video - how bicycles are built

Quoted message said:

A cool 10 minute video clip showing how your basic errand bike is put
together, including seeing a wheel-building machine in action:

Disheartening.

Sergio
Pisa

sergio said:

Quoted message said:

A cool 10 minute video clip showing how your basic errand bike is put
together, including seeing a wheel-building machine in action:

Disheartening.

Sergio
Pisa

Bolloocks, what's disheartening about it? No different than slamming a
Toyota together. A bicycle is just a machine, and this bicycle's
assembly isn't any more mystical than a Ferrari or Lexus being
assembled. It doesn't have to be something that brings awe to somebody
or a tear to their eye. Unless I'm mistaken, the video is from Japan,
where zillions ride these bikes to the train station. Not every
country is fascinated with the auto, like the US is.

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sergio said:

Quoted message said:

A cool 10 minute video clip showing how your basic errand bike is put
together, including seeing a wheel-building machine in action:

Disheartening.

Sergio
Pisa

Sergio:

Never ask how sausage is made.

--
Ryan Cousineau [email hidden] http://www.wiredcola.com/
"I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics
to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos

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Quoted message said:

A cool 10 minute video clip showing how your basic errand bike is put
together, including seeing a wheel-building machine in action:

Did anyone else notice that these bikes had rear-facing "track
fork"-style dropouts for the rear wheel?

Presumably this works well with gearhubs?

--
Ryan Cousineau [email hidden] http://www.wiredcola.com/
"I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics
to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos

In article <[email hidden]>,

Ryan Cousineau said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

sergio said:

Quoted message said:

A cool 10 minute video clip showing how your basic errand bike is
put together, including seeing a wheel-building machine in
action:

Disheartening.

Sergio Pisa

Sergio:

Never ask how sausage is made.

Or how politics works.

"Qui si parla Campagnolo" <[email hidden]> wrote in
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Quoted message said:

Bolloocks, what's disheartening about it? No different than slamming a
Toyota together.

I found the assembly method fascinating - especially the whole wheel
building process. Quite clever engineering.

Quoted message said:

Unless I'm mistaken, the video is from Japan,
where zillions ride these bikes to the train station. Not every
country is fascinated with the auto, like the US is.

It seemed to me that there were so many of these types of bike left
(unlocked) at the train stations that there was no way that anyone could
find their own when they got back. I thought they might just take the
nearest one - like the "leave a penny, take a penny trays" near cash
registers. <grin>

But actually, I found that they are even MORE fascinated with the
automobile in Japan than we are here (especially the youth.) The problem
is that most Japanese can't afford to drive a car, and even if you could,
it's just not practical in the cities like Tokyo where parking is almost
non-existent, and outrageously expensive if you do find it. Many of those
that have a car use it only on weekends and use the trains to commute to
work. But don't kid yourself, the Japanese do love cars - especially
classic American models!

Cheers,
David

Quoted message said:

A cool 10 minute video clip showing how your basic errand bike is put
together, including seeing a wheel-building machine in action:

I *have* to get that wheel truing machines, beats the hell out of a Park
TS-3 >🙂

Qui si parla Campagnolo said:

sergio said:

Disheartening.

Bolloocks, what's disheartening about it?

There may well be a misunderstanding of the word 'disheartening', and
consequently misuse, of it on my part.
I meant 'scoraggiante', diminishing my desire to continue doing things
the way I am used to. So easy and quick to prepare and coat the
frameset; insert, engage nipples and tighten spokes, just to name a
couple of steps that I admired in the video.
Nor can one doubt that a result of high quality can be achieved through
that procedure.

What would be left for us, bare hands humans?
Just repair work?

Sergio
Pisa

Quoted message said:

What would be left for us, bare hands humans?
Just repair work?

Sergio
Pisa

Sergio: You should have seen the documentary they did on CNBC a couple days
ago on American Airlines. Specifically the way luggage is routed through the
terminal. Almost comical the way these big arms with brushes bash at the
luggage to turn it down this ramp or that.

