Do It Yourself Handcycle

My trials, tribulation and progress in designing and building a handcycle, at home, out of carbon fiber.

Sunday, December 30, 2012

Change to the Handcyle's Tail and Power Calculations

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Aerodynamics and a Tail One interesting aspect of aerodynamics shapes is that the tail shape can be as important as the frontal shape. ...
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Finished Front Fork Views

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The front fork is finished -- well almost.  I still have to cutout the dropouts on the added layers and re-drill the holes for the disc bra...
Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Somewhat Finished Fork

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The fork is much closer to completion.  I have added a coat of epoxy over the last layer of carbon fiber.  This epoxy is still wet in the pi...
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

New Handcycle Design

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The winter is here and I needed a winter project. This is especially true since I overworked tendons in both elbows with the training over ...
Sunday, May 6, 2012

DIY Sports Drink and a 12-hr race

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For those that want the headline: 194 miles over 12-hours of handcycling... The best test for my DIY Sports drink is to take consume i...
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Monday, April 2, 2012

Training, bonking... and DIY Sport Drink...

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The handcycle record for 12 hours is 160 miles for the Calvin's Challenge.  I know I can break it if I could have the record attempt i...

Some more design work on the tilting rear wheels

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March Madness gave me a bit of time to design the tilting rear wheels assembly (while listening to some games).  I found some commercially s...
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