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In 2001 I made this couch for Leah and Damian. They used it in 2001 and 2002. It is powered by surplus bike electric motors that rub on the rear tires. Very simple design. They both said the couch ran great. I hardly believed them.

In 2003 they split up and gave the couch back to me.

I hadn't planned on going to BM2003 but almost at the last minute Perry said he wanted to go so I said why not, we already have a couch. Perry and I restored the mechanics over a couple of weekends. We learned that the couch was much faster with the batteries in series to make 24 volts instead of 12.

Year 2003:
With 24 volts the motors wore the tires out in about two hours. Both tires popped within minutes. Fortunately we were in Center Town and patched the tubes and hobbled home. The next day we went into Gerlach (or Whatever the name of that town is) and found a makeshift hardware store with several contraptions with tires that fit our couch. We thought we'd have to go all the way to Reno. You can see the blue buggy type thing in the center of the picture.
When They burned the man, we got there a little early in the couch but the rangers made all the vehicles move way back because the crowds might panic. So we could not see anything. I had a feeling that there were naked dancing girls with fire somewhere up front.
I was tempted to get off the couch.

So I started thinking.

We need some way to see over the crowds.

I remembered seeing a scissor lift like this one earlier in the day.

Finally I turned to Perry and said, "I've got nothing. How about you?"

Perry said, "Why don't you make a couch that raises up?"

I said, "Good idea ." And that is the story on the next page, 2004.

 
Couch lower right.