Homemade carbon frame!
12-15-08, 11:06 PM
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Homemade carbon frame!
I came across this website while searching... It's probably been posted before but this is pretty amazing stuff. Wish I had the skills and talent to layup my own carbon frame.
https://www.bmeres.com/index.htm
https://www.bmeres.com/index.htm
12-15-08, 11:53 PM
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Very very true, although it's been at least a year since I remember someone else mentioning this page. I've seen the page but never actually seen a product from them.
12-16-08, 12:33 AM
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they tried to keep me in engineering by promising the chance to make a senior project out of carbon fiber... some made hover crafts, others made surfboards, and some even made bicycles. i picked up one and it weighed about what my steel bike did... and it wasn't particularly stiff...
lets just say im no longer an engineering major.
lets just say im no longer an engineering major.
12-16-08, 01:14 AM
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I've been drooling over the idea of building my own carbon frame ever since I saw Damon Rinard's bike when he 1st built it. Brano's site is even more informative with step-by-step instructions. Only catch so far was he had to use an existing bike as a model to build the jig around. The one I want doesn't exist. 
12-16-08, 10:16 AM
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He says he thinks his C-Thru frame would have less aerodynamic drag than a normal frame.
When I look at that bike all I see is turbulent air.
It's cool, though.
When I look at that bike all I see is turbulent air.
It's cool, though.
12-16-08, 10:48 AM
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How much does it weigh?
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Building your own CF would be fun. That's about it. You would have no idea how to make the frame stiff and compliant in the right places or how to make it handle well. It would be just like the first CF bikes where teh builders had no experience.
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That's true. I'd make a few recumbants first, and sale them, before I'd make a road frame for myself.
12-16-08, 12:07 PM
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