{"id":11422,"date":"2014-08-20T13:17:18","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T12:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.compositestoday.com\/?p=11422"},"modified":"2014-08-20T13:43:28","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T12:43:28","slug":"commute-in-prehistoric-style-on-this-homemade-raptor-trike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.compositestoday.com\/2014\/08\/commute-in-prehistoric-style-on-this-homemade-raptor-trike\/","title":{"rendered":"Commute in Prehistoric Style on This Homemade Raptor Trike"},"content":{"rendered":"

Norwegian artist Markus Moestue<\/a> has hand-made this Raptor trike\u00a0to go on a trip across Norway<\/h3>\n

The Raptors head body and legs was made from large blocks of styrofoam that were hand-carved to get the required shape. This was then covered with epoxy glue and glass fibre before painting in the dino colours and adding the finer details like teeth and dripping saliva.<\/p>\n

Once completed\u00a0the Cretaceous critter was then fitted to\u00a0the vehicle\u2019s frame which was welded together from three different bicycle sections. Moestue told designboom<\/a> The trike was created for a trip across the bible belt in Norway to protest against the dogmatic religious education of children.<\/p>\n

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Norwegian artist Markus Moestue has hand-made this Raptor trike\u00a0to go on a trip across Norway The Raptors head body and legs was made from large blocks of styrofoam that were hand-carved to get the required shape. This was then covered with epoxy glue and glass fibre before painting in the dino colours and adding the finer details like teeth and dripping saliva. Once completed\u00a0the Cretaceous critter was then fitted to\u00a0the vehicle\u2019s frame which was welded together from three different bicycle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":11427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[449,383,382],"tags":[193],"class_list":["post-11422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-bicycles","category-showcase","tag-glassfibre"],"yoast_head":"\nCommute in Prehistoric Style on This Homemade Raptor Trike<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Norwegian artist Markus Moestue has hand made this Raptor trike to go 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