"The Porcellio"

[EdgarS]

Hi, this will be my first entry.. and also a first time custom building a metal fame bike. I made one out of plywood, but it was ready before build off, so I started " The Porcellio"

 

[LukeTheJoker]

Welcome to the forum and the build-off!

Luke.

 

[Funkme]

Welcome to the build off,hope you have a lot of fun...

 

[kingfish254]

Welcome to RRB and the Build Off.
You may want to play around with your image posting. Right now only thumbnails are being displayed and people have to click each pic to see it.
Have fun!

 

[kingfish254]

I just noticed on the BOTEN map that you are located in Tallinn, Estonia. What an awesome city!!!! My wife and I were there for Christmas in 2012

 

[EdgarS]

Ok, i'll try to make my future picture posting better.
Thank you.

I agree, the city is great!

 

[EdgarS]

I managed to build a little today.

I bought a bottombracket, and lucky me- this one is just the one you can press into your BB shell, because if only tool you have is a screwdriwer then makeing English threads is pretty hard! so i cutted a piece of pipe- inner diameter 40mm. and voila! it fits! (its not pressed together yet)

Nice welding ay?

Also got some tires and new, not so fat rims just a simple 36 spoke ones.
I will paint the rims red and the tires are brown.

To make things more interesting and challenging, I will try to make my spring system for front fork something like this:

I hope this will work!

and the last thing for today is my super fantastic fork )

Only thing i am worrying right now is the handlebar. (pic. 1) I will need to bend it more in the future if i have measured where my hands will be, but today i bended it.. and i think the bottom part down there is little short. :S almost like a full V

Cheers!

 

[LukeTheJoker]

To make things more interesting and challenging, I will try to make my spring system for front fork something like this:

I hope this will work!

Ooooo! An extension spring fork! Cool, I have thought about trying that for a while now, looking forward to seeing it happen!

Luke.

 

[OddJob]

Very inventive bike build! Welcome to the RRB and I look forward to watching your progress.....

 

[The Renaissance Man]

Looking forward to the fork! Have fun.

 

[EdgarS]

Thanks for the support!

 

[EdgarS]

My wheels, and the spring system. (soon i will remove the tape)

And this will be basically the final bike, only the wooden part is not installed yet. The handlebar and saddle right now is only for test drive. And ofcourse I need a paint job.

So I also made a video, Hope you can see the springs in action!



See you soon!

 

[LukeTheJoker]

Looks cool! Looks even better rolling!

Luke.

 

[EdgarS]

I also had a little time to spray the frame,
Little bit more and its done.

 

[Kevin Kanouff]

Looks great. Love the colors, tires and fork design.

 

[The Renaissance Man]

I wondered about how soft the springs would be. looks like they're just right! Good work.

 

[LukeTheJoker]

Long and low!

Luke.

 

[EdgarS]

I wondered about how soft the springs would be. looks like they're just right! Good work.

Story with the springs is that.. i first had springs that were too soft.. i could easyly push them wery low.. but then i bought a scale with a spring inside you know.. and it was max. 50kg or 112 pounds.. so i cut the spring half and now i have 50+50 kg. And its working
Its hard for me to find good and suitable springs.

 

[LukeTheJoker]

I was thinking they were trampoline springs...

Luke.

 

[EdgarS]

I was thinking they were trampoline springs...

Luke.

I thought about these.. but they sell them only online and there was no info about strenght. I wantet to touch first.