The last time I visited my parents, I had some free time on my hands. Inspired by Nathan’s post about bike sounds, I borrowed my brother’s racing bike and started recording. I grabbed some random stuff in our basement and tried to hold them against the bike wheel to create interesting sounds. If I had had more time to record, I could have gotten more and better sounds out of this session. At least this experiment gave me a couple of good sounds and more ideas to try at a later time.

Equipment: Rode NTG-3 -> Sound Devices 744T

The plastic flight of a dart made a screaming sound when held against the wheel at the correct angle:

The metal from a tealight:

I tried combining objects to get more interesting sounds. Cardboard and tealight metal in a metal pipe:

Cardboard from a milk carton:

A couple of more samples: