Re: It's been a long time coming
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Colinmclelland
Hi Mark,
Can you tell us more about the carbon dropouts in FNL?
It's been a lot more than a week but here they are:
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...49d3a936_c.jpg
Polydrops
Sorry but the combination of black dropouts on black carbon and my shit photography aren't going to light the world on fire.
They worked out well but the next frame will use Paragon's "Bolt On Brake Interface" which should be easier to adapt, I am hoping it work at least as well.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...2c00acdb_c.jpg
K_Bike_Scales
On the other hand, I believe this is the lightest wood frame yet made by some margin at 1056 g. My wife says I should have made it ten grams heavier.
I'd post a pic but I forgot to take any of the frame.
Re: It's been a long time coming
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Mark Kelly
It must be child sized though:laugh:
Like the BB evolution...took me a while but I finally got the 10g thing!
Re: It's been a long time coming
Small to medium, to fit a 165 cm rider.
Re the BB thing: thanks, this is my first attempt at something I am very hopeful for. It's an adaptation of yosegi zaiku, a traditional Japanese inlay technique. Each of the little bands is a separate strip of wood ~1mm wide, the thicker bands are simply two strips, so there are 30 to 40 individual pieces in each tile. The advantage is it's much more adaptable than the single wooden tiles I previously used. It looks a little busy close up but from further away it's actually quite subtle.
I will eventually post up a little description of how it's done. I found the existing information a little frustrating as it is all hands on: do this and this and this and you'll get this result, while I wanted to know how to calculate the shapes and angles from first principles. To that end I worked out the trigonometry that governs the technique so it's all good now.
After doing this bike I realised that I've been doing the joints backwards all along, I am going to try defining the joint area to have a constant width inlay band then adapting the tube laminae to fit that. I will also drop the carbon webs, they are too much of a PITA to do and I've never got them to work quite as well as I wanted.
Re: It's been a long time coming
Thanks Mark. The old yosegi zaiku.
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Mark Kelly
...snip... I will also drop the carbon webs, they are too much of a PITA to do and I've never got them to work quite as well as I wanted.
Just for kicks, let's pretend I'm not sure what you are talking about here....
On the reilience of Lyrebirds
Lovely article on the resilience of Lyrebirds in the face of the devastation wreaked by last summer's fires, published today.
Besides being an interesting piece in its own right, Lyrebirds surviving bushfires is a bit of a theme for me.
Re: On the reilience of Lyrebirds
Seems appropriate to share this here too:
https://youtu.be/Ps7DpymyE3s
Re: On the reilience of Lyrebirds
Re: On the reilience of Lyrebirds
That's the sort of thing you could be "blowing up" Matt's Instagram feed with....
Re: On the reilience of Lyrebirds
For those who want to know what I look like when I haven't had a decent night's sleep for a month:
https://youtu.be/cPVXfy022d0
"Meet the Maker" courtesy CyclingTips