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Building a Bamboo Bike Frame | Robot Daycare

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This is how I built a bamboo bicycle frame. The first step I took in building the frame was to find an old steel frame from which to cut a head tube, bottom bracket shell, and dropouts, as these parts all need to be metal. You can buy these parts individually, but taking them from an existing frames spares you from having to build you own jig and worrying about alignment. Horizontal dropouts are good, since they give you room to adjust the alignment of the wheel. BB Shell: Head tube and headset bearing cups: I chose to leave in the cups, so that most of the headset would be integrated with the

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