don't tell me you never tried to make a
>FULLY FUNCTIONING BICYCLE
>FULLY MADE OUT OF WOOD
don't tell me you never tried to make a. >FULLY FUNCTIONING BICYCLE. >FULLY MADE OUT OF WOOD
don't tell me you never tried to make a
>FULLY FUNCTIONING BICYCLE
>FULLY MADE OUT OF WOOD
>metal chain
>metal handlebars
wood or gtfo
yo you posted just before me post
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dont forget the metal bike seat post and the bike seat support bracket and the partial spokes made out of metal oh and also the fender supports made of metal
pretty sure it's just a wooden skin over a metal frame
so is it possible to make a bicycle all out of wood even including the chains, or not
just for the aesthetics
>so is it possible to make a bicycle all out of wood even including the chains
Well, yeah I'm sure it's possible, but you'd probably be better off not using wooden chains and instead using a different approach, even if it was some sort of direct drive approach like on a penny farthing or big wheels trike
you could use rubber, that comes from trees
A fully functional wooden bike can be easily made and is still lighter weight than what you originally posted.
nvm chains are steel i'm moronic
>Not using a drive shaft for your wooden bicycle instead of a chain
NGMI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eimLIkJaNFM
Now that's a great idea, having a flat disc only fixated in the hub with the higher torque of the lower gears radially pushing onto that disc at the very brim.
This is gonna hold up 200 miles on a sunny day before the gears start slipping.
For a bike made entirely of wood, that was all I could think of aside from a 4-bar linkage system: https://youtu.be/bzr9tup_J5g
The idea of a driveshaft on bicycles isn't new, it was quite widespread up until ~30 years ago.
Even motorcycles use them, especially BMW.
My argument was not that the idea was bad, but rather the mechanical design in this specific case.
In this specific case, what exactly would you recommend for a bicycle made entirely of wood, besides "don't do it"?
Depends on your definition of entirely.
Power transmission is hard to do with wood,the best option would probably be big gears like
Wood gets its rigidity from its mass of aligned fibres, meaning the thinner it is, the less rigid it becomes.
Also, wear and tear will kill it very quickly. So if you won't even allow metal bearings, it'll break even quicker than the driveshaft system.
tl;dr there's a reason why bicycles aren't made of wood
Big gears like
, but with a different gear ratio, maybe.
imagine how structurally unsafe that would be and one of those pieces of wood breaks and goes up your butthole while riding it.
carbon fiber already does that
Let me tell you about the wonder material known as carbon fiber...
>buy $200, 5 oz. seatpost
>overtighten the clamp bolt by 1nm
>splinters and shreds your colon
many such cases
The dude holding it looks like 240lbs at 5'7
No wonder it broke
i plan on building a wooden spinbike soon
No way those wheels are balanced.
what a horrible idea
Ya looks cool but really this is kind of useless other than decoration and bragging
I loved watching his video, but since buying the Battlebots robot he went full moron and annoying
It kinda worked tho
that dude has never heard of lignum vitae before
>Large gear on the wheel instead of the pedals
Top moronic
you have sissy legs?
great, a bike you literally cannot ride outside or it'll warp and seize
>he doesnt know about treated wood and marine grade woods that are designed to be wet and not get ruined
imagine being this dumb on PrepHole
The treated and marine grade woods that I'm experienced with are treated in order to prevent rotting-- NOT dimensional changes brought about by moisture absorption.
so by that logic all those wooden boats in the water are all warped and coming apart and sinking everywhere?
They're in a constant state of high moisture content.
You're making a moronic argument; if you had a bike made out of wood like OP's pic and you left it outside to get wet and dry, it would wind up getting ruined before long. Treated and marine grade woods are typically intended to be rot resistant and more moisture resistant than untreated wood, but they're still not 100% dimensionally stable, and if you made something like that wooden bike or some finish cabinetry with it and then put it in and out of water, you'd find that it didn't fare well.
>boats are exposed to water and dried and they arent warped or falling apart
gonna need some more logic on your part.
Anon you are a moron. Boats are constantly in water.
>Boats are constantly in water.
so they are always underwater? boats dont sink under normal circumstances and the upper half is above water. but it gets wet from splashing water, rain, etc and then it dries. so why arent all the boats made of wood warped and falling apart? you have not given any answer that supports this because you cant understand that wood can be sealed and marine grade woods exist for this very reason and that boke can me made of that same wood and still be functional
why dont you just give up, you are losing the argument because you dont understand.
bike*
Age of sail ships had a lifespan of maybe 50 years if very well built and constantly maintained. Drydocked, sanded and tarred every few years
>You
Btw I am not the guy you were talking to. But I am Dutch and if there is a thing we know it is ships and bikes. And there is a clear reason we never made bikes out of wood.
You don't seem to understand that the wood is not maintaining a state of water-tightedness--- the tar/pitch/coatings are doing that. The wood is not dimensionally stable 100% when you have absorb moisture and then dry out, it changes shape. This won't probably matter much for a wooden spoon, but it's a terrible choice for a bicycle.
Wood is a bad choice for a bicycle because of its poor weathering qualities and its expense due to labor for this application. It's an inferior choice compared to conventional materials for bicycles.
>marine grade wood
Look up what that term means, fricktard. Its dense grained hardwoods with treatments to prevent rot and increase its water resistance, but ultimately its still a shit choice for a bicycle.
im sorry, when I looked at your post, all I read was blah blah blah im an idiot.
>makes stupid, baseless, inane assertion
>can't back it up
You're a fricking moron and you know it
Planked wooden boats that don't get sailed enough will absolutely open up at the seams above the waterline and will leak when heeled until those planks soak up moisture and swell enough to seal the caulked seams.
The parts that stay submerged rely on this same dimensional growth of the planks to keep water out; when you re-caulk a wooden boat it will leak a bit until the wood achieves that swollen state. It's also possible to over-caulk a planked boat so that there's not enough room for plank expansion, which can cause the planks to distort and even pop fasteners.
On the flip side, leaving a planked wooden boat out of the water for too long can cause shrinkage that can do the same kind of damage and render it useless without major restoration work like re-planking and re- fastening.
"Marine grades woods" move all over the place and are selected for a balance of strength and flexibility and the rot resistant qualities that are prized in marine grade planking is prized *specifically* because it will be saturated with water.
The only "marine grade" wooden building process that might apply in this context is something like cold molded plywood like the WEST system, but that is a wood/epoxy composite system that relies on using veneers to achieve the kind of saturation that prevents any moisture from ever getting in the wood again.
Because of that need for complete penetration/ saturation it actually works best with more porous open grain wood species than the ones favored for traditional wooden boat construction.
So even where you might be partially correct, you're still wrong.
i just have to chime in here to add my two cents in and let you know that you are a grade A moron.
Actually, taking a wooden boat out of the water for an extended period of time usually DOES make it a leaky piece of shit. The traditional fix is hammering tar-soaked rope into the gaps.
Not exactly "rooe" but rope adjacent-
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakum
there's no way those wheels are balanced
>he doesnt see the 20 metal spokes on the opposite side of the wood spoke
pretty sure the weight of the metal spokes balances out that skinny ass wood spoke.
>radially laced drive wheel
That wheel would disintegrate even if the rim was metal.
Looks symmetric across the line through the wood spoke, symmetry on the perpendicular axis would depend on the weight of the wood spoke. The normal spokes would weigh 120g-ish combined.
Bike chains are rated to be able to carry roughly a ton before they snap, and even a weak rider can put in the equivalent of at least a tenth that if they try.
>go on /vg/
>people falling for moronic blah blah blah b8
>go on /tg/
>people falling for blah blah blah b8
>go on PrepHole
>people falling for moronic blah blah blah b8
When will you learn that someone being beyond moronic tends to be b8?
I'm not baiting, I just thought it'd be fun to look for creative ways to make something all out of wood like this reply
also feeling kinda dumb for changing the thread pic at the last second instead of using the bottom picture because the thread pic looked more functional, but it's not all wood
people figured out centuries ago how to make moisture exposed wood dimensional stable.
Just wait for your favorite youtuber to spoonfeed you video someday, or read a book for once you nibbers
If you made a wooden bike frame and it didn't break on the first ride...you're a pussy and dont shred hard enough. Stick to scooters.
tis time for some a hobby horsin'!!!
>FULLY MADE OUT OF WOOD
I see plenty of metal on that bike.
That seat angle is going to make your penis stop working, rookie. You need to at least level it out, ideally pointed up slightly so you aren't rolling your weight forward onto the base of your shaft.
Pointing it up causes the exact thing you're trying to avoid: jamming the nose into your crotch. Correct position is flat to very slightly nose-down, but not tilted enough that you slide forward - 1 or 2 degrees max (OP is definitely tilted way too much). If you still tend to slide forward with a flat saddle it's probably because your handlebars are too far away.
I used to have a bike frame made from bamboo. some Black person stole it, it was very soft riding and comparable to a mid 90s carbon frame
Where's the wooden dildo?
I wanna try
Noice