So I was reading Boing, Boing, as I do sometimes, and came across their post about guys on bicycles that sharpen knives. Now, that’s cool enough in itself, but somebody named Richard wrote in with this little bit:
There’s a fellow named Chuck that lives at the end of Zion Road in Gambier, OH. He’s crazy about bikes… loves building recumbent chop-jobs, including a tandem recumbent for him and his wife. Anyway, I went over to his place one day to see about getting a spoke replaced, and I saw this most peculiar contraption… the bike powered belt sander… a stationary recumbent bike with that powers a sander at arms-reach. He uses the sander to take broken pieces of mirror and fashion them into rear-view mirrors to clip on bike helmets, among other things. A lot of people around here say that he invented the clip-on mirror. I choose to take that statement at face value.
Now that is cool, because probably ten years ago I bought one of Chuck’s mirrors, based only on an internet description. You clip it to your glasses with a spoke that has been twisted around.
And what’s even better, I found it in less than a minute.
If I knew how to comment to Boing, Boing, I’d have sent them the picture, but oh well.
I am pretty sure you can just email Cory “doctorow at craphound.com”
So cool that you found it. =D