Tag: bike
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homemade bike frame bags
In one week (eek, so soon!!) I will go on a long bike ride with Muffin. The plan is to post details of our adventure on amybikessomewhere.wordpress.com This weekend I worked on some bike frame bags to help free up some space in my rear panniers. Here is the result: The small top tube bag […]
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bamboo bike Part 5: final sanding/finishing and assembly
In hindsight, I definitely applied too many separate layers than was necessary. This also meant that I sanded more than was necessary, and used more epoxy than was necessary. Anyhow, at last I arrived at the last layer: Although I always have random bike parts, I rarely have a full (compatible) set. I was very […]
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bamboo bike Part 1: Frame-building Jig
Almost 9 months ago I built a frame jig for a bamboo bike. Between work and life, I didn’t actually finish the bike until Thansgiving, and I’m only getting around to blogging about it now. Here’s the finished bike: I’ve wanted to build a bamboo bike for a long time. More than a year ago, […]
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pF: hub motor complete, mostly
Lots of stuff happened between that and the last post, here’s what: Last time we finished machining the rotor mostly, so now onto the stator. I confess that it crossed my mind to put the stator adapter in a mill, indicate its center, and CNC the screw hole pattern. But who am I kidding, clamping […]
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Small Bike (part II)
Small Bike (part I) covered most of the front end and the dropouts. Next I worked on the front and rear forks, which were very similar. Both are essentially 2 dimensional shapes. So I cut them on a waterjet, and then used a boring head on a mill the clean up the tube clamps. For […]