The question is: did I overdo it? Well, the Bike had to be rigid enough to support some kind of movable puppet. Still, it had to be styrofoam-based puppet, because everything heavier would flip over that narow base. I've been lucky to find early enough, one toy bike in the right scale to use it as a basis for my schratchbuilt. Toy bike was based on a mountain-bike model, which wasn't compatible design-wise, so I had to discard the steering column and sand-down the shock absorbers. Also, that toy bike didn't have any fenders or lights, have been missing it's seat, also missed the drive chain (which rendered the whole transmission unusefull), and had distinctive toylike fat strings on wheels. Those wheel strings alone would give-away it's source, but more importantly, the wheels simply looked bad, toy-like, and generic. It's quite possible that I didn't need this nuveau of execution to the transmission set. But, this part wasn't so difficult to produce. I think it was worth the effort - I've used the Bike in some five shots and it worked flawlessly. My only regret is that, due to the lack of time, I didn't overpaint it in some other color for at least some of the shots.