Saturday, December 14, 2013

Future plans

Ok, so 2013 wasn't the most productive year for the team. With my job at SSL keeping me busy with crazy hours I haven't had any time to work on the bike for months. That has now changed. There have been some recent developments that will finally get the team moving forward again.

1) I recently bought a new HP all-in-one computer with a dual monitor set up. I'm currently looking into several free mechanical CAD programs that we can use. Some of these are open source. Powershape-e and DesignSpark Mechanical seem the most promising. But there are many other impressive free mechanical CAD software I will be looking into.


 
2) I also acquired quite a bit of 80/20 tubing from my company for free. We can use the tubing for a frame jig and/or building a recumbent version of the Serotta frame fitting system.

3) We have a workspace that may work for us to do our work. The one drawback is that there is no electrical power. We'll have to work on this drawback.

But I believe 2014 will be our year and we will build on first speed bike. We have much work ahead of us but I look forward to the challenge. Battle Mountain 2014 here we come!

-Adam

 

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Muffler Tubing!

So here is the muffler tubing we will use to build our first test frame. It's 2" OD x .067" wall thickness.



Tuesday, March 5, 2013

We have a sponsor and a workshop!

I'd like to announce our very first official sponsor, Thermal Conductive Bonding, Inc (TCB). TCB is manufacturing company that specializes in sputtering and elastomer bonding and molding.



Due to their generosity the San Jose HPV Club now has a place to do work. This will be our "workshop"!


Our first step is to clean up the area, set up a work bench tooling and storage racks, and move the foam molds in. Now, it's time to get to work!