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Making a Carbon Fiber Bike frame

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.

Make your own Carbon Fiber Bike - Link

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Making a Carbon Fiber/Epoxy Composite Bike - Link

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Posted by: Vrogy on February 1, 2008 at 2:45 AM

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

Posted by: Marc on February 1, 2008 at 6:16 AM

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.

Posted by: Cyclelicious on February 1, 2008 at 2:27 PM

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.

Posted by: James on February 1, 2008 at 7:39 PM

This is so cool! I'm inspired to maybe try it...

Note: might want to tag this with "bicycles" ...

Posted by: James on February 1, 2008 at 8:30 PM

Link above doesn't work-- its:
http://www.handmadebicycleshow.com/2008/

Posted by: Marc on February 1, 2008 at 9:25 PM

Thanks James, I made the edit.

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