{"id":2976,"date":"2011-09-12T21:33:10","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T03:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davintosh.com\/?p=2976"},"modified":"2011-09-12T21:33:10","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T03:33:10","slug":"the-splinterbike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/12\/the-splinterbike\/bikes\/","title":{"rendered":"The SplinterBike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a great wooden bike project; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.splinterbike.co.uk\/\">The SplinterBike!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/SplinterBike_05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/SplinterBike_05-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"SplinterBike_05\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2977\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>No bolts or screws, just wood and glues!<br \/>\n&#8230;a 100% Wooden Bicycle Land Speed Record&#8230; attempt!<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The bike is built completely from wood; no spokes, no chains, no metal anywhere (although it appears he did resort to using some nylon bushings when he discovered that no matter what species of wood is used, it doesn&#8217;t make a good bearing surface.) Even the drive system is made from wood; a wooden chain probably wouldn&#8217;t be strong enough so the builder went with a huge cog system instead.<\/p>\n<p>The bike was built intending to set a world speed record for an all wood bike, and they did it; 18.11kph (11.25mph)&#8230; Wait, what? <em>11.25mph?!?<\/em> Not exactly breathtaking, but I guess it&#8217;s something. I think I could do better. Time to hone my woodworking skills, then next stop; Guinness Book Of World Records!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a great wooden bike project; The SplinterBike! No bolts or screws, just wood and glues! &#8230;a 100% Wooden Bicycle Land Speed Record&#8230; attempt! The bike is built completely from wood; no spokes, no chains, no metal anywhere (although it appears he did resort to using some nylon bushings when he discovered that no matter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bikes"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}