The Bamboo Bike Project is a non-profit organization that aims to implement bamboo bicycles as a sustainable form of transportation in rural areas of third world African countries. They hope to fulfill local needs by setting up a systematic bamboo cargo bicycle building training. Our project focused on designing more efficient methods to conduct specific production processes for building bamboo bicycles. The two main areas of concentration were in boring holes in bamboo shafts and streamlining the bicycle frame assembly by modifying the current joint design. A self-centering hole boring V-block component that can be attached to a table of a drill press was designed and manufactured. Several concepts for the joint design were developed and analyzed for their benefits and shortcomings.

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Creator

• Sandgren, John Nelson
• Dragsbaek, Kirk Henry
• Yang, Becky

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042911-003223

Advisor

• Brown, Christopher A.

Year

• 2011

Date created

• 2011-04-29

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright