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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. It is a 2 dimensional rectangle and doesn't...

Posted to Alex Wetmore is always busy with something... (Weblog) by AlexWetmore on 07-22-2008
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 of water bottle bosses and whatever other brazeons...

Posted to Alex Wetmore is always busy with something... (Weblog) by AlexWetmore on 07-06-2008
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 delivered. The new decking is Tigerwood (from Ecohaus...

Posted to Alex Wetmore is always busy with something... (Weblog) by AlexWetmore on 06-29-2008
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 wheel leaves more space for a big rack over the front...

Posted to Alex Wetmore is always busy with something... (Weblog) by AlexWetmore on 06-06-2008
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 the day and Alistair Spence, Dan Boxer, Joe Dube...

Posted to Alex Wetmore is always busy with something... (Weblog) by AlexWetmore on 05-25-2008
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 in rack building. Some folks have been asking me in...

Posted to Alex Wetmore is always busy with something... (Weblog) by AlexWetmore on 03-30-2008
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. Andre's rack on the Kogswell fork: Lee...

Posted to Alex Wetmore is always busy with something... (Weblog) by AlexWetmore on 03-10-2008
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 with Freight Bags to develop a bag for the rack...

Posted to Alex Wetmore is always busy with something... (Weblog) by AlexWetmore on 03-06-2008
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 bends and lowered front stay for making the bag...

Posted to Alex Wetmore is always busy with something... (Weblog) by AlexWetmore on 02-16-2008
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, but this series focuses on doing it with brazed...

Posted to Alex Wetmore is always busy with something... (Weblog) by AlexWetmore on 01-20-2008

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