Wooden Road Bike
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lotharko
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It rides like a road bike.
It is a bit more sensitive in crosswinds, but that is easy to control and not a problem.
Grant Fondo
Guru
Is the rear mudguard structural?
carpiste
Guru
Bamboo Bicycle Club
Home - my Boo | bamboo bike, bikes – Kiel, Germany (my-boo.com)
Love wooden/ bamboo bikes but not that keen on the diy aspect!
All credit to you for the build. Great job!
Home - my Boo | bamboo bike, bikes – Kiel, Germany (my-boo.com)
Love wooden/ bamboo bikes but not that keen on the diy aspect!
All credit to you for the build. Great job!
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lotharko
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It flexes a bit, it's wood after all. About +- 5 mm.
A glued-in adapter tube BB30 -> BSA.
No, it has no structural function. This photo was taken in wintertime. It is only mounted for this season.
twentysix by twentyfive
Clinging on tightly
Wooden wheels, sprockets, rings and chain next 
neil_merseyside
Guru
Beautiful bit of bike art but other than that I wonder just why? Steel is just so recyclable, as is Ti and Ally, and whilst I think some of it would biodegrade that's really only the wood fibres and not the resins. Look fab displayed on a wall.
ClichéGuevara
Legendary Member
It'll need decent tyres, as wooden roads can be very slippery when wet.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
What is "air ply"?
Edit: is it a super quality thin ply for sheathing DIY bonkers small aircraft?
Edit: is it a super quality thin ply for sheathing DIY bonkers small aircraft?
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*googles*
*comes back*
Airply? This stuff? https://www.laminateworks.com/products/airply
I've been pondering something like that to make a Lotus look-a-bit-alike-if-you-squint, after I had a look at the construction of a Mosquito at the deHavilland museum at London Colney. They used a ply-and-balsa sandwich to get decent strength and stiffness.
Like I didn't have enough daft things to be attempting...
*comes back*
Airply? This stuff? https://www.laminateworks.com/products/airply
I've been pondering something like that to make a Lotus look-a-bit-alike-if-you-squint, after I had a look at the construction of a Mosquito at the deHavilland museum at London Colney. They used a ply-and-balsa sandwich to get decent strength and stiffness.
Like I didn't have enough daft things to be attempting...
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lotharko
Active Member
Sorry, I should have written aircraft plywood. That is still an approved material for aircraft construction today. I use mostly the 3 layer 1.5 mm thick variety.
Here is the interior view of a box girder for my current four-wheel build. The girder has the dimension 1150x140x80mm. The top and bottom chords are 4.5mm thick, the side walls 1.5mm + an inner layer (XXX) for torsion reinforcement. Weight of the beam 1.5 kg, calculated load capacity 500 kg.
