How bikes work?

laoishibee

Hi everyone!

Id like to find out if anyone has a pdf format guide to how a standard bike works.

If anyone has a link to a haynes bike manual or something similar id be very grateful.

I need this info as im writing a report on how a standard bike works for college.

Cheers!

Jason.

DirkVoodoo

Do you mean maintenance and the workings of a typical geared drive system or do you want to know how the physics of cycling work.

Check out cozybeehive, it's a great resource for either answer.

langdang

This is fascinating - out of interest, what course what college?
There was a guy on the motors forum the other day doing a computer science project on how a car figures out when to flash the "service now" light at you.

This might also be handy: http://adventure.howstuffworks.com/outdoor-activities/biking/bicycle.htm

petethedrummer

http://www.howstuffworks.com/search.php?terms=bicycle

We had a class like this in DCU where we were supposed to write reports on how things like washing machines worked. This book I got as a kid helped out alot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_Things_Work - http://www.davidmacaulay.com/

Bicycles aren't in it but it will come in handy if you have other similar projects.

laoishibee

Thanks Dirkvoodoo, that link seems to have a fairly substantual amount of things to help me! Its the engineering side, like how parts are manufactured and put together, materials, levers and gears etc.

@ langdang
Im in IT Carlow studying Industrial design/Product Design, Engineering Sciences and technology is the subject the essay has to be done for.

Thanks to everyone else
Ive taken info from those websites and finally got up off me arse and found some usefull books on Cycling in the library! All very good!

Cheers!

Jason.

petethedrummer

Have a look at all the parts of this documentary. Robert Penn went round the world hand building a bike from mostly hand built parts. It might be of some help.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj4iu8w5Dys

Also if you get a look at the full Klunkerz movie, it shows how Mountain Bikes were developed by a bunch of teenage hippies in California from old cruiser bikes into the first mountain bikes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h19n-5qIp78

blobbie

Here ye go, in a nutshell..... http://pbskids.org/barney/children/music/wheelsonbike.html



And don't forget to use the Harvard system for references

kumate_champ07

petethedrummer wrote: »

Have a look at all the parts of this documentary. Robert Penn went round the world hand building a bike from mostly hand built parts. It might be of some help.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj4iu8w5Dys

Also if you get a look at the full Klunkerz movie, it shows how Mountain Bikes were developed by a bunch of teenage hippies in California from old cruiser bikes into the first mountain bikes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h19n-5qIp78

Ive always wondered how a bicycle could be built or maintained if there is some sort of apocalypse scenario. spokes and nipples would be a problem without the right machines