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Thursday, April 22, 2010 6:28 PM

Really simple bending for a rack platform

I published a blog entry a long time ago with a "simple" way of bending tubing. It is far more complex than what I actually do today. I've been meaning to write a followup for over a year, but always forget to take photos when I'm bending...
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Monday, November 23, 2009 9:25 PM

Frame progress -- finished up the rear triangle

I had planned on doing this in 2 or 3 blog entries, but I'm running behind. That means you get one mega entry. The frame is pretty much done. It just needs cable routing brazeons and rear canti posts. This is what it looks like in profile: A set of...
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Monday, November 09, 2009 4:34 PM

Stainless Cycle Truck Rack

John Speare has my old Cycle Truck now (giving me room in the basement to make a new one). As part of the deal I wanted to make a new rack for that bike. The original rack is long and narrow (20" long, 16" wide) and after riding that bike a...
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009 2:06 AM

It's starting to look like a bicycle frame...

I brazed the front triangle of my first frame this weekend. Things went pretty well. I did have one mistake which has made a fairly minor change to the geometry. My brazing order around the downtube, seattube, bottom bracket area should have brazed the...
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Friday, April 17, 2009 6:21 PM

Seasons Speeding Tikit Porteur

I've finished my most recent round of hacking on my Bike Friday Tikit. I call it the Seasons Speeding Tikit Porteur. Seasons because that is what Bike Friday calls the Tikit with an internal hub. Speeding because that is what they call it when you...
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Monday, November 10, 2008 4:41 AM

Cycle Truck Finished

I did some finish work on the Cycle Truck and sent it off to be powder coated a couple of weeks ago. It was coated by Seattle Powder Coat in Ballard. They did a nice job at a reasonable price and with a very quick turnaround. The paint is red to pay homage...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008 9:45 PM

Made A Cycle Truck Rack

I had a little bonus free time on Friday so I built the rack for the Cycle Truck. It is 18 by 20 inches and made of 1/2 inch diameter cromoly tubing with a 0.035" wall thickness. The rack itself is very basic and didn't require much tricky work...
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Monday, July 07, 2008 3:51 AM

Realized

Imagined: Realized: Full photo set . Next steps -- Build it up (they knobby rear tire isn't staying) and ride it, then build a rack for it. Alistair helped me with alignment today and took a few photos too. The frame brazing is done except for a couple...
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 6:47 AM

Recent Projects in the Workshop

Racks Andre and Lee visited a few weeks ago to build a couple of porteur racks. They were finished a few weeks later. Andre's rack is for a 700C Kogswell P/R fork which he installed onto a Surly Long Haul Trucker. Lee built a rack for his Surly Pugsley...
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