The advantage of a paint sprayer is well known: it provides quality coverage. Moreover, achieving smooth transitions from one color or tone to another can only be done by spraying. And for this, you need to have a compressor in your home workshop. It won’t sit idle after apartment renovations either, and will come in Read more…
Many have probably heard of an interesting winter sport — skijoring, in which skiers compete while being towed by a motorcycle. In northern countries, a similar sport is cultivated — towing a skier by a horse. The vehicle we want to introduce you to will allow you to fully experience the delights of high-speed skiing Read more…
I discovered the sketch of a small motorcar-truck, which this article is about, in an old folder during a major cleanup and reorganization in my garage archive. It brought back memories of those times when enthusiasm for technical creativity—building homemade machines, boats, aircraft, and various other constructions—was, one might say, widespread. I also developed a Read more…
It seems incredible that the chrome-plated roller bike, one of the numerous exhibits at the Central Exhibition NTTM-82, was made by teenagers — it has a very “factory-made” appearance. And yet it was made by members of the Tashkent City Station of Young Technicians Abdukhamid Dekhkambayev and Khasan Nurmatov. They were supervised by designer-constructor V. Read more…
Whatever amateur designers may attempt, no better running gear for snowmobiles has yet been invented than the repeatedly tested combination of “ski plus pneumatic tire.” I became convinced of this after building and testing three variants of snowmobiles of my own design in sequence. The first machine had two skis in front and one wheel Read more…
More than once I tried to build a simple, convenient, and compact micro-motorcycle. However, after building and testing several such machines with a D6 engine, shortcomings emerged that were stereotypically repeated in all of them: uncomfortable riding position (especially for tall riders), lack of auxiliary pedal drive, the need to start, as they say, “by Read more…
I started designing this car a long time ago – maybe ten, maybe fifteen years ago. But this does not mean at all that I stood at the drawing board for all ten to fifteen years. No, I just bit by bit, in the mass of what had already been created and worked out, I Read more…
The age of the members of the “Planeta” young technicians station varies greatly: from elementary school students to graduates. And if high school students are more interested in serious equipment (motor blocks, snowmobiles, all-terrain vehicles, etc.), then for younger ones, light motorcycles are most attractive, so they can start it themselves and ride with the Read more…
It was named a hydrocart, although it looks more like a kind of water motorcycle. This sports micro-vessel was built at the Donetsk Regional Young Technicians’ Station in the “Small Shipbuilding” club. As the station director N. V. Vasiliev reported to the editorial office, the club is celebrating its fifteenth anniversary this year. At first, Read more…
In recent years, DIY snowmobile designers have somehow forgotten about ski-and-track machines whose designs have been perfected by dozens of manufacturers across hundreds of models, and instead prefer simpler, more versatile all-terrain vehicles on low-pressure tires. Nevertheless, from time to time snowmobile enthusiasts design classic motor sleds as well, creating simple and functional machines. A Read more…
