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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? |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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"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. |
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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? |
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Seriously, have you? John
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