by admin on November 2, 2011
I despise PROJECT: Fe.ii. This isn’t news. PROJECT: Fe.ii is unnecessary, redundant, unnecessarily redundant and (worst of most) costly. Today, while I was reluctantly cleaning the smell of bitches from head office, I repeatedly relocated a box marked URGENT. Over here, over there. Here, there and back. I stared at it, several times, long and hard. This [...]
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by Thomas on May 11, 2011
*disclaimer – if you work in the manufacturing/engineering/design field, this won’t be new to you, but maybe you’ll enjoy the pictures.* I personally find it hard to believe that I was still in school barely over a year ago. While time has flown, it seems like eons ago that I was prepping for exams and [...]
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by Thomas on April 11, 2011
As promised, Keith, er, Rowan, from Reynolds has come back with some news. I’d say he’s the messenger bearing good news: Tubes! Bent! Really! Not crinkled and shitty, but really bent, all smoothly and what not. Top Tube: This sample is for the new XXS-sized frame. Chainstay: Now that we’ve got some tangible results, this [...]
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by Thomas on March 25, 2011
Last week was meant to be a big announcement, that the our tubes were to be shipped from Columbus. Custom-drawn, niobium-doped, HSLA-sexytime. However, “pepperonium” (as Peter insisted on calling it), took a turn for the wurst. Apparently thin-walled steel is significantly harder to bend than cured pork. But let’s take a step backwards, to get [...]
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by Thomas on March 1, 2011
Things have been quiet here, despite that movement has been in the forward direction on numerous projects. It is much like an extended toilet session after a night spent eating too many burgers – you know you’re doing good work, things are moving along, yet there isn’t anything to show for it. But, relief is [...]
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by Thomas on February 11, 2011
It could be argued that lately I’ve been fixated on the rear end as much as Kenny Powers on trip to Mexico. I didn’t think it was fair to focus on only the non-drive side, what with a fancy new brake mount, so I thought it was time to revisit my stash of concept drawings from [...]
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by Thomas on January 26, 2011
Great basketball forwards know the importance of working in the post. Maybe if the Raptors were better at this, they could win a few games. In seemingly unrelated news, The current rendition of dropout/slider, designed by the benevolent Mark Lepper, has been faithfully securing the rear wheel to mine, and many others’ bicycles. This most [...]
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by Thomas on January 10, 2011
To the untrained eye, it would seem as though things have been quiet at the lab for the past number of weeks. Based on post count, this would be an accurate observation. The lack of posting could be blamed on the fact that I went here. After that, I went here, here, and here. In [...]
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by Thomas on November 22, 2010
When it comes to making rainbows, I’ve written about the what. I’ve written about the how. Of course, those are both pretty much useless without the why. Or is it the who? I’m not really sure. Anyway, keep reading, and maybe you can help me by deciding for yourself. Its all well and good to [...]
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by Thomas on November 8, 2010
For some reason, nobody wants to ride bikes based around 65 pound, solid steel frames. To satisfy the market’s desires for frames that weigh less than the average microwave oven, measures have to be taken to remove unnecessary material from the structure. This often means thin-wall tubing, butted tube sections, and thinner-wall tubing. Of course, frames are [...]
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