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Step 5Wood - the Miracle Material
Here's the bike as it appears now in 2007, ten years later.
It's been ridden by hundreds if not thousands of people and was my primary transportation for years. I usually ride it with the front wheel turned around as shown here.
Eventually the hoseclamps holding the frame together broke a few times.
Then the two seat support tubes wore grooves in each other and the big one broke. So I got a nice piece of hardwood, I think it's ash or beech and lashed it in place.
Unlike metal, wood doesn't fatigue.
It's been ridden by hundreds if not thousands of people and was my primary transportation for years. I usually ride it with the front wheel turned around as shown here.
Eventually the hoseclamps holding the frame together broke a few times.
Then the two seat support tubes wore grooves in each other and the big one broke. So I got a nice piece of hardwood, I think it's ash or beech and lashed it in place.
Unlike metal, wood doesn't fatigue.
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