Bicycle : Old Body, New Appearance

Bicycle is an environmental friendliness vehicle. There is no pollution caused by this device, not like others vehicle which produce many pollution in the air, such as motor cycle, car, train and others. Of course they included by machines. So they will continuously produce pollution whereas our earth more and more added by pollution of all burning process in the earth, usually called ‘global warming’. So, to cut down the effect of global warming, start from our ride,let’s minimize use of motor vehicle and use bicycle.

If you don’t have a bicycle and don’t have much money to buy a new bicycle, it doesn’t matter. Here I will share to you how to get a new bicycle with little expenditure of money and with your creativity. First, get a secondhand bicycle. Surely, the price is cheap isn’t it? Or you have an old bicycle in your warehouse, that’s better. If there are some problem, just get it to the repair shop. If you want to make change to the base form of the body, you can do it there too. Then get it to some part so we can clean the iron rust, remove the old painting, and paint it easily. You can clean the iron rust with paper rub by rubbing it to all side, and remove the old painting with paper rub too. Other alternative, you can use the paint remover to do it so you not too fatigue. After all the body become to run clean, let’s paint it. You can use mosquito sprayer to do it, start with flimsy coat of the spraying, wait until dry or running dry,  then spray again. Minimum step of spraying is two times. although you can fatigue quickly, but the result is good. Don’t do it manually with paintbrush, because the result is bad. A suggestion from me, to get a good colour unification, use black and white colour, then give a colour according to your appetite. That would be nice colour.

After all paint become to run dry, pair all part of the body of the bicycle. Use sticker to make it has a nice look. You can use artless sticker so you can form it according your creativity, or you just use art sticker if you don’t want to occupied. Then you have a new bicycle made by yourself.

Start from riding bicycle, you can cut down the effect of global warming, help our earth hold out longer, and minimize disasters. What next?

By : Achmad Derma Syafi’i (7310040012)