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[Closed] A homemade bike worthy of STW - Not enough spoons though

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Spotted this post of Reddit earlier this even. Great looking homemade bike with some nifty features like the rear brake placement. Not sure about the sliding dropouts though:

All started from this design:
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I'll not post the finished bike here as it's nice to see the build process on the link below ๐Ÿ™‚

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http://imgur.com/a/YOAR8


 
Posted : 05/06/2014 8:30 pm
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It's hideous but quite impressive. Not sure why you'd build a TT bike that's not UCI legal tho. Or do triathlons not need to have a UCI legal bike?


 
Posted : 05/06/2014 8:34 pm
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Wish I had a shed like that ๐Ÿ™


 
Posted : 05/06/2014 8:40 pm
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Not sure bikes had to be approved by the UCI in 2009? I thought it was a pretty decent looking thing, especially in the matt black paint before he finished it off.


 
Posted : 05/06/2014 8:41 pm
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[s]Wish I had a wife like that[/s]


 
Posted : 05/06/2014 8:47 pm
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Respect.


 
Posted : 05/06/2014 9:40 pm
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I'd marry him.


 
Posted : 05/06/2014 9:49 pm
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Impressive, nice bunch of toys to help create it.


 
Posted : 05/06/2014 10:06 pm
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I'm impressed though that head tube machining is horrible.


 
Posted : 05/06/2014 10:14 pm
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thats awesome and really good effort, only thing better would have been to do the forks in the same way.
still from scratch that's pretty impressive.


 
Posted : 05/06/2014 10:29 pm
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I saw the first bit with the milled head tube and thought it was going to be a home brew carbon job with all that machining to help bonding, but its a welded TT frame with body filler used to blend the weld surfaces and make it look like a composite aero frame, why didn't he make a plug and laminate a frame, it would have been quicker and neater...


 
Posted : 05/06/2014 10:32 pm
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First crack at a homemade bike, that's bloody impressive. Hope he got a decent job in the bike industry on the back of that, (if that was his aim)


 
Posted : 05/06/2014 10:48 pm
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Like that a lot. Wonder what he's done since?


 
Posted : 05/06/2014 10:57 pm
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Excellent work there - nice job.


 
Posted : 05/06/2014 11:26 pm
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What a show off. I'm jealous.


 
Posted : 06/06/2014 12:53 am