--Mike Jacoubowsky
Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReaction.com
Redwood City & Los Altos, CA USA

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Qui si parla Campagnolo said:

sergio said:

Disheartening.

Bolloocks, what's disheartening about it?

There may well be a misunderstanding of the word 'disheartening', and
consequently misuse, of it on my part.
I meant 'scoraggiante', diminishing my desire to continue doing things
the way I am used to. So easy and quick to prepare and coat the
frameset; insert, engage nipples and tighten spokes, just to name a
couple of steps that I admired in the video.
Nor can one doubt that a result of high quality can be achieved through
that procedure.

What would be left for us, bare hands humans?
Just repair work?

Sergio
Pisa

sergio said:

Qui si parla Campagnolo said:

sergio said:

Disheartening.

Bolloocks, what's disheartening about it?

There may well be a misunderstanding of the word 'disheartening', and
consequently misuse, of it on my part.
I meant 'scoraggiante', diminishing my desire to continue doing things
the way I am used to. So easy and quick to prepare and coat the
frameset; insert, engage nipples and tighten spokes, just to name a
couple of steps that I admired in the video.
Nor can one doubt that a result of high quality can be achieved through
that procedure.

What would be left for us, bare hands humans?
Just repair work?

Riding them.
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JT
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A cool 10 minute video clip showing how your basic errand bike is put
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Thanks,

That wheelbuilding machine was amazing!

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Tim McNamara said:

Ryan Cousineau <[email hidden]> wrote:

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Quoted message said:

Never ask how sausage is made.

Or how politics works.

There's a difference?

Mark Hickey
Habanero Cycles
http://www.habcycles.com
Home of the $795 ti frame

Quoted message said:

A cool 10 minute video clip showing how your basic errand bike is put
together, including seeing a wheel-building machine in action:

Anyone know the process for making those handlebar bulges?
--
Phil Lee, Squid

Phil Lee said:

Quoted message said:

A cool 10 minute video clip showing how your basic errand bike is put
together, including seeing a wheel-building machine in action:

Anyone know the process for making those handlebar bulges?

Family newsgroup, Phil.

<eg>

Here is a farmer doing a traditrional butchering a pig.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3979163669536846742&q=butcher+shop&hl=en

Mark Hickey said:

Tim McNamara said:

Ryan Cousineau <[email hidden]> wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Never ask how sausage is made.

Or how politics works.

There's a difference?

Mark Hickey
Habanero Cycles
http://www.habcycles.com
Home of the $795 ti frame

"Phil Lee, Squid" <[email hidden]> wrote in
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Anyone know the process for making those handlebar bulges?

I believe that the method is to use a mandrel with an eccentric on the
end inserted into the tube then turned while pressing against an opposing
form:

/-------\
--------------/ \---------------- <-- Handlebar tube
//
================// <-- Tool being turned

--------------\ /----------------
\-------/

Sorry for the poor ASCII drawing, but I think it might give the concept.
Then see the video and I think you can see the tool going in and out of
the tube - although the "working end" of the tool does not seem to be
visable.

Cheers,
David

John Forrest Tomlinson said:

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What would be left for us, bare hands humans?
Just repair work?

Riding them.

I doubt it. Here is my latest acquisition: just finished.

Sergio
Pisa
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Broken Carbitubo, along with broken Bi-titans..not unusual.

sergio said:

John Forrest Tomlinson said:

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What would be left for us, bare hands humans?
Just repair work?

Riding them.

I doubt it. Here is my latest acquisition: just finished.

Sergio
Pisa
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sergio said:

John Forrest Tomlinson said:

Quoted message said:

What would be left for us, bare hands humans?
Just repair work?

Riding them.

I doubt it. Here is my latest acquisition: just finished.

Sergio
Pisa
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Is the big honking cable thing to hold it together?? Seems like a lot
of work for this frame.