Dear all,
I write to ask for your help. What would be the best way to test a new frame type please?
My aim is to improve the steering. However, there seem all too few bicycle manufacturers left in this country to take an interest.
All responses gratefully acknowledged. Thank you.
Punk_shore
frame design & development
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Punk_shore
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What is the colour(s) of your cycle?
Which of its benefits would you recommend?
Please lookup the Bicycle Renewal Programme, linked to the website button beneath "Santa's Little Helper" cartoon.
Which of its benefits would you recommend?
Please lookup the Bicycle Renewal Programme, linked to the website button beneath "Santa's Little Helper" cartoon.
Re: frame design & development
Sorry. PS, but I can't help except perhaps someone with computer skills could find a program that your design could be put into, and let the computer test the design for you.
Have you already built this design? If you have, lend it to people (lots of them) and get them to comment.
What way are you improving the steering?
I've always felt that bearings are the wrong solution to a steering column system. Ball/roller bearings are, after all, for continuously rotating shafts, not for load-bearing with hardly any radial movement.
Motor vehicles use knuckles and/or bushes for steering.
HTH.
Have you already built this design? If you have, lend it to people (lots of them) and get them to comment.
Punk_shore wrote:My aim is to improve the steering.
What way are you improving the steering?
I've always felt that bearings are the wrong solution to a steering column system. Ball/roller bearings are, after all, for continuously rotating shafts, not for load-bearing with hardly any radial movement.
Motor vehicles use knuckles and/or bushes for steering.
HTH.
Mick F. Cornwall