Progress is slow but sure. I am back to normal after the two weeks off following my eye surgery. I can sand, grind, lift, etc now so things will progress faster. I am also off work this week so I have many hours to spend on the bike. All our house jobs are finished now and the house is ready to go on the market as soon as we have the official posting instruction. This is a bit of a new deadline for bike completion, as my "workshop" makes the basement look like a disaster. It is actually the workshop of a genius, but some prospective home buyers may not see this the same way as I do!!!
Last night I put the first layer of CF on the swing arms, this morning I added the second layer. These are 18" long made from pink styrofoam and will join the rear dropouts to the swing arm pivot under the seat. The shock will attach to these via a cross member that hasn't been built yet. I can't build the cross member until I have the bike in the shape of a.....bike as I can't engineer the dimensions exactly. The distance from the swing arm pivot to the rear axle is 20". Based on my 2D drawing of the rear tire pivot this will give me sufficient clearance for tire - seat clearance when I hit bumps and will allow the shock to bottom out before the seat hits the tire. The pic to the right is the swing arms in the vacuum bag with the second layer of CF applied. The second job of this morning was to put a second layer on the front end of the frame. I layed a 3" strip up one side, around the front where the headtube will go and then down the other side. I then clamped two pieces of laminate flooring to sandwich everything and applied a clamp to the front to hold in the actual headtube in order to give the front the necessary curve for the headtube to be bonded into after a couple more layers of CF are applied to the complete frame.
Last night I put the first layer of CF on the swing arms, this morning I added the second layer. These are 18" long made from pink styrofoam and will join the rear dropouts to the swing arm pivot under the seat. The shock will attach to these via a cross member that hasn't been built yet. I can't build the cross member until I have the bike in the shape of a.....bike as I can't engineer the dimensions exactly. The distance from the swing arm pivot to the rear axle is 20". Based on my 2D drawing of the rear tire pivot this will give me sufficient clearance for tire - seat clearance when I hit bumps and will allow the shock to bottom out before the seat hits the tire. The pic to the right is the swing arms in the vacuum bag with the second layer of CF applied. The second job of this morning was to put a second layer on the front end of the frame. I layed a 3" strip up one side, around the front where the headtube will go and then down the other side. I then clamped two pieces of laminate flooring to sandwich everything and applied a clamp to the front to hold in the actual headtube in order to give the front the necessary curve for the headtube to be bonded into after a couple more layers of CF are applied to the complete frame.
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