Prepare for a bit of an image dump, and then a progress update.
Here is some bamboo, cooling after being heat-treated in the oven:
Here we are wrapping the joints with twine soaked in epoxy:
And here we are with the frame almost completed (minus the rear triangle) vigorously testing its tensile strenth:
As you can see, we’ve come pretty far over the past week or so. We have been working almost nonstop on our project all through the long weekend; this was the most productive (and least relaxing) long weekend I’ve ever experienced. Our frame is almost done, and we are in the process of fabricating motor and battery mount points (about 50%) done with that. We’ve come a long way, but we have a lot left to do–namely, actually somehow synthesizing the motorcycle from all its constituent parts that we’ve put together over the past six months.
More updates to come.
