Bike engineering book or website

jaworski86

Hi! I would like to study bike engineering (hobby wise) - design, geometry, frame compounds, gearing etc. I am looking for a book or a website that would help me to start it. Anybody ever seen anything like it? Thanks for any tips!

cooldad

I would say the internet. No website has it all, but Sheldon Brown is a good start.

rockmonkeysc

There are a few frame building courses.
Curtis bikes were doing a course where they help you build a custom frame to your own specs and they braze it for you.

nicktheluddite

+1 for Sheldon Brown.

Bicycling Science by David Gordon Wilson is a good technical read - I think that's the book you want. http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/id/ ... 0262731546

nicklouse

http://www.bikecad.ca

mmacavity

http://www.bikeradar.com/gear/category/ ... ign-33925/

mmacavity

Touring Bikes: A Practical Guide by Tony Oliver

Introduction to Engineering Materials: The Bicycle & the Walkman by McMahon and Graham

mmacavity

RockmonkeySC were you thinking of this?

http://www.thebicycleacademy.org/2014/0 ... omplished/

rockmonkeysc

nicklouse wrote:

http://www.bikecad.ca

Fairly useless software but still better than Pro Engineer (an etch-a-sketch is better than Pro-E) and £6500 cheaper.

nicklouse

Hate Pro E with a vengeance. But that comes from years of UG. work. (Pops called NX now).

But it really depends on what the OP is actually wanting to do. Most can be done with pencil and paper. Considering what would be used to make anything.

rockmonkeysc

nicklouse wrote:

Hate Pro E with a vengeance. But that comes from years of UG. work. (Pops called NX now).

I quit my last job because I got so p1ssed off with Pro E. I can't believe they sell it for more than the cost of Solidworks or Inventor. It's terrible. Americans love it for some reason.

kirby700

RockmonkeySC wrote:

nicklouse wrote:

http://www.bikecad.ca

Fairly useless software but still better than Pro Engineer (an etch-a-sketch is better than Pro-E) and £6500 cheaper.

Jesus tell me about it. Using it for the last 8 years and its slowly driving me insane!

I used solidworks for 2 and half years in the middle of this 8 years and loved it and still get the updates but can only play on it.

Problem is our company is too far in to change now.