"The Shed"
Information and Resources for the Builder
These pages include links to parts suppliers and home builder's pages, and articles, software tools, CAD files. It's early days yet, but these pages will grow with time and hopefully become a worthwhile resource for homebuilders.
Links
Tim Smith's pages, details of a number of projects
Peter Heal's pages, Human Powered Boat
Andrew Stewart's pages, details the construction of a SWB.
Sourcing parts can be done from many of the suppliers we have, please check out our suppliers page.
Software tools
Giles Puckett's world famous Tube Mitering Software, and his chainring patterns. The later is especially useful for builders of recumbents who sometimes find themselves in need of really big chainrings. This article and a series of JPEG images will help you make your own.
FelixCAD LT - Comprehensive Windows CAD program, and it's free (to the first million licences). "FelixCAD LT, where nearly 300 Powerful 2D drawing and editing commands can be used to create professional quality designs from scratch, or to edit billions of existing designs saved in industry standard DWG®, DXF® and FLX® file formats."
BikeCAD is an online parametric CAD tool for bicycle frame design. The Bicycle Forest has created several variations of this program to accommodate specific designs and tasks such as recumbents, full suspension, tandems, and wheel building. This collection of java applets can generate DXF files of a variety of bicycle configurations including short wheelbase recumbents. Brent Curry's CAD software is located at Bikeforest