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A little bit of progress on everything
I have nothing finished to show, but I have progress on the deck, cargo bike, and my bicycle jig. The deck is half done. We were hoping to finish it this weekend but the 90F weather kept us off of the roof. We're also waiting on 5 more boards to be...
Posted 30 June 2008 04:38 AM by AlexWetmore | 3 comment(s)
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My new bike project -- Cargo Bike
A year or two ago I drew up this design for a 20" front, 26" rear wheeled cargo bike and posted about it on this blog. This basic design is often called a cycletruck after the classic Schwinn sold around WW2. The idea is that a smaller front...
Posted 06 June 2008 04:34 PM by AlexWetmore | 11 comment(s)
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Seattle Framebuilding Chat
(photo by Alistair Spence, from his flickr site ) A couple of weeks ago I posted a message on the framebuilders list inviting amateur and hobbyist builders to come over to my house for some beers, chips, and to talk about building bikes. Yesterday was...
Posted 25 May 2008 04:53 PM by AlexWetmore | with no comments
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Great Rack Building Sequence from Alistair Spence
Alistair just finished up this large porteur rack for his tandem and posted an extensive series of photos documenting the process. He also annotated many of them, giving a lot of hints along the way. It's recommended viewing if you are interested...
Posted 30 March 2008 02:39 PM by AlexWetmore | 2 comment(s)
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Freight Pass and Stow bag and prototype rack
One of the coolest booths for me at NAHBS 2008 was from Pass and Stow . Matt Feeney has designed a nice porteur rack that can fit on almost any fork and which has a good size platform (not huge, not tiny) and which can hold panniers too. He also worked...
Posted 06 March 2008 04:27 PM by AlexWetmore | 4 comment(s)
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A couple of bike projects
Rory came over this morning and built the platform for a rack an upcoming bicycle. I used the lathe to make the piece of metal which the bag hooks onto. It centers the bag on the rack and is a slip fit over the 5/16" rack tubing. I like his compound...
Posted 17 February 2008 04:36 AM by AlexWetmore | with no comments
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Rack Building Basics -- Eyelets
It's been a long time since I've posted a Rack Building Basics entry, but I still have some in the queue. Today's photo series is about making the eyelets that connect the rack to the fork or frame. There are a couple of ways of doing this...
Posted 20 January 2008 03:07 PM by AlexWetmore | 7 comment(s)
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Rack Building Basics -- Tubing Selection
Basics Selecting tubing for a rack is an important first step in building a rack. The number of options is fairly limited based on weight and the accepted standards to work with things like pannier hooks. Selecting tubing sizes will also help you decide...
Posted 12 October 2007 02:25 AM by AlexWetmore | 5 comment(s)
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Rack Building Basics -- Vice grips and spokes
I find the combo of vice grips (or other clamps) and spokes to be really useful for holding small brazeons in place. Today I installed mid-fork eyelets onto a fork, small guides for headlight cable routing, and a headlight mount. Another favorite tool...
Posted 08 October 2007 12:28 AM by AlexWetmore | 4 comment(s)
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Rack Building Basics -- Making cross members
Most racks have some sort of cross member, straight tubing that goes across the rack platform. They are pretty easy to build. One of the tricks is getting the two miters to be parallel to each other. I find it simplest to put some scrap metal in the miters...
Posted 06 October 2007 01:46 AM by AlexWetmore | 1 comment(s)
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Rack Building Basics -- Fork Crown Mount
In this entry I'll show how I build the fork crown mount for a rack. This is the part that goes from the back of the rack through the fork crown. On a rack that is designed for very heavy loads I would recommend connecting the rack to the fork crown...
Posted 05 October 2007 11:43 PM by AlexWetmore | with no comments
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A Saturday morning folding bike breakfast
Kent, Mark and I met at the top of the I90 bridge this morning for some socializing and bike geeking. The toys of the day were my Bike Friday Tikit and Kent's Dahon Curve. Mark brought along Jan Heine's Alex Singer -- normally one of the most...
Posted 29 September 2007 11:39 PM by AlexWetmore | 17 comment(s)
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Four bike projects in one big blog post. Lots of photos!
I've been very busy and haven't updated the blog in a while. Click on photos for more, I'm limiting myself to one or two per project. My IvyCycles Rohloff Custom is on the road. I've put about 100 miles on this bike in the last week and...
Posted 25 June 2007 05:49 PM by AlexWetmore | 4 comment(s)
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Alistair's Rack Jig and the start of another rack
Alistair showed me photos of his rack jig a couple of months ago and I finally got around to building one myself. The core piece is some sort of holder that we got at "Science, Art and More", a fun science oriented store in Seattle. It consists...
Posted 14 May 2007 02:51 AM by AlexWetmore | with no comments
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A different way of measuring while bending tubing
Yesterday I made my second small front rack top and it was the second time that I had trouble with the measurements for bending tubing (using a lever-style bender). While sitting down with a piece of scrap and the bender I figured out an alternative way...
Posted 30 April 2007 02:37 AM by AlexWetmore | 5 comment(s)
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