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| In its 2017 Heyday |
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| Unique steerer assembly |
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| After the..... |
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| Initial rescue from outside |
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| This sticker came from my time as an engineer at an electric motor manufacturer |
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| Graham with the lock. |
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| Aged timber frame |
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| Sorting frame kit pieces. |
About 10 years ago I completed an industrial design master's degree at Monash University. As part of this, I made several plywood wooden leaning trikes. And after my master's I wasn't satisfied with the seat design and made one more version for a timber design competition and Fringe Furniture 31. I kept that trike intact but it was stored outside. About a year ago I tried to rescue it but I found the glue in the frame had let go and the frame was extremely wobbly. I cleaned it up, took it inside and there it stayed until a few months ago I got motivated to move it on.
My friend Graham (he is a carpenter who works on wooden boats) agreed to take it, and before delivering it to him, I packaged up the bike and a complete NC routed kit for making a timber frame for this style of bike.
A few days ago, M and I delivered the bike and Graham was very pleased. It turns out we just did a swap, Graham makes timber locks from scrap timber and he gave me that in exchange for the bike.
I'll stay in touch with Graham and will hopefully see a version of this wooden bike on the road again. The learning from these frames helped me design better timber tailboxes which I still design and use. I doubt that I'll ever make another one of these, but you can, as the entire design is on Thingiverse here.
Regards Steve Nurse
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