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How Much Does it Weigh? Design and Build Your Next Bike

by Bingo Sun Noon

ISBN13: 9780979275401
ISBN10: 0979275407
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How Much Does It Weigh? is a comprehensive book written by Bingo Sun Noon, a life long metal worker and engineer. Targeted at the home bicycle mechanic with a desire to build a project start to finish. All skills levels are represented.

Projects include:

Load Carrying front loader with remote steering
The world's fastest most efficent tandem
Short wheel base recumbent requiring no welding
Modifying a street bike for load carrying
Electric bikes
Materials and stress calculations
Welding techniques
Jigging and clamping and much much more!

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: Rocco Tartinni, December 14, 2010 (view all comments by Rocco Tartinni)
A good look at some fundamental metal working process, stress analysis and fatigue calculations.
The bikes shown in this book don't exist in the mainstream
world of bicycling today, but they will be commonplace in twenty years.
Could use the help of a professional guy who gives books whatever it is that makes people want to buy them.
I keep mine next to the bed and read a page or two everyday. Fun stuff.
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: Shew, March 8, 2010 (view all comments by Shew)
It has been my experience that bicyclers that run around talking about how lightweight their bicycles are seem to missing the point as to how to deliver power to the road.
While anyone can build something heavy, it takes some expertise to build it just right. This book gives insight on what is just right.
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: Shew, March 8, 2010 (view all comments by Shew)
It has been my experience that bicyclers that run around talking about how lightweight their bicycles are seem to missing the point as to how to deliver power to the road.
While anyone can build something heavy, it takes some expertise to build it just right. This book gives insight on what is just right.
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ISBN:: 9780979275401
Subtitle:: Design and Build Your Next Bike
Publisher:: Chris Wilson
Binding:: Trade Paper
Language:: English
Illustrations:: Y
Pages:: 226

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