Steve Hignett
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 posted on 22/6/11 at 09:56 PM |
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I think I've found myself a new project...
http://www.bmeres.com/bambooframe.htm
I like it...
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owelly
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| posted on 22/6/11 at 10:01 PM |
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Oh great. You come out of the pub, "where's my bike?"
"Sorry mate. My panda ate it".
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balidey
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| posted on 22/6/11 at 10:31 PM |
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great project.
I like the CF one too
Dutch bears have terrible skin due to their clogged paws
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RK
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| posted on 22/6/11 at 11:05 PM |
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Well, as I have fallen off more bikes than I can count, I am OUT.
I also lost my seat once, just before a 10 drop during a downhill race. That was quite scary if I say so myself. Needless to say, I didn't get a
good time...
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Mr G
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| posted on 23/6/11 at 12:00 AM |
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Problem is you'd put your 19" framed bike in the garage and when you come back next day it's a 21"
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a
car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes
and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
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Guinness
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| posted on 23/6/11 at 08:20 AM |
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I think they are great looking bikes and if I had the skill....
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nick205
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| posted on 23/6/11 at 08:31 AM |
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Liking that a lot, great mix of hi and low tech materials.
Having seen multistorey bamboo scaffolding in Asia I can wel believe bamboo could be used for quite a few applications.
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Peteff
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| posted on 23/6/11 at 08:37 AM |
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I've seen that on Instructables I think.
Bamboo bikes projects, lots of them.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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RichardK
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| posted on 23/6/11 at 10:45 AM |
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Steve, you thinking of making the joints?
Cheers
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nick205
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| posted on 23/6/11 at 12:18 PM |
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Looked through that site a bit more and there's some fascinating things on there.
Particularly like the rivetted latice Titanium frame - not because it's going to be an amazing bike frame, but just for the effort and skill
applied in producing it.
Also really like the bamboo fibre frame development too - it shows real ingenuity and a glimmer of what might be possible with natural materials and
some modern techniques 
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Steve Hignett
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| posted on 25/6/11 at 10:26 PM |
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Found a more detailed "instructable"...
http://www.instructables.com/id/Bamboo-Bike-2/
RichK - Yes, I would make everything.
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| posted on 26/6/11 at 10:21 PM |
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steve m
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| posted on 26/6/11 at 10:37 PM |
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I wooden make one
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Steve Hignett
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| posted on 4/7/11 at 08:16 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by steve m
I wooden make one
I've read and re-read this comment about a dozen times and feel so stupid cos I just don't get it!
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HowardB
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| posted on 4/7/11 at 08:23 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve Hignett
quote:
Originally posted by steve m
I wooden make one
I've read and re-read this comment about a dozen times and feel so stupid cos I just don't get it!
it's a play on words I woudn't make one = I wooden make one
Howard
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Steve Hignett
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| posted on 4/7/11 at 08:39 PM |
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But why the "Wood" word, that's what I don't get!
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Mr G
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| posted on 4/7/11 at 08:46 PM |
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Just cut to the chase and tell him bamboo is classed as a grass
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Steve Hignett
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| posted on 4/7/11 at 08:55 PM |
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But I thought that was one of those universally "known" things, like glass is a liquid etc...
I thought he might have been saying that he was ONLY going to make a wooden one, until other people went along with his comment!
I've thought about one with Ali tubes to join up the "joints", and carbon tube, but the bamboo just seems the best choice. The only
problem is that the instructables I've read pretty much state that choosing and treating the right bamboo is the hardest part!
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