Daddy Long Legs (former Thin legged cruiser)

[G-Matt]

Lol Tom


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[boro]

While I'm waiting for my tubes to cross the English channel Im doing stuff on my rat rod. How do you like this shifter for shimano nexus 8?

 

[gowjobs]

Original, and very trick.

 

[boro]

Today I've got some more parts! Disc brakes!

 

[Kevin Kanouff]

Today I've got some more parts! Disk brakes!

Wait- disk brakes?

 

[boro]

Wait- disk brakes?

Yeah! It will be a fast bike!

 

[LukeTheJoker]

Love disc brakes!

Luke.

 

[Kevin Kanouff]

Yeah! It will be a fast bike!

I like this bike more and more!

 

[boro]

Hello again!
Finally I've got my tubes I've ordered to make this build

1500mm of CrMo beauty !!!
But I've run in another problem pretty fast :banghead:. It is impossible to find a place to bend them over here where I wouldn't have to get a mortgage.
So that's what I've came up with:

Basically it's the same lines, just instead of smooth curves I'll make some polygon approximation.
It will look kind of edgy
It'll take me to cut tubes at some angle and braze them together to create the "curves" I need.
That's what I've managed to finish today

As the polygon I've used to substitute circles has 18 sides I shall name this bike Octadecagon
ALL HAIL OCTADECAGON!

 

[G-Matt]

Are you a geometry teacher by day & welder by night ? [emoji106][emoji92]


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[boro]

Nah! That are just leftovers from my engineering degree
btw, it's noon over here.

 

[G-Matt]

Well you look like you know what your doing . Or if like me fake it really good when you need to . Where are you any way ?


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[boro]

Zaragoza, Spain!

 

[G-Matt]

Very cool good afternoon, & nice work [emoji41]


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[Fruttolo]

This polygon way to "bend" tubes is wicked but cool props for the idea, it will look very unconventional!

 

[Schwinnspastic]

Very interesting and this method of shaping the tubes would work great with spider webbing interconnecting the tubes, I might have to try that in the future.
Mark

 

[kingfish254]

Nice improvising!
Are you cutting individual sections or just notching out little wedges and making the bend?

 

[boro]

Nice improvising!
Are you cutting individual sections or just notching out little wedges and making the bend?

I'm cutting them in small pieces shaped like this /____\

 

[boro]

Finally Ive managed to get my "curved" tubes done. Now it's time to miter and get them in my jig

 

[LukeTheJoker]

Impressive jig!
Is that the one that was offered on KickStarter?

Luke.