Making a Carbon Fiber Bike frame

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By Marc de Vinck
Posted 2008/02/01 @ 2:00 am
Category Fun & Games

Brano Meres created his own carbon fiber bike frame after being inspired by one made by Damon Rinard. He has some very interesting pictures of the whole process on his site. I particularly like the frame jig he created out of wood to hold the foam base material.

Everything began after I read the article “How I Made a Carbon Fiber Bike in My Garage” by Damon Rinard. Thanks to this excellent article, I decided to make a MTB frame, even though I’ve never dealt with carbon composites before (except carbon brakeboosters I made for my bike long ago). I always wanted to own this kind of frame.

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8 Responses to Making a Carbon Fiber Bike frame

Vrogy on February 1st, 2008 at 2:45 am said:

I rather like his bamboo + carbon fiber bike frame.
http://www.bmeres.com/bambooframe.htm

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Marc on February 1st, 2008 at 6:16 am said:

MAKE liked it too……http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2005/04/bamboo_bicycle.html

I wish I had the time to make something like this.

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Cyclelicious on February 1st, 2008 at 2:27 pm said:

Brano is currently working on a road bike version of this. He’ll be at the North American Handmade Bicycle Show in Portland next week.

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James on February 1st, 2008 at 7:39 pm said:

This is so cool! I’m inspired to maybe try it…

Note: might want to tag this with “bicycles” …

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James on February 1st, 2008 at 8:30 pm said:

Link above doesn’t work– its:
http://www.handmadebicycleshow.com/2008/

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Marc on February 1st, 2008 at 9:25 pm said:

Thanks James, I made the edit.

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Tao Schencks on March 6th, 2009 at 11:26 pm said:

The links to the articles are very inspiring, but this is not for the feint hearted!

Working with these products takes time, care and a lot of knowledge.

If you are in any doubt, so make yourself a Bamboo bike, like Vrogy said!

http://www.carbon-fiber-bike.com

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George Hincapie on July 9th, 2012 at 11:44 am said:

I had carbon fiber for lunch

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