Wooden Road Bike
- Thread starter lotharko
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Cathryn
Legendary Member
- Location
- Marlborough, Wiltshire
It's beautiful. How does it ride?
Chris S
Legendary Member
- Location
- Birmingham
What's it like in a crosswind?
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lotharko
Active Member
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
- Location
- Cheshire
Is the rear mudguard structural?
carpiste
Guru
- Location
- Manchester
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
Active Member
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
- Location
- Over the Hill
Wooden wheels, sprockets, rings and chain next 
neil_merseyside
Guru
- Location
- Wirral
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
- Location
- Kingston upon the River Hull
It'll need decent tyres, as wooden roads can be very slippery when wet.
- Location
- The TerrorVortex
Looks a bit reminiscent of the old monocoque Hotta. This is a good thing.
*approves*
*approves*
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
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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- Location
- The TerrorVortex
*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.
