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markz said:^I like that kickstand!
Could also function as a slingshot. 8)
markz said:^I like that kickstand!
It's my buddies. Cross country only for sure. Sure is perdy though.i watched sam pilgrim bust one of those bamboo frames in half doing gnarly air!
Bamboo vs different wood grain frames and handlebars etc? Different manufacturers?hell yes! it's basically fibreglass techniques but with different materials. Calfee Design uses carbon fibre tubes. i did some test pipes with kevlar (aramid) cloth and they're astonishingly light and strong. at 200 mm long with only 3 wraps round a 21.5mm PVC pipe i can barely get any bend.
i'm designing a 200kg Category L7e Hybrid EV using the same "nodes-plus-pipes-plus-cloth-plus-resin", except using FR4 (fire resistant resin), kevlar cloth (also fire-resistant) and hemp hessian. 21.5mm PVC pipes for heavy-duty connections and 12mm bamboo where it doesn't matter so much. nodes are 3D printed to "hold" the pipes in place whilst the kevlar/hessian is wrapped and the resin hardens.
this is basically a really good proven technique, it's just not commonly known.