Archive for the ‘Aspire!’ Category

Go Green— Electric Bicycle for Business and Pleasure

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

Bike to work or for pleasure and exercise with DIY electric motor assist. Start a business adding electric motor assist to your neighbors bicycles. It’s the kind of business that easily grows through word of mouth, and it’s as Green as they come.

If you are interested in electric bike DIY, check this out.

If you want to start a business converting existing bikes, check this out, as well, for reasons why it’s a great idea.

For an amazing amount of information about electric assist bikes and their components, see this.

See many more DIY projects and ideas at our website.

UPDATE- Convert (Compact) Cars to Electric Vehicles

Thursday, June 12th, 2008
Nowadays, we’re almost all wishing for an electric car or a magic carpet. Stop wishing and start doing. For the basics, here’s an excellent intro to the possibilities from TreeHugger.com. Use a kit, hire a high school grease monkey, or take it to a conversion shop. Next, do a Google on ‘Convert auto to electric’ for more info. The results may not look like the pic below, but it will definitely put a smile on your face.

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Have the technical skills? Tools? Space? Buy used compact cars, convert and sell them locally as low-cost utility cars. You’ll have to check first on Red Tape and Regulations, but this could be the small business you need or want. The demand is high!

DoDesignDIY.com— Redesigned and Redone

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

I have been hard at work reDIYing the DoDesignDIY.com site, and now it’s online.  It has been redesigned to enable your faster scanning for items of interest and for page printout onto an 8.5×11 sheet. DIY projects of more than one page have been summarized on their site page and detailed illustrated plans are provided as downloadable Acrobat PDF files. New sections have been added, for Green Living, and Aspire!— unique DIY Challenges— projects you might want to tackle, many of which could form the basis of a small business. By June 30th, a Readers Forum will be added.ddd-store-screen.jpg