My homemade front disc wheel
04-26-07 | 08:11 PM
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J Disc. Still have a 7 speed tubualr one around if anyone's interested.
04-26-07 | 08:53 PM
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Lowracer1's right, 'bent riders have been doing it for years.
Front and rear Coroplast spoke covers. The yellow wheels just right of center are 4mm Coroplast.
Styrene/ABS spoke cover, only one side installed and showing flap for inflation. This plastic is the same stuff that 'For Sale' signs at the hardware store are made of.
If you want to go lighter, you can make 'W' shaped brackets out of carbon fiber, get fiberglass kite spar material to make a hoop, and make spoke covers out of ripstop nylon.
Cool? yeah! Patentable? Probably not...
Front and rear Coroplast spoke covers. The yellow wheels just right of center are 4mm Coroplast.
Styrene/ABS spoke cover, only one side installed and showing flap for inflation. This plastic is the same stuff that 'For Sale' signs at the hardware store are made of.
If you want to go lighter, you can make 'W' shaped brackets out of carbon fiber, get fiberglass kite spar material to make a hoop, and make spoke covers out of ripstop nylon.
Cool? yeah! Patentable? Probably not...
04-26-07 | 09:52 PM
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People have been covering their wheels in mylar for 20 years now, which is lighter and more effective than that. At least I saved you a trip to the patent office.
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04-26-07 | 11:56 PM
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yeah, i used to run a mylar disc at the track long befor the j-disc that i built myself. it weighs almost nothing and would be alot easier to build these days for a road bike with the deeper section rims that are available whereas for the track you can glue the mylar right up to the edge of the tire as you don't need to worry about the braking surface. why someone would build them out of coroplast i don't know
06-10-11 | 04:50 PM
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I wonder why pros stopped using front discs. Not sure if it was common back then, but laurent figion used it (Why did lemond choose a regular front wheel?).
Is it because they didn't have deep rim wheels back then? Not sure how it is possible to build a disc but not a deep-section, but I have yet to see an ultra-deep rim wheel out of something other than carbon.
Is it because they didn't have deep rim wheels back then? Not sure how it is possible to build a disc but not a deep-section, but I have yet to see an ultra-deep rim wheel out of something other than carbon.
06-10-11 | 06:35 PM
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You start reading them, and figure out if you want to say something, then run across your own 4 year old post.
Interesting to see if you'd still post the same response.
Then there's revisiting all the blasts from the past of posters gone but not forgotten.
You start reading them, and figure out if you want to say something, then run across your own 4 year old post.
Interesting to see if you'd still post the same response.
Then there's revisiting all the blasts from the past of posters gone but not forgotten.
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