The Amazing (Real) Pocketbike PC Case Mod
Too bad you can't really ride it anymore.
We all love a good case mod. Some of our favorite case mods involve things that weren't meant to hold computers in the first place, such as a pocketbike that can hit 110 km/h.
17-year-old "Saibot" from Canada took an old pocketbike and gutted it to accept a full Intel Core i7-based system. The impressive project took 12 days of work spread over five months.
The best part of his mod was that he documented the entire process with pictures, transforming a furry bike into an amazing pocketbike PC complete with lighting effects. The user can still actually sit on the bike, but with no engine, it's not going anywhere.
Specs:
Corsair TX750watt PSU
Intel i7 920 d0 batch# 3845b260
Asus p6t
OCZ 6gb DDR3-1800 @ 8-8-8-26
XFX 8800 GTS (my 9800 gtx+ died)
1x WD 500gb HDD
1x Samsung 1tb HDD
Furry pocket bike
True120 + tricool
Lots of lights and led fans.
Check out his build in full detail here. (Yes, we know that this mod is from nearly a year ago, but true coolness is timeless.)
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Amazing now how fast does it go?
Who owns a furry bike? LOL
Does it play Crysis ?
With an 8800 GTS, probably not very well
does it run on gas?lol
Now he needs to replace the windshield with an LCD. A few moto racing games and this would be amazing.
Yo dawg, we gave you a PC in your bike so you can play games while you pretend to ride bike.
I thought that was a can of Mountain Dew at first and was going to comment that the guy is now double-geek cool.
Zooming in it's Canada Dry Ginger Ale.
Epic Fail.
Sure you guys can laugh but I can tell you nothing beats the feel of 2.6 Ghz of raw multicore hyperthreaded power between your legs.
Who owns a furry bike? LOL
Seems like the person who modded the furry bike did.
His system's bottleneck is the muffler. And I wonder how his RAM timing interferes with his ignition timing :-/
Aww, I was expecting a tiny computer built into a drivable bicycle.
Guess that that would be too hard.
Hm. Seems like all he needs to do now is mount a projector to the front and mod a keyboard/mouse and he has a complete system.
wow, this would make it so much easier to move your computer to and from lan parties. you can just roll it there and roll it back
a fast vehicle converted to a fast computer. woot
Cool. let's ride the internet
Interesting, I have seen comments editted or deleted for inflamatory content when they have racist or homophobic content, or links to terrorist sites etc, but I have never seen a comment deleted before because it contained the phrase "can it play crysis" as was done for Ulysses35.
Moderator control freak?
Expect this comment to be deleted soon as well, Tom's is no longer a place of free expression, the increase of forum mods has turned the place into a Police State.
By all means allow the forum posters to thumb down the comment beyond -4 so it is hidden - but unilateral deletion? OTT and you know it.
Very Creative to say the least... I hope his ride was broken-down before he just gutted the thing LOL.
Second Pic 7/27/2006. Isnt that a little dated to have an i7-920? Or is there a Flux Capacitor in there too LMAO. I wanna see that baby hit 88MPH!
Interesting, I have seen comments editted or deleted for inflamatory content when they have racist or homophobic content, or links to terrorist sites etc, but I have never seen a comment deleted before because it contained the phrase "can it play crysis" as was done for Ulysses35.
Moderator control freak?
Expect this comment to be deleted soon as well, Tom's is no longer a place of free expression, the increase of forum mods has turned the place into a Police State.
By all means allow the forum posters to thumb down the comment beyond -4 so it is hidden - but unilateral deletion? OTT and you know it.
One of the editors put out an article not too long ago, telling people to stop with the 'can it play crisis' comments. If someone does it, and it's reported, we'll remove it.
It's not like it's a real thought out and ground breaking comment, that's going to contribute to any sort of conversation piece.
Speaking of "riding the internet", let's build a PC in a surfboard and ...
I dunno, throw an alienware laptop in a backpack and jump on a Honda 1000RR would have been more practical and faster but his is still a cool mod.
The modder should have left it in its furry config. That would have made it more pimp-tastic.
It's not like it's a real thought out and ground breaking comment, that's going to contribute to any sort of conversation piece.
You may as well delete 90% of the comments from every story
That bike is a 6 GHz bike...nice ride
And it really is 6 GHz, Hz=fps, so do the math.
I thought that was a can of Mountain Dew at first and was going to comment that the guy is now double-geek cool.Zooming in it's Canada Dry Ginger Ale.Epic Fail.
hahahahahha that comment made me spit up my lunch. Well played sir.
On another note... does this not appear to be a giant waste of space? Just... just saying.
This has got to be the coolest case mod ever. Next I want to see a Thuban system inside of a tricycle.
One of the editors put out an article not too long ago, telling people to stop with the 'can it play crisis' comments. If someone does it, and it's reported, we'll remove it.It's not like it's a real thought out and ground breaking comment, that's going to contribute to any sort of conversation piece.
Memes always follow the same progression. Funny at first, then overused, then downright annoying, eventually it goes away and is occasionally brought up by people trying to relive the glory of the original.
Fighting a meme that started (I think?) on your website is counter productive. Just be happy that your site is popular enough to garner its own fad. If the community thinks the meme has played out, they'll downrank the comments to oblivion and people will get the message. Crysis comments have already gone from being mentioned many times in every article to being mentioned only every 10th article or so.
*EDIT* spelling fixed.
hahahahahha that comment made me spit up my lunch. Well played sir.On another note... does this not appear to be a giant waste of space? Just... just saying.
Obviously not, otherwise the comment would have been e...
...then add the square root and that expertly defines how divide by zero.
Did you get all that?
Sure you guys can laugh but I can tell you nothing beats the feel of 2.6 Ghz of raw multicore hyperthreaded power between your legs.
That's what she said.
Obviously not, otherwise the comment would have been e...
...then add the square root and that expertly defines how divide by zero.
Did you get all that?
You're making a big deal out of a garbage post being removed. An editor said not to do it, a member reported it, so I removed it. You're only making yourself look like a fool for crying about it being removed.
Who owns a furry bike? LOL
There was a sportbike stunt group (read: Tw*ts wheelying Down The Highways At Stupid Speeds") from Florida named 'Starboyz' who used to cover their sportbikes in fur/carpeting both as a means hide and to hold together all the shattered bodywork they got from crashing.
Though I suppose if you're stupid enough to wheely through traffic down Interstate 95 at 100+ Mile an Hour speeds, than covering your bike in Fur is pretty minor in comparison.
I heard they were trying to "go legit" and opening a school to teach stunting.
Nice mod.
gives new meaning to the phrase "zoom zoom zoom"