Comments on: Den Vaffel Bike

Den Vaffel Bike

photoslob — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:08:08 -0800

Waffle Bike is a fully weaponized waffle-making machine. (SLYT)

By: middleclasstool

middleclasstool — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:25:15 -0800

That woman's creaky voice/accent combo make her sound like the daughter of Dr. Henry Killinger. I am Dr. Henrietta Killinger, and this is my Magic Waffle Bike.

By: schwa

schwa — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:27:33 -0800

Look how silly we can be!

By: middleclasstool

middleclasstool — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:27:58 -0800

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By: nanojath

nanojath — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:28:40 -0800

I'm pretty sure it qualifies as animal cruelty to force a couple of innocent chickens to participate in a Neistat Brothers film.

By: mannequito

mannequito — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:36:14 -0800

Waffle Bike's pretty cool but .... it'd be a lot cooler with a sidecar-lion

By: Paid In Full

Paid In Full — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:47:13 -0800

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By: ZaneJ.

ZaneJ. — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:56:15 -0800

I can't seem to say why, but I get this incredibly strong feeling of hate when watching that video. Weird...

By: Cranberry

Cranberry — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:58:01 -0800

Must have! Although I would want the speaker mast hinged so the bike could be parked in the garage in case the shotgun and machete were not sufficient to defend against theft. If the chickens did not produce, the bike could always be ridden to the nearest IHOP.

By: everichon

everichon — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:59:18 -0800

Fuck the bike, I just want waffles. Bike-fucking not legal in all countries, proceed at your own risk.

By: boo_radley

boo_radley — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:05:14 -0800

Waffles: Hell Yes. Waffle Bike: Fuck Yes.

By: the painkiller

the painkiller — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:10:29 -0800

the heck with the muezzin, just have that woman's voice coming out of the pa system. "zis is zee vaaafelbike, it is biking araoun' your naybohood fully prepaayered to make yu tasty vaaafels. pleese enchoy zem." also, i am very excited about putting a machete on my bike now. i think that is the real innovation here.

By: elwoodwiles

elwoodwiles — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:11:41 -0800

I have mixed feelings. One one hand this is just more of the same rich-kid post-po-mo hipster shit, on the other hand the guy has two sawed off shotguns mounted to his bike frame. I have to admit I smiled a bit at the dead-pan presentation of the weapons. So, all in all, annoying, but with glimmering bits of heavily armed waffles I'll give this one a pass.

By: Artw

Artw — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:13:10 -0800

That bike is well weapon!

By: boo_radley

boo_radley — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:13:42 -0800

wafflebike 2.0 will use waffles as munitions.

By: Missiles K. Monster

Missiles K. Monster — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:16:26 -0800

The fact that the waffle iron and speakers draw their power from a diesel generator seems all kinds of wrong to me. Isn't the whole purpose of a waffle-bike to combine the twin joys of wafflemaking and bicycling? The waffle-iron ought to be pedal-powered, perhaps augmented with solar.

By: mr_roboto

mr_roboto — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:23:07 -0800

The waffle-iron ought to be pedal-powered, perhaps augmented with solar. A good waffle iron will draw at least 750 W (more like 1200 if you really want to get the job done). No way to do that with pedals, even if you have a good-sized portable solar array to go with it.

By: The Light Fantastic

The Light Fantastic — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:25:03 -0800

Brilliant...simply brilliant! All it needs is a fold out tent, and it would provide everything necessary for existence. The shotguns could be used to hunt small game when waffles run low. The manure from the chickens could be used to start a small container garden behind the seat.

By: kcds

kcds — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:25:04 -0800

In ~~Soviet Union~~Sweden, waffle-bike weaponizes you!

By: Artw

Artw — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:27:44 -0800

Ah, sweet sweet Soviet Sweden.

By: chillmost

chillmost — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:29:56 -0800

Yeah right, just go ahead and try to take that guy's waffles.

By: Artw

Artw — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:30:42 -0800

The waffle-iron ought to be pedal-powered, perhaps augmented with solar. Much as I approve of such renewable energy sources they simply don't have the required power output. May I suggest a small RTG unit powered by plutonium-238?

By: RokkitNite

RokkitNite — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:34:21 -0800

Much as I approve of such renewable energy sources they simply don't have the required power output. May I suggest a small RTG unit powered by plutonium-238? Don't worry. Just 7 more years before Mr Fusion gets released and we can power the whole thing on banana peels and other household waste.

