"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

IHPVA "Builders' Corner
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.

Parts

Greenspeed - Melbourne - supplier of Cro-mo tubing and various components for bikes and trikes, including Nylex Breezeway seat mesh.

British International Trading - 34 Bearing Road, Seven Hills, 2147 Sydney - Cromo tubing and frame parts (e.g. forks, lugs, etc).

Nova Cycles Supply - "We have shared the passion in framebuilding with customers and enthusiasts since 1985 and are commited to being your best source for framebuilding materials."

Software tools

Giles Puckett's world famous Tube Mitering Software, and his chainring patterns.
Builders of recumbents and especially streamliners sometimes find themselves in need of Really Big Chainrings. Here is an article and a series of JPEG images to 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 http://www.bikeforest.com/CAD

Misc.

ISO Front disc brake mount diagram http://www.hayesdiscbrake.com/pdf/Front%20QR%20IS.pdf
ISO Rear disc brake mount diagram http://www.hayesdiscbrake.com/pdf/Rear%20QR%20IS.pdf