{"id":477,"date":"2008-05-23T16:50:32","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T22:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davintosh.com\/2008\/05\/23\/the-plywood-bike\/"},"modified":"2008-05-23T16:50:32","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T22:50:32","slug":"the-plywood-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/2008\/05\/23\/the-plywood-bike\/family\/","title":{"rendered":"The Plywood Bike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The boys and I are still planning on building a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davintosh.com\/2007\/07\/31\/the-vogabike\/\">rowbike<\/a> of some kind &mdash; at least I am, but they&#8217;re getting a little impatient wondering when we&#8217;re going to get started. I&#8217;ve been trying to source cheap\/free frame materials and trying to figure out in my head how to construct the thing, and think I&#8217;ve come upon an idea that will finally get this project rolling&#8230; build the frame out of plywood.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.blids.nl\/recumbent\/Workshop2003\/DSCN2143.jpg'><img src='\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/plywood_bike.jpg' alt='plywood_bike.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Plywood construction in bikes isn&#8217;t a new idea at all; I found plenty of links online from people who have gone through similar projects, apparently with a decent level of success. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blids.nl\/gallery\/Plywood-Recumbent-Building-workshop-2003\">This site<\/a> is a build diary of sorts where a number of students built recumbents using a laminated plywood &amp; foam sandwich construction&#8230; Very cool. <\/p>\n<p>One other site I found that&#8217;s worth mentioning is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manytracks.com\/Recumbent\/woody.htm\">manytracks.com Woody Project<\/a>. There he took stock bike parts, made some modifications to them, built a frame from lumber &amp; plywood, and it looks like it&#8217;d work.<\/p>\n<p>I really like the plywood\/foam sandwich construction for the rowbike concept because you don&#8217;t have the twisting that happens on a pedal bike in the area of the bottom bracket; all the torque in a rowbike is linear. Sounds like a match made in heaven for a guy with few welding skills and less welding equipment, but wields a pretty mean scroll saw.<\/p>\n<p>That same group also built recumbent bikes using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blids.nl\/gallery\/Carbon-Recumbent-Workshop-2004\">carbon fiber<\/a> a couple of years later; perhaps that&#8217;ll be our next garage project&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The boys and I are still planning on building a rowbike of some kind &mdash; at least I am, but they&#8217;re getting a little impatient wondering when we&#8217;re going to get started. I&#8217;ve been trying to source cheap\/free frame materials and trying to figure out in my head how to construct the thing, and think [&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":[34,11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bikes","category-family","category-fun"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","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=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}