to civilization the next day.Read more...St. Ratricks DayWe visited the...
View ArticleThe Mother of All Bikes
The idea of a Mother of All Bikes was hatched around the same time the beginning of the Iraq Invasion. Apparently, in Gulf War I, Saddam said the War would be the "Mother of All Battles." Then, before...
View ArticleA Tall Bike Construction Primer
With the recent exponential multiplication of tall bikes across the country and even around the world, a primer on their construction hardly seems necessary. Still, for the sake of those just starting...
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Photo by Jon HueyMutant Bike Proving GroundsThe most important skill for the mutant biker in the streets of today's world is the ability to do things that nobody else understands and you yourself may...
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