carbon fiber vs wood bike frames?

[nicobie]

This company says that wood is just as strong as carbon fiber and better than aluminum or steel, lighter too.

I got a kick out of this as I am a wood butcher.

I bet dogman will be wanting one for the deadman's race.

http://www.renovobikes.com/

 

[beast775]

very nice,i live by a shipyard and see gigantic vessels always up on wood,must be something to it.

 

[Jeremy Harris]

Wood is nature's composite, very strong fibres (that are largely carbon) held together with a pretty strong adhesive. It's very under-rated in terms of its strength and stiffness relative to its weight. Used sensibly it can come pretty close to matching the best high tech composites around, but has some disadvantages, like being a bit inconsistent and only coming in relatively straight lengths.

Jeremy

 

[Drunkskunk]

Those things are truely works of art

 

[Zoot Katz]

Leaving price out of the equation, I'd choose wood over carbon fibre any day.
No wood rims? Plastic fenders! Bah!
Thanks for the link.

 

[NeilP]

Pah....call that a wooden bike...poncy piece of rubbish.


here is a proper wooden bike I saw when working in the DRC (Democratic Republic Of Congo)...where my avatar pic was taken

 

[Zoot Katz]

Pah....call that a wooden bike...poncy piece of rubbish.


here is a proper wooden bike I saw when working in the DRC (Democratic Republic Of Congo)...where my avatar pic was taken

They really operate more like kick scooters but carry phenomenal loads.
Tom Ritchey set up a "coffee bike" project in Rwanda. It's building sweet long tail cargo bikes to replace the traditional wooden ones.
http://woodenbikecoffee.com/wooden-bike

 

[NeilP]

I looked at the photo gallery on the site and it made me realise how much I miss my time out there, and would go back, but you do wonder, with projects like that how long the projects will survive if and when the whites that help set them up leave, and the locals sell off the equipment to make a quick buck and then go back to how they were before. Saw the results of that sort of thing in Uganda, projects that were abandoned and kit sold off soon as the westerners left the locals in charge

 

[AussieJester]

Was an email doing the rounds not long ago with some wooden bikes like

Neil posted, couldnt find the exact one but was similar to this

KiM

 

[wineboyrider]

Ahem. No comment.

 

[NeilP]

Nice

I've just had a thought,,,,tI reckon one of the rubber tyres fitted to those wooden wheels would fit straight on a Xlyte hub motor...no rim or spokes needed...