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well we're starting a business selling the bamboo frames. If you want one let me know.

ive got this one on my fixie, I love it. http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-Felt-Carbon-lightweight-saddle-with-Ti-rails-NR_W0QQitemZ170184523157QQihZ007QQcategoryZ106952QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem on my road bike i have a nice selle italia leather one

well, we're working on bamboo-spoked wheels...

With the uncut steerer, heavy seat, and super heavy duty chain (think 1.5 lbs) the bike weighs 14.7 lbs! We are so happy with it.

monzter, as an engineer at such a great bike company what do you think of our bike. Any suggestions?

Drinking and biking, however, go together very well. I am seriously considering wrapping a bottle opener onto the seat tube.

Thanks everyone. Also, incase anyone cares, here is my other fixie. It is a 70's atala road bike. It was given to my by my father, who rode it in manhattan when he bought it new. I stripped it to bare metal, gave a brushed finish with sandpaper, painted lugs and clearcoated.

the frame was 3lbs we havent weighed the entire bike yet. It should be on the gallery tomorrow.

I am gonna be riding mine fixed, the left side drive was half accident. We accidentally put the bottom bracket housing in backwards, and upon realizing that the left side chainstays were thicker anyway we decided to run with it and build it left side drive.

haha. The fork is borrowed and very expensive so it stays while I wait for mine to come.

certainly strong enough for general road riding. I think I would want a slightly beefier rear triangle for a mountain bike, but I don't think I'm gonna break this short of taking if off of stair sets.

yea its got a seat in one of the pics, the resin seatpost adjuster resin wasnt dry in time for the first test ride.

So my project for my engineering design class was a bamboo bike. Local (nj) bamboo, torched and baked. Joints made of individually wrapped strands of carbon fiber. CNC'd dropouts, hand machined bottom bracket, head tube, seat adjuster. Hope you guys like it.

is that a turbo under the seat?

yea, i drink daily.... I'm in college though so thats not much of an accomplishment

As people have said before, no one is doubting that a heavier car will be harder on the drive train. And I certainly am not doubting your expertise, skill, or experience, all of which are clearly far above mine. But F=MA isn't a robust explanation for the higher shock loads. By saying that F increases with M, you assume that A remains constant. This would undermine the advantage of bringing a lighter car to the track. The force that breaks drivelines isn't the required force to accelerate the car, but the maximum applied torque before the tires lose grip. This is defined not by the weight of the car necessarily but by the weight on the rear tires. The traction of the tires has a positive, but not necessarily 1:1 linear relationship with the weight loading on the them. Picture a Z with 1000lbs of lead directly on top of or in front of the front axle. It would require no more force for this Z to spin its tires than a standard Z, and thus would be no harder on the drive train. A Z with 1000lbs directly on the rear axle would have significantly more traction as well as a higher traction to overall weight ratio. As a result the required force to spin the tires would be higher and thus it would be harder on the driveline. just food for thought....

I am a Junior Mechanical and Aerospace Engineer a princeton... I love it

I'm not sure, but that looked kinda like the stock SRT-4 wing...

Did anyone else see that red s14 that was fitted out to look like a Z descendent? I would have LOVED to see something like that come out of nissan, I still would.

After seeing veritech's big daddy costume I had to post my halloween project as well. I made it out of foam core, tape, pvc pipe and fittins, window screen, aluminum tube, brass stock, delrin stock, and insulation foam for the knife. Enjoy! Here is the original here is mine, (minus the apron) Hope you guys like it.

I saw one source that said 11.7 in the quarter along with all the data posted above.

well if we bought them retail it would be on the order of 20k, but we are trying to work out a sponsorship deal.

For my junior/senior project at school, a group of friends and I are building an electric car starting with a 240sx and using lithium ion batteries. According to some of the charts i've seen online, the sx is one of the most aerodynamic cars out there once frontal area is considered. Also we can get the weight down pretty low with one of them. We are leaning more towards the performance end rather than the max efficiency end, but our goal is a car with a range of 100-150 miles and less weight than the standard car with a tank of gas, which is reasonable considering the lithium batteries.

Well, its not a 510, its a skyline gt-r, and its also not an intercooler, its an oil cooler. There was/is a trend in japan of mounting oil coolers outside the body with long draping oil lines running to them.

From what i understand, the nice thing about the jag irs is that it bolts in and out as a unit; so once you adapt the box frame around the center of the irs to the new car, your pretty much done.