Current Projects chat and miscellany

One more.

Looks shit.

You should PM me the link.

I know, will turn it into a tallbike together with the ESA.

off to pick up my project pinarello frame tomorrow! very excited so fiddle with it, hope i did my measurements right though :/ details to follow

Looks shit.

You should PM me the link.

Fire it my way. You have enough nice bikes.

That goes for you too.

Bike hogs.

Buy ALL the 58cm bikes!

I actually meant on the top of the tt, almost inline with the etching on the train window. Looks cool though!

OIC, yeah the tubes are externally butted so shrink down in the middle.

That goes for you too.

Bike hogs.

Buy ALL the 58cm bikes!

Were you after my Condor?

I have always lusted after it. And it would probably like to come back home to Rollapaluza and Herne Hill. But that said, my Track Champion feels great and I probably couldn't afford it.

No worries, is not for sellz (:

^^^Fuck you Kerob! I was watching that on ebay. How much did you offer him to end the auction early?

I really wanted it

he PM'd me about it - he wanted £350 for it. I wanted it bad, but can't afford it this month.

Never mind. Plenty more bikes in the sea.

bikes in the sea.

Shit, I've been doing it wrong.

Spend the last couple of months building this:

Impressive stuff. Steel or Ti?

steel <3

Fillet brazed steel. Needs painting

you should post up a few of the process pics. it's a really nice project.

As you apply load via the cockpit and loadbay, flex will occur in the bottom tube at the joint with the vertical tube which houses the control-steerer.

This flex will allow the loadbay to apply a force rearwards across the unsupported vertical tube.

What force will this tube sustain at design capacity?

Changed the battery today.

FAO Dammit. Easy peasy.

As you apply load via the cockpit and loadbay, flex will occur in the bottom tube at the joint with the vertical tube which houses the control-steerer.

This flex will allow the loadbay to apply a force rearwards across the unsupported vertical tube.

What force will this tube sustain at design capacity?

Would a brace from the steerer/bottom tube junction to the center of the diagonal brace, or interceding the center brace from the steerer/bottom tube to the top tube/seat tube sort that easily enough if there was an issue?

Kick arse cargo bike though Hulsroy, very nice work, jelly of skillz and tools!

Ah no, would still leave the bottom tube flexing form load bay...

How does it ride Hulsroy?

Bike needs some Finite Element Analysis.

snores...

Changed the battery today.

FAO Dammit. Easy peasy.

;-)

As you apply load...

So basically you're suggesting that under load the bike might fold in two, hinging at the joint at the bottom of the control-steerer? Interesting.

Anyway, what a beautiful engineering accomplishment!

+1 for FEA. I once did FEA as a job and this'd be a lovely structure to model. But these days I haz no software and I'm not quite geeky enough to do it on paper, alas.