Hand Made Bicycle Building

Time is truly a frustration of late, it just slips away. That's really a good problem, it means work is busy and the kids won't have...

It's been since Saturday that I last touched a tube and it feels like an itch I can't scratch. It's been a busy few days, betwee...

I've been mulling over my cut apart joints, also the pictures that Suzy Jackson has shared of her cut apart bottom bracket. Silver can ...

Here you can see the nice radius on right and left but in the center there's merely a transition from the diameter of the mitered tube t...

I had some time today, so I decided to try another fillet joint and then cut it up - pictures are below. Before going farther, lets descr...

Here you can see that the mitered tube (1.125") is bigger around than the main tube (1.0"). As always you can click the picture t...

The interior view of the joint. Fillet all the way around, but a bit heavy on the Bronze on the right side. Copyright R. Guggemos

Top layer showing a nice internal fillet and adequate encapsulation of the miter. Copyright R. Guggemos

2nd Layer showign the transition away from full encapsulation of the miter. Copyright R. Guggemos

Here's the bottom layer. Copyright R. Guggemos