On any given school day, you might spot something unusual rolling across the EMS quad: a bicycle that looks like it missed a memo about gravity.<\/p>\n
Perched high above everyone else, 51ÁÔÆæ mechanical engineering senior Wynn Grame pedals to class on a homemade double-decker bike \u2013 two frames stacked into one towering ride that stops people mid-step and mid-scroll.<\/p>\n
Getting onto the top seat is part mountaineer, part engineer, and all confidence. Grame starts by walking the bike forward, then steps onto a low wooden slat, grabs hold, and climbs the frame as the bike slowly moves forward.<\/p>\n
Like most good engineering projects, the bike started as an idea that refused to go away.<\/p>\n
\u201cI saw an image of a double-decker bike like this, and it just stuck in my head,\u201d Grame said. And after friends donated one bike and then another, he said, \u201cThen, I just had to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Inspiration was the easy part. Execution is where things got interesting. Before this project, Grame had never welded. Not once.<\/p>\n
\u201cI used a friend\u2019s borrowed welder to learn a new skill and make some mistakes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n