Recent content by bikewhorder

Being 49 years old and having been obsessed with bikes for the last 45 of them it's not often that I learn something new about them that kind of makes my head explode. Tonight I wanted to make sure I got the fork dropout location right. I started researching fork offsets just to see what the...

I fell well short of my goal to get all the fork parts glued up this weekend. It's going to take eight separate glueups to laminate all these parts. It was quite a wrestling match.Trying to get these parts to bend around this tight radius. I am currently one eighth of the way done. I did get my...

I'd be curious to see your wooden bike if you have a link to it.

I'm using west system epoxy. Some of these glue ups take about an hour to get together. You could never do this with a one part glue in my opinion. It's pretty expensive to buy in small quantities but the place that I work buys it in fifty five gallon drums.

Ayuh. A spiral cutter probably would have been a lot better but I couldn't find one with a bearing. I would definitely make sure you have a router with a speed control and go slow. It's pretty nasty but it works.

More glue ups tonight. This will be in between pieces for the fork "tusks" that the headset will attach to. I also decided this weekend that I need to remake my seat post Parts that I had already invested a good bit of time into. Due to multiple factors they are not going to work as made. I...

Ill admit I wasn't too sure about this idea but it's exciting to see it coming together. I was really nervous that I was going to invest all this time and energy (and money!) only for some unforeseen miscalculation to make it totally not work. Having access to some serious tools makes it...

My "headset" parts arrived today from mcmaster. Like everything about this bike it's a little unconventional. It's basically going to operate like a hinge instead of a traditional headset. It's going to consist of two sets of five 1/2 inch thick aluminum plates about seven inches long and two...

I did a little time lapse photo shoot of the glue up for the down tube. Also here's a picture of my top tube redo side by side. I'm glad I fixed it.I couldn't live with it like that.

Every weekend I think I'm going to get so much done, And then the weekend flies by and there's almost no progress. I was hoping to have all the frame and fork parts laminated by the end of january. We're getting into the end of february and i'm not even done with what actually is the easy part...

I got the second half of the down tube glued up tonight. I had to adjust my spacer block because it couldn't physically clamp to the first shape that I made and i'm glad it didn't because I like the second Iteration much better. If you look closely you can see the seam where I had to add a piece...

It's hard to resist the urge not to try to get a sneak peak of the form.

There's one quarter of the down tube glued up. I have to build that tube in quadrants. This is the one area of the bike where i'm going to "cheat" a little bit on my design theme. I need to open up the space where the bottom bracket shell goes. The theme of the bike is to have all the...

Well I was hoping to have a lot of visible progress after this weekend. That's not really the case, but I did get a lot of work done. I have all of the lumber milled and tapered now. And all of the frame molds are made. Hopefully I can pick away at it this week and get a bunch of laminations...

Yes that's kind of what I was drawing above but it gets complicated. I would definitely have to make them pivot somehow Moving parts are always difficult. It's definitely not impossible but I thinkI need to just stick with this design as drawn and not try to change it too much. One of the...