How-to help and guides

The basics

Sheldon Brown's famous web pages on bikes

Welding and brazing

welding
zinc_dangers

Building steel frames

Andrew Stewart's frame building photos 03-27-2004

Other materials

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composites
Damon Rinard's Carbon Fibre Q&A
Coroplast is a cheap corrugated plastic material very easy to work with and very popular with recumbent builders. Mr. Volk's Coroplast Craziness Page

Design issues

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crankset_height
hub_gearing
intermediate_freewheel
moulton_conversion
fairings_rear
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brakes_self_energizing
trike_braking
stub-axle_brakes
spokes
suspension
toothed_belts

Advanced

Aerodynamics

Build your own wind tunnel. Scientific American November 1997 article: "Caught in a Wind Tunnel" (costs money now to download article, darn)

Princeton University web page on Aerodynamics of Bicycles

Plans

Rick Horowitz's "THUNDERBOLT" trike plans
Tour Easy LWB a descriptive set of plans for a tour easy clone, made from 2 diamond frames

Software tools

CAD Drawings of 'bents and bike parts

Spreadsheets and programs to aide in the design and testing of human-powered vehicles.

Sanders, Snyder & Tetz set of Useful bike specific TOOLS in spreadsheet format

Giles Puckett's sprocket 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.

Projects

Wisil HPV Projects page If you want to build a streamliner, go here first!

Wolfgang Bion's Home PageMany hombuilder tips. Construction of a full fairing.
Geoffrey Bird's Velodynamics page
Don Boose builds an EconBent
Steve Edward's Recumbent Trike Project built with a wood frame.
Jim Gallant's SPRUNG recumbent
Kenny's Termite taxi - homebuilt wooden 'bent
Simon Rafferty's electrically-assisted Anthrotech project
Damon Rinard's Bike Tech Archived but lots of good information including How I Made A Carbon Fiber/Epoxy Composite Bike In My Garage
Steve's Recumbent Home Page Steve Robson has articles on his own recumbent projects and links to other places.
Steve's Recumbent Bicycle Project Steve Schmeck builds his bikes with organo-cellulose composites. (that's WOOD)
Timothy Smith's pages Tim maintains his own pages here with details on many projects.
Dan Speas cable driven bike (patented)
Bob Stuart's Car-Cycle X-4, a velomobile
Izzy Urieli's Grasshopper
Erik Wannee's variations on a FlevoBike

Some photo galleries

Oliver Zechlin's HPV '96 CD-ROM pictures
New Builder's photo gallery (Used to be "new" anyway --ed.)
Old Builder's photo gallery
IHPVA Home Send updates to: webmaster@ihpva.org

http://www.ihpva.org/Builders/

updated and checked all links 3/37/2004 bwilson