Designing and building your own frameset: An illustrated guide for the amateur bicycle builder

Talbot, Richard P.

ISBN 10: 0960241817 / ISBN 13: 9780960241811

Published by The Manet Guild, 1979

About this Item

The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.

Seller Inventory # BVV.0960241817.A

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Designing and building your own frameset: An illustrated guide for the amateur bicycle builder
• Publisher: The Manet Guild
• Publication Date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0960241817
• ISBN 13: 9780960241811
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: acceptable

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Synopsis

Talbot discusses both theory and practice of building a lugged steel road frame, including building your own jigs. The emphasis is on hand labor, not machine tools -- he assumes you will miter your tube joints by hand with files and scrapers, not stick the tubes in a milling machine. There's an introduction to brazing and materials, too, though it's specifically *not* a beginner's guide to brazing -- Talbot suggests looking for a local vocational school to learn how to braze, since practice is essential. The design considerations apply no matter what construction method you plan to use, so this is still a useful book for the welders out there.