Amazing bike-powered tree house elevator [video]
Posted by staff / September 3, 2013 IdahoSandpointspeed bicycletree house
What’s better than an adult-sized tree house?
A bicycle-powered elevator to get you there!
Meet Ethan Schlussler of Sandpoint, Idaho, who got tired of climbing a ladder to his incredible tree house and decided what better way to get there than on wheels?
“It was originally a 20-something speed bicycle, but first gear wasn’t slow enough, so I cut the large sprocket off the front, and welded it on the rear to get a lower gear. I also had to do away with the de-railers and make a new chain tensioner.”
See, easy as riding a bike.
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