Originally Posted by
coupster
Looking great, I'm eagerly following your posts and progress. I'm finalizing the geometry for my first bamboo build this summer. I'm planning on using carbon tow and balsa lugs with a 1x9 drivetrain. What are you using for drink bottle mounts and cable stops/guides? Everything that I've read in my research says not to drill bamboo - something required by all commercially available parts that I've found. So I've been trying somewhat unsuccessfully to fabricate surface mounted ones out of hardwood. Any advice/suppliers would be much appreciated.
I use commercially available aluminium cable stops like these from Nova:
NOVA CABLE STOP SINGLE - RIVET ON BLACK :: CABLE STOPS :: ALUMINUM SMALL PARTS :: BRAZON/SMALL PARTS :: Nova Cycles Supply Inc.
They are designed to be riveted, but I just screw them in.
I pre-drill the holes, then fit them with some epoxy (partly to go in the hole and partly to provide a 'bed'.
On an earlier frame I did drill on the bamboo:
But on the most recent ones I've drilled through the lug material:
Getting the front derailleur location correct is not easy, so the 1x9 drivetrain is a good idea. I'd seriously consider one of the new SRAM 1x11 drivetrains on a future build, but I had a cheap deal on a secondhand 2x10 Ultegra group for this one.
Drink bottles bosses use the standard cycling rivet in bosses inserted in disks of carbon fibre (cut from the shaft of a broken crew rowing oar - sculling, not sweep) and then bonded on. I went to my local bike shop and did this at the counter using their tool.
