Building a Frame
carl2990
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I am thinking of building a bike frame in college. I wont acctually be building the bike, just designing, i will give the design to a welder to acctually build it. It is going to be a DH/FR Hardtail. It will either be built out of aluminium or steel depending on what my college says.
What type of features do you look for when buying a frame? and what things would you like to see on one e.g. 150mm or 135mm rear? thru-axle rear? these are both things i was thinking of as i dont see them on many hardtails.
What type of features do you look for when buying a frame? and what things would you like to see on one e.g. 150mm or 135mm rear? thru-axle rear? these are both things i was thinking of as i dont see them on many hardtails.
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Dave Yates runs a frame building course and wrote this article which might interest you, though it's about road frames: http://www.daveyatescycles.co.uk/index.html
He builds MTB frames too - you could always ring him for a chat?<hr>
<h6>What\'s the point of going out? We\'re just going to end up back here anyway</h6>0 -
You realise there's very, very small scope for originality here?
Most courseworks demand something that both works and doesn't already exist...0 -
i know, but theres also lots of features you could look into and explain in the coursework such as butted tubing, geometry (which would link into ergonomics and things like that), strengths and weaknesses of materials, and small features such as trying to decrease the chances of bending dropouts by the position of it. I know there is very little that hasnt alerady been done, but because theres lots of things that you can change there will be lots of things to explain in the coursework, even if i dont get lots of marks for originality, i will get the marks for detailed explaination as to why ive designed it the way i have.0
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Have a look in Nicks tech links section for 'linkage' - a very good utility for suspesion designs.
Actually fabricating your own frame, for a neophyte at least, is going to be extrememly difficult, not to mention expensive.0 -
[Jaded hack mode ON]
The way you arrive at a pivot point is to randomly put a pin in a diagram of a bike frame, then hand it over to the marketing department to invent some justifications for it.John Stevenson0 -
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You forgot to turn jaded hack mode off
*sound of a penny dropping into -very- think treackle*
ooooh...
They use the same technique for XC hardtails, but they don't -actually- stick the pin in (to save on weight you know)"I AM DEATH, NOT TAXES. I ONLY COME ONCE."0
