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So, now onto the more interesting bit..... the next project!
This has been bubbling away for a few months without any action but I'm about to start Mk2. What'll change?
Well for the past few months I've had an engineering student at Oxford University (seriously!) doing a masters thesis in optimising the stiffness/ strength to weight ratio of wooden tubes. This isn't finished yet and has a few months left to go but should be interesting putting some of the theory into action. I've also procured the use of a CNC machine so we can build it faster and to better tolerances.
Aim is to get to as close to 1.5kg as possible for the frame without compromising stiffness. I very crudely tested the stiffness of my current frame against a friends Cervelo S3 and the wooden frame is undoubtably stiffer. It does weigh twice as much though. But that tells me that I could do exactly the same again, thin the tubes to reduce the weight and it would still be stiff enough. And that's before we've applied any of the research that we've done.
Watch this space................