Wood Bike Rims Views
Wood Lowrider Bicycle A custom lowrider bike design called “The Woody ”. Iran started his wooden lowrider design four years ago. He began by sketching out cool bike designs that would soon be crafted out of solid pieces of wood. Once all of the sketches were done, his next step was to transform these one-dimensional drawings into a 3D fixtures. His finished bicycle includes a wood frame, forks, rims, chain guard, tank, light, mirror and custom engraving.
Like almost every other part of the first bicycles, the original rims were wooden. You can well imagine that a curved piece of wood was not the bicycle/’s strongest element!Todayo’s rims are made of metal: steel or aluminum or carbon.Most bikes use aluminum rims.Steel rims are heavy, and carbon rims are expensive.Carbon rims are also a little brittle for the rim-risky sport of mountain biking.
Most cyclists will agree that the one thing which improves the performance of any bike (apart from a good pair of legs!) is a good pair of wheels. For a while, Les rode a pair of 'cane' wheels. Basically - wooden rims (bamboo cane)! Those particular rims were manufactured by a firm called Constrictor, who also made the tubeless tyres to go with them, and he says they were incredibly light (for the day).
It just so happens that my good friend Sergio Servadio from Pisa, Italy has made two pairs of wooden rims. One for the FANINI bike manufacturer, who renovated an old racing cycle and wanted them for display purposes, and one pair for himself. He's kindly sent me the following text and pictures describing the 'manufacturing process'. Let me just say, this is a talented chap - he even makes his own corned beef!
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