By: rusty

rusty — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:52:07 -0800

The Light Fantastic: It would also be pretty easy to mount a small worm composter on there somewhere, and grow some greens and small veggies directly in the compost. Compostable worm food could be obtained from any number of dumpsters etc. Waffles and salad. And shotguns.

By: Daddy-O

Daddy-O — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:59:05 -0800

They have gotten chicken and waffles completely wrong.

By: quin

quin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:11:31 -0800

The way the narrator detailed the technical specifications of the bike and the models of the equipment involved in that husky and slightly cold, emotionless voice was just crazy sexy. I want to listen to her read all my firearm and equipment manuals as I fall asleep at night.

By: grounded

grounded — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:13:16 -0800

Norway... nul points!

By: ericbop

ericbop — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:31:13 -0800

Brilliant. Totally brilliant. If Mad Max (or the Lone Biker of the Apocalypse) had worked at IHOP... As for pedal-power, Starbucks has a bike-powered blender that people line up around the block to make their own frapuccinos at the Celebrate Brooklyn concerts in Prospect Park. This movie is the exact opposite of that.

By: ardgedee

ardgedee — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:37:58 -0800

Hold on. This movie is by those guys? My waffle just got cold and I lost my appetite.

By: gnutron

gnutron — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:59:19 -0800

but... it doesn't shoot waffles? meh.

By: Grimp0teuthis

Grimp0teuthis — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:06:15 -0800

This is pretty stupid. After all that effort, you just throw the eggs in with some Aunt Jemima mix? If you're going to make waffles in an outrageous way, why not bike around the city and pick up eggs from 2 brooklyn chickens, milk from somewhere else, batter ingredients from somewhere else, etc? The end product of all this construction and filmmaking is unremarkable waffles and a meaningless mix of cultural items and a couple of weapons. They didn't even bring joy to people by offering them waffles. This didn't get beyond the "wouldn't it be cool if...?" stage.

By: The Light Fantastic

The Light Fantastic — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:09:14 -0800

Waffles and salad. And shotguns. Oh my!

By: fixedgear

fixedgear — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:12:05 -0800

Wanted to love it, because it's about a bike and all, but...sadly, no.

By: elwoodwiles

elwoodwiles — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:13:40 -0800

Hmmmm. MeThinks this is more about making a movie than making a Waffle Bike. As a short, it has its moments (Guns!) It also has it weaknesses (Hipsters!) Of course the bike is stupid, it's supposed to be. ardgedee, I'm mostly unaware of the Neistat Brothers and their, um, "work. Why do they turn you off?

By: zippy

zippy — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:30:50 -0800

220V, a metal bike, a live chicken, and a PA system playing a call to prayer. What could possibly go wrong?

By: clearly

clearly — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:35:38 -0800

The Honda Harmony em2500 generator. So quiet, you wont hear it over the prayer blasted out of the PA system.

By: Guy_Inamonkeysuit

Guy_Inamonkeysuit — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:41:55 -0800

I like it, but then... I sorta don't. * Waffling *

By: boo_radley

boo_radley — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:45:54 -0800

fixedgear, why do you hate waffles?

By: brevator

brevator — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:50:35 -0800

people it is still okay to hate- rich kids hipsters artists people assumed to be any of the above.

By: Samizdata

Samizdata — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:53:46 -0800

Oh. You close the waffle iron. That explains so much.

By: fixedgear

fixedgear — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:30:34 -0800

fixedgear, why do you hate waffles? It's not that I hate waffles, it's that I love pancakes.

By: middleclasstool

middleclasstool — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:33:01 -0800

Bah. Waffles are clearly superior to flimsy, soggy pancakes.

By: brevator

brevator — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:57:29 -0800

two words: french toast.

By: mdonley

mdonley — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:27:44 -0800

I'm not really digging the whole call to prayer thing.

By: you

you — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:49:53 -0800

waffle machine

By: fuzzypantalones

fuzzypantalones — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:58:40 -0800

oh cool. i've seen some of tom sachs' art before. he makes a bunch of other stuff thats pretty neat.

By: dobbs

dobbs — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:30:41 -0800

That was genius. I was stunned to see the idiot manchild Neistat Brothers were attached.

By: autodidact

autodidact — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:33:59 -0800

Genius? This was retarded and I was completely unsurprised when I saw the Neistat bros. credit. This is a study in how to go nowhere with a concept.

By: ryanrs

ryanrs — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:51:18 -0800

I preferred the exploding banana movie.

By: martinX's bellbottoms

martinX's bellbottoms — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:29:32 -0800

I was sad to learn that I'm no longer the only person who mixes waffle batter in a nalgene bottle.