Hub Spacing

I needed a few parts for my Coaster Hub so that it will be sized to fit my bike. We'll see if it works this weekend.

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It's Bed Time

I've been thinking about building a platform bed frame for quite some time now but the project has remained in the planning stages ever since college. I've always regretted not working on this project while in school when I had access to a full wood shop as well as the free time and free space back in Cincinnati. Every year or so I revisit the idea and try to flesh it out a bit more in the hopes that I will actually take the plunge. I put together a rough plan over the weekend for a bit of Home Depot reconnaissance work and this photo shows the paper along with my notes and ideas.

After the jump I have a more refined drawing with a plan view and side and end elevations.


It's mainly comprised of 2x4's held together with lag bolts. I'm not entirely sure that it will be stable enough as I've designed it but I guess there's only one way to find out. Unfortunately the frame hasn't been built yet and I don't have a date for Valentine's day so I guess the testing will have to wait.

I have added a center leg to support the center of the frame as I've seen them on some of the bed frames sold at DWR. I've also started an Excel spreadsheet in order to keep track of the parts needed and as a way to track the total cost of the project. I guess the tools that the merchants and pre-production people at my work use are good from something after all. Hopefully with all of this careful planning I will actually pull it together this time and complete the project.

sweet dreams!
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Bike!

A napkin sketch showing the difference between adjusting screws for horizontal drop outs and chain tensioners for track ends.

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Shelf!

A first for the daily drawings, a digital image. This is the sketch elevation of the IKEA shelving unit I'm planning on purchasing. I did a pencil sketch with the dimensions and posted it a few weeks ago. Here is the scale drawing produced in Adobe Illustrator. It looks like everything will fit as I had planned it and the total price of the parts needed for this set-up is only $163.00 what a deal!

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Hub Dimensions

This is the two hub measurements needed to calculate the length of spokes needed to build a new wheel. Andrew, Travis and I are building some wheels for our bikes.

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Wheels

Tonight at dinner I was explaining to Andrew and Travis some of the structural qualities of bicycle wheels and these are some placemat drawings. Nothing too crazy or exciting.

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