Albert Como
17 posts

Z Compilation: Carboner, the lugged carbon fiber bike.

Albert Como
2016, Post 13 - 2016
This was an effort to build a lugged carbon fiber bike frame with an offroad touring emphasis. Turned out all right, most of the problems appear completely fixable. The ride quality is good.The appearance meets my standards. Project Inspiration: Lugged Carbon Bike PDR: Lugged Carbon Bike Carbon Fiber Frame: Constraints and crisis mitigation. Project Update:…

The future of the Carboner

Albert Como
2016, Student Work
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Final Project Report Continued: Why and What next? Reflection on the semester. Compare your original project intent to what you ended up with. How did the public react? What did you learn from your project, and from the class? What will you do next with the project? What do you wish you had done differently?…

Lugged Carbon Frame: What and How

Albert Como
2016, Student Work
6 Comments
Blog: Final Project Report: What and How. Overall description and photos, then details of what you have made: CAD drawings, fabrication description, costs vs budget, etc.   The frame is finally all assembled. At this point, all the remains before it can be built into a operating bicycle is curing of the epoxy, some finishing…

Lugged Bike Frame Update

Albert Como
2016, Student Work
4 Comments
Finally in the project’s end game. There is a very good chance this will be done on time. The last of adhesive testing is done. My blend of epoxies is good for a shear strength of over 3000 psi. Given the smallest overlap is 2 inches, the weakest compressive/tensile link in the frame is 6000…

Bike Frame Update

Albert Como
2016, Student Work
3 Comments
Completion finally feels like it is within reach. All the steel has been cut, excluding two saw cuts that will be fit a special way after the triangle comes together. My carbon process has been proven, though I intend to iterate it all the way until the end. The heat treating process for coloration is…

Bike Frame Influences

Albert Como
2016, Student Work
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Originally, I was aiming for a highly angular design with bright colors and brush fonts, similar to the 80s “High Tech” aesthetic. http://gizmodo.com/nothing-is-better-than-these-80s-internet-depictions-of-1674498312 I’ve moved over to a more conservative aesthetic, that I see as having numerous, more poorly defined design inspiration. I have always been fascinated by blued steel and gilding, which I see…

Aesthetics Game

Albert Como
2016, Student Work
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The Aesthetics Game before break, Matt Sturm and I got “Spaghetti Western” and “Baby Crib. To the left, we have the baby tombstone with the mobile. The head of the best is stylized after a headstone, the legs are shovels and the crib is lined with barbed wire to keep baby safe. From the rattlesnake…

Project Update: Lugged Carbon Frame

Albert Como
2016, Student Work
3 Comments
Practical Aspects A lot has changed. I learned a lot very quickly, and could no longer justify strict adherence to my original plan. It would be chasing the wrong goals. My original schedule (dates mark completion): 3/6 Mold (70%) 3/13 Composite Testing (started) 3/20 Geometry finalization (DONE!) 3/21 start carbon fiber (plans drawn, waiting on…

PDR: Lugged Carbon Bike

Albert Como
2016, Student Work
8 Comments
What even is it? For my project, I’m building a bicycle frame. I’m trying to use a technology that was the cream of the crop during the late 80s and early 90s. Lugged carbon fiber. This process is essentially the use of metal to make the corners of the frame with carbon tubing adhered between…

Project Inspiration: Lugged Carbon Bike

Albert Como
2016, Student Work
4 Comments
I’ve always loved these bikes: http://i.imgur.com/R2VrM6H.jpg They’re a natural evolution from the lugged steel frames of the 60s-80s. Among bike enthusiasts, this is often recognized as a very 90s thing. The best the 90s had to offer. Unfortunately, they are not exactly becoming more common. Their component compatibility, increasingly obsolete. But I gotta have one. If I’m…

What is great in life?

Albert Como
2016, Student Work
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I’m ultimately trying to become the most well rounded person I can be. With understanding the world around me, and creating things to add to it being my primary intellectual interests, I want no boundaries in my style of study and creation. My life philosophy of completeness have lead me first down the path of…

Albert’s skills.

Albert Como
2016, Student Work
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Crafting: Brazing Polishing Carbon fiber. Nailing things together. Solvent selections Computer graphics Mechanical (Mechanical design masters in progress): Bike mechanics CAD 3D printing Basic machining. Reverse engineering Electrical (Electrical engineering undergraduate): Soldering CAD Circuit design and analysis. Reverse engineering. Programming Free free to consult me on whichever subject.

Old School Stool

Albert Como
2016, Student Work
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The stool, made from a bike rear triangle. [1]While looking at bike stuff on the internet, I came across these stools. I have some scrap frames and junker bikes, so I filed this away as a project. Realizing that there is so much more that can be done with these, I decided to switch away…

Pine Can

Albert Como
2016, Student Work
8 Comments
  I made this pine cone out of aluminum cans. It started as an attempt to make a radially symmetrical candle holder. The cans are decapitated, cut 8 ways at the top, and another can is inserted. A band cut from another can is then placed over the two to provide tension and ensure that…

Cruiser Bikes!

Albert Como
2016, Post 1 - 2016
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After the successful commercialization of the automobile, bicycles became recreational vehicles. These were expensive and occupied a comparable market to the modern road bike. During the depression, demand for an inexpensive and practical bike came into view. This evolved into the cruiser bike, a single speed bike with large tires, stylized after the motorcycle. During their…

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