My next bike will be wood.

http://www.homestead.com/bikerodnkustom/woodeye.html

Anyone have experience riding bikes made of wood? What are the riding
characteristics?

Callistus Valerius wrote:
http://www.homestead.com/bikerodnkustom/woodeye.html

Anyone have experience riding bikes made of wood? What are the riding
characteristics?
Sort of like a Trek OCLV: "wooden".


Hehehehe

Callistus Valerius wrote:
http://www.homestead.com/bikerodnkustom/woodeye.html
Anyone have experience riding bikes made of wood? What are the riding
characteristics?

Over a hundred years ago there was a manufacturer of them
three blocks from here -as in most small Midwest towns at
the time. Cast iron joints were fitted with maple because
they had a lot of it (period houses within a couple of
miles of here, like my 1904, have all maple floors because
it was both cheap and available.)

--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

Callistus Valerius wrote:
http://www.homestead.com/bikerodnkustom/woodeye.html

Anyone have experience riding bikes made of wood? What are the riding
characteristics?

A guy I work with at my shop took a steel frame, cut up the seatstays, the
top tube, and the downtube, and inserted wooden dowels into the tubes. He
glued them in and the bike broke several months after he built it. He, of
course, was running coaster brakes.

He's still riding it... the top tube snapped, but he took a pair of axles
and braced the headtube and top tube with them using duct tape. Needless to
say, it flexes... a LOT. Simply turning rapidly left and right seems to
bring the bike close to natural frequency, and the video of the
Tacoma-Narrows Bridge flashes in my mind.
--
Phil, Squid-in-Training

Phil, Squid-in-Training wrote:
Callistus Valerius wrote:
http://www.homestead.com/bikerodnkustom/woodeye.html

Anyone have experience riding bikes made of wood? What are the
riding characteristics?

A guy I work with at my shop took a steel frame, cut up the
seatstays, the top tube, and the downtube, and inserted wooden dowels
into the tubes. He glued them in and the bike broke several months
after he built it. He, of course, was running coaster brakes.

He's still riding it... the top tube snapped, but he took a pair of
axles and braced the headtube and top tube with them using duct tape.
Needless to say, it flexes... a LOT. Simply turning rapidly left and
right seems to bring the bike close to natural frequency, and the
video of the Tacoma-Narrows Bridge flashes in my mind.

I forgot to add that once the bike flexed so much that his properly
tensioned chain hopped off the cog on the coaster brake hub, and he was left
brakeless going ridiculously fast through an intersection. No accident
though.
--
Phil, Squid-in-Training

Phil, Squid-in-Training wrote:

...
I forgot to add that once the bike flexed so much that his properly
tensioned chain hopped off the cog on the coaster brake hub, and he was left
brakeless going ridiculously fast through an intersection. No accident
though.

Riding without redundant braking on public roads is idiotic.

--
Tom Sherman - Near Rock Island

On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 01:39:55 -0600, A Muzi
wrote:

Callistus Valerius wrote:
http://www.homestead.com/bikerodnkustom/woodeye.html
Anyone have experience riding bikes made of wood? What are the riding
characteristics?

Over a hundred years ago there was a manufacturer of them
three blocks from here -as in most small Midwest towns at
the time. Cast iron joints were fitted with maple because
they had a lot of it (period houses within a couple of
miles of here, like my 1904, have all maple floors because
it was both cheap and available.)

Dear Andrew,

Around 1950, James Philips arrived in Burma during a civial
war to take over running the national airline. At Mingaladon
Aerodrome, he briskly instructed a crew of carpenters to
build some rough-and-ready plywood partitions for clerical
offices.

After the worried carpenters conferred, their chief
hesitantly approached the busy Philips to explain that
plywood was extremely expensive, but perhaps teak would be
an acceptable substitute?

Startled, but amused, Philips told the carpenter fine, use
whatever cheap local material was available.

Carl Fogel

"Phil, Squid-in-Training" writes:

Callistus Valerius wrote:
http://www.homestead.com/bikerodnkustom/woodeye.html

Anyone have experience riding bikes made of wood? What are the riding
characteristics?

A guy I work with at my shop took a steel frame, cut up the seatstays, the
top tube, and the downtube, and inserted wooden dowels into the tubes. He
glued them in and the bike broke several months after he built it. He, of
course, was running coaster brakes.

I played with the idea of doing something similar once, briefly. The thought of
where pointy, sharp, broken dowels might end up put the thought out of
my mind.

I played with the idea of doing something similar once, briefly. The
thought of
where pointy, sharp, broken dowels might end up put the thought out of
my mind.

Have you ever seen someone sliced up by sharp carbon fiber?

Seriously, have you? John