
Vehicles · Built from a recipe
Bicycle
E6 on the major comb. Its drum rings at 2452.5 Hz.
A bicycle has two wheels, one behind the other, and pedals that turn a chain, which turns the back wheel.
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- Vehicles
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Sound
- Yes
- Hands-on
- Yes
- Licenses
- CC0
Its note
Splashery stretches a drumhead over this Splash's outline, twelve inches across, and finds the ways it can ring. Its lowest is 2452.5 Hz, 1074 cents sharp of E6, the nearest tine on the comb. The next fifteen are its overtones, and each one draws its own figure: sand gathers on the lines that stay still.

- 12453 Hz
- 22814 Hz
- 32973 Hz
- 43056 Hz
- 53180 Hz
- 63292 Hz
- 73317 Hz
- 83334 Hz
- 93374 Hz
- 103442 Hz
- 113458 Hz
- 123465 Hz
- 133606 Hz
- 143608 Hz
- 153635 Hz
- 163676 Hz
How to play
Tap it to ring the bell and spin the wheels.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ring the bell | Tap | ||
| Bell | Button | ||
| Frame | Color | #1e88e5 |
About it
A bicycle has two wheels, one behind the other, and pedals that turn a chain, which turns the back wheel. It stays up while it moves, because the rider keeps steering the front wheel a little under the bike, balancing it without thinking. The first bicycles with pedals were built in France in the 1860s.
Tap it: the bell shakes and rings, the wheels spin through five fast turns, and the pedals go around twice. Bicycles are among the most efficient ways to travel ever invented: a rider uses less energy to go a mile than a walker does. Pick the color of the frame in the Splash tab.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 59,000 at Low, and up to 550,000 at Max
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| Bicycle Bell.wav (bicycle-bell.mp3) | PanosA | CC0 1.0 |



