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Bickering about bicycles, now with occasional tips about motorised vehicles
bhtooefr:
There are DIY plans for building a bamboo bike, but basically it consists of making carbon fiber lugs around bamboo tubes, typically.
It's a labor-intensive way of building a frame, that requires expensive materials for bonding the tubes together, and is very picky about the quality of the bamboo (meaning a lot gets rejected, increasing the cost significantly). And, I wouldn't be surprised if the resource usage for a bamboo frame is actually higher than a good 4130 frame, which will last quite a bit longer, and have far more consistent quality and lower assembly cost.
pwhodges:
No carbon fibre on the ones I've seen. The joints seem to be made with lots of fibrous binding and loads of what looks suspiciously like epoxy resin.
ev4n:
--- Quote from: The Seldom Killer on 30 Jul 2014, 13:50 ---Indeed it is the PBP. Went out in the 90 group last time (2011) bit I'm going to have a punt at the 84 hour group. Did Super Brevet Scandinavia last year which was pretty impressive and there's a couple of others on the list;
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Nice. I'm not sure that PBP is right for me, at leas for now. I'm more of a casual cyclist, I've only once done over 100km, and I'm not much of a camper, but it's an intriguing challenge nonetheless. GLHF for sure.
--- Quote from: The Seldom Killer on 30 Jul 2014, 13:50 ---I cycled across Canada in 2006 and Cape Breton was pretty awesome. Even better was the Petit Train du Nord in Quebec which I think is local to you.
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I wonder if I should take this offline, but I'd love to hear about it. I'm guessing if you did Petit Train du Nord then you took the northern route across Ontario? That would have been....remote.... (I lived up there for 3 years when I was a child, and then lived on the southern route for 14 years.)
And yeah, Petit Train du Nord is somewhat close. It's one side of the triangle between Ottawa, Montreal, and Mont Tremblant. The far side. I've thought about going once or twice. Someday.
--- Quote from: The Seldom Killer on 30 Jul 2014, 13:50 ---I may never actually do Lands End to John O'Groats although I've done a lot of the roads that make it up. Give us a shout if you come over though, I'd be happy to give you come company on the Welsh Marches.
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Hah you bet. I have a few friends in the US who have interest in that and PCH as well. I also have a ton of family, 99% of whom I've never met, in England, so that ride might be an interesting opportunity to meet some relatives (assuming I can figure out where they are and string them together).
Grognard:
going to take the Son&Heir's birthday gift to the garage tomorrow.
I think it will pass inspection, so I can get used to driving a stick again.
the gift is a beat to hell, worn to the nub, faded to a lovely pink, 2000 Ford Ranger pickup.
it's got more dents than my last 5 vehicles combined. :D
total cost to resurrect it from the junk pile and make it legal (so far): $650
hedgie:
--- Quote from: The Seldom Killer on 30 Jul 2014, 12:46 --- It's going to come in at around £1200 (£1k on the bike to work scheme) fully built but it could easily be sold for quite a bit more.
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Fuck, there's no way I'd ever pay that much for a bike if it didn't have a motor and at least 750cc.
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