Re: custom frame ideas (exotic materials!)



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Lots of the best bikes are made from carbon fibre. I reckon it'd be the
best material because it's probably got the best weight to strength
ratio.


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Magnesium just sounds too risky to work with, Titanium is cool :cool:
how would carbon fibre stand strength wise when it comes to trials and
street?

yet more random ideas from vanpaun lol... inspired, truely inspired! :D


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A very durable plasma tube (for the forks)

EDIT: a generator using magnest could be built into the wheel:/edit
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bamboo
PVC pipe
lego's
regular ice (ice 9 is more durable)
This should help anyone http://tinyurl.com/3x8epb
And lastly, a frame made of quartz.


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actually, bamboo is doable, it's very strong and very light. I believe
you could ask 'Calfee Design' (http://www.calfeedesign.com/) about
making one (They did do a carbon fiber frame for Scot Cooper)


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why dont we just use wood? that'd be a story to tell the latter day
unicyclists of the future,

"when i was your age, i wittled all my frames! and Pluto was a planet!"

"punk kids with their plasma tube/carbon fiber bamboo frames!"

really, at the point, the difference between weight and strength is
good. but, like any person whos gone through a metal tech class, when
steel gets stronger, it will just end up snapping it. Like, if you heat
treat a peice of steel a lot, if you hit it on the ground, the edge isnt
gonna bend, its gonna just snap and chip.


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Did anyone who just posted read the second link? its a bamboo/cf
tutorial http://tinyurl.com/3x8epb


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SkierAlex wrote:
> Lots of the best bikes are made from carbon fibre. I reckon it'd be the
> best material because it's probably got the best weight to strength
> ratio.


those bike frames have bracing and stuff to make it stonger. a uni made
of carbon fiber wouldn't hold up very well. it would be dang strong and
dang light but it would crack.


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