Mcooley - Where are your workshops?

I'm in the final stages of preparation for a customized HeroBike kit build. Their process involves hand shaped balsa wood lugs - the end result appears very similar to your basswood gussets. I don't know what the shear strength of orthotape is - and I have yet to build this kit, so I don't know lots - so don't know if it would be compatible with the balsa lug method but it looks much easier, cleaner, more environmentally safer than their epoxy and carbon tow. I'm using dropout from Paragon too. Tou're right the tabs are too small for bamboo so I had steel extensions welded on to the tabs. It looks like it will work fine. TMT

I'll post more with pics when production actually starts.