Wooden Bike !

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Pinched from the mtbr site but I had to show it to you guys

made from solid wood :shock:

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Apart from being dead heavy, and my questionable knowledge of material sciences, I would imagine that to ride like a...er...

block of wood.

Still wood has some very usable characteristics in an engineering sense (was it Morgan cars use wood as subframes? May be wron on that)

...just cant see it working on bike frames...
 
jez-2-many-bikes":1yi4ql8o said:
my questionable knowledge of material sciences

...just cant see it working on bike frames...

And this from the man who rides on fibre glass boating technology ;)

Wood has great structural properties when used right - just look how long its ben used for buildings, boating etc. and don't forget many racing bikes in the late 20s early 30s had wooden rims too.
 
jez-2-many-bikes":1ir7ubzi said:
"And this from the man who rides on fibre glass boating technology "

Yeah but my canoe with wheels isnt SOLID :D

Solid wood does not always mean heavy though.

Resin covered Balsa works every well in lots of applications, and I was going to mention the bambo bike too.
 
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