Of all types of sledding sports, bobsledding was the first to gain international recognition — steerable sleds for several passengers. It appeared on ice tracks at the end of the 19th century. Russian athletes rode bobsleds as early as 1910—1912, mastering the slopes of Vorobyovy Gory. Since the first Winter Olympic Games in 1924 in Read more…
…A young driver sits on a miniature, elegantly designed scooter and starts moving. There’s no familiar crackling sound, no annoying smoke. What’s the matter? Looking more closely, we discover that this scooter has an electric motor installed instead of the usual internal combustion engine. The scooter is electric! We admit that such machines are not Read more…
Unfortunately, it’s not very often that the pages of the magazine feature descriptions of homemade constructions that surpass the current level of serial Russian, let alone Western technology. And this is understandable: after all, such amateur machines are usually made in a shed or garage, where the entire machine park consists of an electric drill Read more…
Do you want to build a sailboat? Then you’ll probably be interested in a dinghy of simplified construction, designed for home manufacturing technology. Of course, while maintaining good hydrodynamic hull lines and, accordingly, good sailing qualities. A boat with waterproof fabric sheathing will seem very attractive to many. However, soft sheathing for a dinghy is Read more…
In “Modelist-Konstruktor” magazine No. 4’2003, there was a good publication about interesting developments by members of the Tambov velomobile club: various models to suit any taste with comfortable soft seats, efficient muscle-powered drives, and stable three-wheeled chassis. Among these original homemade vehicles, one model stands out as fundamentally new in the velomobile world, since it, Read more…
A gardener, vegetable grower, or builder cannot easily do without such a vehicle as a wheelbarrow. When moving a wide variety of loads, it significantly lightens hard work—saves strength, time, and possibly health when transport volumes are substantial. Construction material markets and hardware stores sell wheelbarrows of various designs. But at prices incomparable to their Read more…
Less and less often you’ll see nimble mopeds on our roads. And this is not surprising: the main manufacturers, by the will of fate, ended up abroad — in Latvia and Ukraine. So everything that is still sold from this range in specialized stores today are foreign-made models. Accordingly, the price… Moreover, fickle motorcycle fashion Read more…
In the mid-80s, television screens in many countries widely advertised small, fast, exceptionally maneuverable motorized vessels under the general name “water motorcycle”: “jet ski”, “waterbot”, “hydrocycle”. They immediately won the hearts of water sports enthusiasts, displacing windsurfers, water skiers, and representatives of some types of water-motor sports. However, reproducing a hydrocycle design at home is Read more…
In my time, I had the opportunity to build and test many motorboats. The first to hit the water was the motorboat “Zvezdochka”, whose drawings were published in the October 1966 issue of the “Modelist-Konstruktor” magazine. It is known that in rural areas, DIY enthusiasts are not spoiled by the wide range of construction materials Read more…
The author of this material is a schoolboy from a distant Siberian city. When the editorial office received his letter describing the ski-track snowmobile he had built, he was 15 years old and studying in the tenth grade of secondary school. Now Yevgeny has grown older, more experienced, and would probably design some components of Read more…
