the coolest DIY project of all time
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the coolest DIY project of all time
what is the coolest diy project ever? this is not a custom messenger bag thread- i want to see something like combat boots with spd cleats, or something of that magnitude. pics prefered. shoot
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I wanted to see how hard it was to build my own bike out of bamboo. I read about them doing it in 3rd world countries and theres some company in Santa Cruz I think who makes them professionally. It aint all that pretty but it's cool as hell. Yes, all the tubes were replaced with bamboo.
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how'd you do the head tube, seat tube and bottom bracket?
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that is really sick man. dope cruiser bike. id love to bar hop with a bike like that!
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um. that just looks like a bike wrapped in bamboo. look at those rear dropouts.
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They clearly cuts pieces from a regular bike, and used it on. They never claimed that it is 100% bamboo.
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its a great idea if you need to recycle a mangled frame. if the frame is bent you could just chop the dropouts, bb, headtube, seat tube and make a bike from that with straight bamboo pieces.
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For the rest who were interested I did cut up an old bike and used about 2" of each pipe as an inner lug to mount the bamboo tubes to. I used expoxy thickened with micro-balloons to do the basic joints and taped, zip tied or whatever else to get them lined up. I used the TLAR method so it's not perfectly aligned but who really cares on a project like this. Then the joints are wrapped with 170lb test hemp and saturated with epoxy to secure them. I've worked with carbon and kevlar for a while so I'm pretty sold on the idea that the bike will hold. Here's a few pics of the work in progress.
This is what I started with.
ended up with the pile you see in the corner
My tubing
After torching to remove as much H2O as possible. Really stiffens the tubing
All the joints drying.
The forks are just extended and wrapped with hemp. I didn't have the balls to run bamboo tubes there. I'm very seriously considering swapping over to a springer front end.
Sorry for the thread hijack, NAES