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After the first bike, I had the bug, and I knew I could improve. I wanted to make the tubes thinner wall to save weight and I wanted to dive deeper into the wood selection process, especially in property comparison to, say, aluminum bike tubes. I also had a totally new construction method in mind,Continue reading

This post is about the first wood bike I made, and for that matter, the first bike I ever made. During my winter quarter at Cal Poly in 2018 I took a bicycle design class call Single Track Vehicle Design (henceforth referred to as ‘Single Track’). The main deliverable for the lab portion of thisContinue reading

This is a bit of an information dump of everything I’ve learned so far in the process of making wood tubes from veneer sheets for Cherry Bomb, the hardtail I’m working on. The process of making wood tubes is not terribly hard, but is a bit finicky and time consuming. I’m sure there are improvementsContinue reading

I broke my bike. Woody has, in fact, splintered. I decided to ride it like a mountain bike, and it was most decidedly not designed to be ridden like that and I snapped the head tube straight out of the frame. So what happened? Well part of the problem was design flaw, and part ofContinue reading

So every person who decides they want to make a bike from wood will inevitably be asked, at almost every turn, “Why wood?”, and to be fair, it’s not an obvious material choice for building a bike. However, the first airplanes were made of wood, and there are wooden structures standing today that were builtContinue reading