Re: [CR]Nuovo-Bilaminate?

(Example: Racing)

From: "Charles T. Young" <youngc@netreach.net>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
References: <40AD500E.4050004@erols.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Nuovo-Bilaminate?
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 21:10:40 -0400


Simon Firth's Cirque 2004 award winning bike is bilaminated construction. He brought along photo album documenting the build but I never got a chance to view it.

Charlie Young Honeybrook, PA

p.s. I promise pictures of my '48 Claud Butler Avant Coureur (Thanks, Hilary) once the shabby red repaint is removed.


----- Original Message -----
From: HM & SS Sachs
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 8:40 PM
Subject: [CR]Nuovo-Bilaminate?



> If it isn't here yet, I will flat-out predict that some
> keeper-of-the-flame will begin doing bilaminate work again within the
> next few years, with enormous freedom in shaping, and complete
> customization. Good fractal representations are not out of the
> question. Why am I so confident? We have several ingredients coming
> together: First, there are wonderful craftsmen-machinists out there
> with substantial aerospace experience, folks like Peter Johnson.
> Second, our Son the Engineer (so is my wife) was chatting about some
> waterjet cutting machinery he had been watching. That's not new, but
> what is happening is ever better integration of CAD with the waterjet,
> so one moves from a sketch to a design that can be cut in a matter of
> minutes. This combination will allow some lovely artistry in flat
> sheet, of exactly the right length to wrap around the tube "seamlessly,"
> for bilaminate construction. I'd suspect that the early offerings will
> come from a person who builds a few frames, and can "bootleg" some time
> on what are still expensive frames. This would never, of course, happen
> in a government contracting shop...
>
> Yes, it will be possible to add random variations, to help in the
> pursuit of Richard (no relation) Sachs's Perfection in Imperfection.
>
> But think of the options, like your own facial profile cut into the head
> tube. Hairy, eh?
>
> harvey (really, just one bottle of hard cider tonight, just 12 oz) sachs
> McLean VA