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Find out what happens when you give a self-confessed perfectionist who is terrible at woodwork a 'Build Your Own Bike' kit.
The first instalment of the Bamboo Saga sees Wil laying the foundations for the build, and making a start on the frame. What could go wrong?
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so to build a frame uh the first thing
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that we have to do is create The Jig
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that's going to support the frame we
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have a taped head tube uh we have a
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metal seat tube which will go inside a
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piece of bamboo has to be metal
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obviously to hold on to the seat post
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bamboo is probably not going to do that
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so well bottom bracket shell we have
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here um and we also have the uh brace
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for the dropouts and the physical
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dropouts themselves these wooden blocks
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that you see here are basic basically
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the chock so that they're going to pull
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the frame off the table we did run into
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a bit of a snag because these are the
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supports for the head tube so basically
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what you're going to see here
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is is effectively the head tube
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supported by these two guys bolted into
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uh into the table which I'm going to do
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shortly um the drillings for these were
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slightly off like AB just just slightly
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but it was enough that when the uh when
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the head tube was in position it was
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actually sort of cocking the head tube
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off this way and positioned on handle
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bars Fork was going to be sort of off to
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the left there a little bit um the
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reason being appar this is a custom jig
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setup for bamboo um Bicycle Club they
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don't really make jigs for Boost 148 M
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spacing um so it's a it's a custom jobby
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anyway we've got brand new jigs here so
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I'm going to um get these all set up and
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then we're going to drill them into the
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table and uh basically lay the
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foundations for my veral death trap
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drill
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holes
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drill there we go that's that was a
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really good one actually I got bit by
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the
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end that'll drop
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down that's going to kind of lock it in
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it's too
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short
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no that's a very pleasing structure
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where it kind of plugs
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in
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it's slightly off in terms of my
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drilling
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I think you should be fine well you
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drilled it now you got move those
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holes wheels deviating from the
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design gently reworking the geometry
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based on the fact that I okay so you can
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tell here these two guys that I've Dr
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drilled holes for um are to far apart so
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I put another spacer in here just behind
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the head tube and I think that should
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actually take up the slack see the
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problem about doing a home kit like this
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is you don't have anyone to go is this a
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stupid idea
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and which generally I kind of need
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people to help me with those sorts of
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questions I have to turn that shape into
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this shape so it meets in a nice
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round uh like basically like it locks in
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there and then also have to do it up
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here but on an
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angle sounds so simple
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much bigger
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diameter the down tube is than the
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bottom
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bracket I I Pro I guess I'm just going
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to keep
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mitering I'm just looking ahead at this
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guy cuz that there you see where I'm
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going that's that's going to be
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uh challenging
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okay this time going be so out of whack
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anyway
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I've just realized that this is a
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smaller diameter tube than the head tube
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so the M needs to be a tighter radius
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bring that down into place like that's
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that's beautiful there on
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hu look at that how did that
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happen minded it so the bottom brackets
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like that angle and it's not it's dead
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straight obviously that would be great
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if if I rotated it down like there
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that's beautiful that's really nice but
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then it just then it's all cocked up
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here
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oh is it what you're going to do I I
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don't know what I'm going to
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do
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oh is there any way I can modify that
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to it's actually Twisted isn't it yeah
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exactly it's twisted cuz I'm I'm
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standing it on a bench with my
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hand that H Sho m is really good I'm
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really happy with that if you're
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considering making a frame out of bamboo
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right at this very point in time I would
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highly recommend that you don't do that
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cuz it's a stupid idea small gaps that
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are still present once completed can be
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filled at the gluing stage later on with
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a bamboo composite filler we suggesting
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that what you've got is not a small Gap
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it's it's a reasonable reasonable like
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if you look at it from up here it's kind
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hard to see with the camera but if you
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look at it with your own eyes from up
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here see there's contact there look at
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that look yeah you start from the head
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tube is that is that what it says just
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wondering whether next time you could
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start from the bottom bracket no it says
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start from the bottom bracket ah and it
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gives you steps Mark the C line and it
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showing the head tube cut so I cut sand
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and shape check fit which I did check
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and PR repair cool no problems then it
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goes backwards and goes actually first
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before doing all of these instructions
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that we've just told you now select the
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tube join the bottom bracket fit to BB
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Max matching axis head tube to be honest
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you can I could either way now you come
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to think of it kind of makes sense to
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start from the bottom bracket why you've
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got that in there cuz once that's in
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there you can pivot this up and get the
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exact axis control the on and ex up the
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right place have you built a frame out
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of bamboo I know nothing okay I'm not as
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experienced as you clearly yeah clearly
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let's not start dishing out instructions
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things we don't know how to do
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