Finishing the bike

Once again I am almost ready to ride again! But, here are some steps I have taken differently. 1st I have lathed out dowels and split them so that I could accept the drop outs a bit more cleanly.

And then I started wrapping the joints with sisal, please keep in mind the this is a learning process and if it looks like i don’t know what I’m doing, its because i don’t.

UGLY. FLAT OUT

MAYBE BETTER…..

I CAN LIVE WITH THIS.

Any way in between this work and riding the old I got the chance to document the previous remains of the last iteration.

Its always good to be humbled! so laugh it up, I sure did. the problem I found really is something that I could have already figure out. lugging bamboo is a bad idea, especially if your plan is to sleeve it over an old rusty schwinn.  also, sand those joints! uftda.

So the bamboo didn’t fail. however, my craft did, and the wood slipped right out of the joint. Also you might like to know that some people complained about the strength or flexibility of the rear triangle. Well it took two people standing on the dropouts 400 pounds jumping up and down, to finally break the damn thing.  any way moving on here are some finished joints!

GOOD….

BETTER!

BEFORE AND AFTER.

FIN.

Well that’s all for right now, My next project is hopefully going to be a mountain bike, gotta chat with some people. please tear it apart, i need to make things better.

anton!