Big fan of How It's Made and was just cruising through a few youtube vids when I cam across these two.
An interesting diversion anyway.
Fizik Saddles
A Devinci FS
How It's Made is essential "5am on a night shift" TV viewing. Most subjects are accompanied with murmuring of "oh, that's how they do that".
🙂
TV on a night shift, they've even blocked access to any video content on our PC's, and I suspect it's only a matter of time before they block STW. 🙁
OK... So the little smacks they were employing to get the frame perfectly straight...
How many of us could claim to have a straight and true frame after watching that?
the little smacks they were employing to get the frame perfectly straight
I believe the term is 'Slight adjustment with a precision instrument'
Nowt wrong with a bit of percussive alignment 😉
There's a lovely old film of the Raleigh factory, showing the production line - tubes carefully mitered, fitted into jigs, brazed on automated gas hearths, then the last stage is an alignment table and a massive bloke with a scaffold tube bending the frame straight 😀
Loved that, really interesting stuff 🙂
Here's the 1945 Raleigh equivalent. Proper industrial machinery, class and gender inequality, health and safety (not) and gas pipe being welded but unfortunately I couldn't find the precision adjustments. Skilled workers are required to fit wheels apparently.
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Love How it's made. Sometimes there just isn't quite enough detail for me though.
So interesting.
There's one for MRP Stage suspension forks too
Inner tubes!
Bike wheels (non-disc)...
...and tyres:
bravo bongo.
Where's the English narrator gone?
It's not the same without his Mancunian tones.
They also did one with Campag/ KMC chains.
Where's the English narrator gone?
Different markets had different presenters. I think mainly to allow for different metric/imperial measurements to be used in the narration. Most clips on YouTube are the US version, just as they were more readily available I guess. Especially as there has been 26 seasons there, compared to 16 or 17 here.
What I do remember about the UK shows, was any signage/text shown on screen was in French.....
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....so I used to think the show was French. Turns out it's actually made in Quebec, with a lot of the early episodes being filmed there. The UK shows just had Tony Hirst doing a dub, and then the Americans would do the same.
FWIW: http://www.questtv.co.uk/how-its-made-on-quest/ has all the latest UK episodes on their on demand player.
bencooper - Member
Nowt wrong with a bit of percussive alignment
I might try that on my nephew 😉
(joke, they are both bigger than me now!)
I enjoyed that. Good to have a bit of insight into what goes on in making the stuff we buy.