Well today we had a lot of time to do hands on work. I started by taking two straight fork blades and bending them to a specified curve. I then brazed the dropouts ( the parts that the front wheel gets attached to.) I then made sure they were even and tried putting the fork crown on to see how it fit. Then I got a steer tube to attach to the crown. All looked like it was going together pretty good. Tomorrow first thing I will braze it all together and then stick a fork in it! It will be done! Today I came into the shop after finding fork parts and saw a staff member with a digital camera. I had a hunch and went on the school's web site and sure enough they posted pictures they took today in the shop. Do not look for me, remember? I was getting parts. In my absence they took a picture of my drafting table, which has my full size drawing, the fork crown and another head tube lug. Look for it at the bottom of the page I will give you further on. We are starting to fall behind a bit with archiving our daily tasks. I have to say; and I think I can speak for the majority of the 8 students, that the pace so far has been break-neck. Still, going from nothing to a full bike frame in 80 hours is no small feat!
As students we are given the opportunity to buy from a really big catalog of bikes and bike stuff for VERY good prices. We can do this once and only once. We need to have the order in by tomorrow so that we can leave with the stuff a week from tomorrow. I will tell you this much. I will be coming home with something myself. More on that later.
Here is a link to the UBI ( united bicycle institute) web page that contains the pictures referred to above. Notice how everyone is busy!
http://www.bikeschool.com/
This will take you to the main page. Then click on the photo in the top right hand corner of the page.
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