Bamboo bicycle!

Marc Brett said:

Bamboo/duralum frame MTB, complete with instructions on how to build your own.

http://www.bme.szm.sk/bambooframe.htm

Dunno about about the technology, but don't it look lovely. Bit of an
eye catcher.

in message <[email hidden]>, Tosspot

(') said:

Marc Brett said:

Bamboo/duralum frame MTB, complete with instructions on how to build
your own.

http://www.bme.szm.sk/bambooframe.htm

Dunno about about the technology, but don't it look lovely. Bit of an
eye catcher.

Bamboo has phenomenal strength in compression, as good as the best
composites. It's probably an ideal bike frame material, if you can
solve the jointing problem (it doesn't weld or braze particularly
well). Epoxy bonding into carbon composite lugs is probably a good
solution.

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On 29/4/05 12:15 pm, in article [email hidden], "Peter

Clinch said:

And it shares the same problem as other woods, which is batch
consistency ruling out mass production to a uniformly high standard.
Similarly, wooden boats are usually as good as just about anything else
out there (aside from really cutting edge stuff), but they cost a
fortune in comparison because they have to be hand made.

And they take a lot more maintenance. My next boat will NOT be wood...

Though I'd love an old pilot cutter and the time to spend maintaining it..

...d

In article <[email hidden]>, David Martin

Quoted message said:

And they take a lot more maintenance. My next boat will NOT be
wood...

Quoted message said:

Though I'd love an old pilot cutter and the time to spend
maintaining it..

The Lottery might come up:-)

--
A T (Sandy) Morton
on the Bicycle Island
In the Global Village
http://www.millport.net

On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 13:04:30 +0100, David Martin
<[email hidden]> wrote in message
<[email hidden]>:

Quoted message said:

I'd love an old pilot cutter and the time to spend maintaining it..

A friend of mine sold up, bought a 46ft ketch and is sailing round the
world. Unfortunately the website is down at present
(http://www.leobhan.info when it's working)

Guy
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"To every complex problem there is a solution which is
simple, neat and wrong" - HL Mencken

Just zis Guy said:

On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 13:04:30 +0100, David Martin
<[email hidden]> wrote in message
<[email hidden]>:

Quoted message said:

I'd love an old pilot cutter and the time to spend maintaining it..

A friend of mine sold up, bought a 46ft ketch and is sailing round the
world. Unfortunately the website is down at present
(http://www.leobhan.info when it's working)

Ditto. Friend bought 60ft yacht, spent 2 years sailing round the
Pacific, got bored, decided to run yacht charter business, got fed up
trying to sort people out at a distance, moved yacht to Caribbean, tried
for another year with chartering, sold yacht. Now back helping people
starting their own businesses and thoroughly enjoying himself.

A lot of these things that we think are special are only special because
we don't/can't do them all the time.

--
Tony

"A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought" Lord
Peter Wimsey (Dorothy L. Sayers)

Just zis Guy said:

On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 13:04:30 +0100, David Martin
<[email hidden]> wrote in message
<[email hidden]>:

Quoted message said:

I'd love an old pilot cutter and the time to spend maintaining it..

A friend of mine sold up, bought a 46ft ketch and is sailing round the
world. Unfortunately the website is down at present
(http://www.leobhan.info when it's working)

I knew someone in LA who was doing up an old Norwegian pilot boat with
the aim of sailing round the world, but he got married (and acquired
a stepchild) instead, which he thought was a bigger adventure.

On 30/4/05 1:17 pm, in article [email hidden],

Alan Braggins said:

Just zis Guy said:

On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 13:04:30 +0100, David Martin
<[email hidden]> wrote in message
<[email hidden]>:

Quoted message said:

I'd love an old pilot cutter and the time to spend maintaining it..

A friend of mine sold up, bought a 46ft ketch and is sailing round the
world. Unfortunately the website is down at present
(http://www.leobhan.info when it's working)

I knew someone in LA who was doing up an old Norwegian pilot boat with
the aim of sailing round the world, but he got married (and acquired
a stepchild) instead, which he thought was a bigger adventure.

A friend bought an old Norwegian fishing boat. I rebuilt the engine for him
twice after the boat sank (twice). Interesting things old wooden boats.

...d