Souped Up: Do-It-Yourself Projects to Make Anything Better by Instructables.com

Author:Instructables.com
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Skyhorse
Published: 2013-10-22T16:00:00+00:00

Step 3: Building a Stand

I did not want to build a full jig, but I still built a stand for the frame. This helped enormously with wrapping the carbon fiber and aligning the dropouts.

I screwed two pieces of aluminum angle into a 6” wide plywood board to hold the bottom bracket shell in place. To hold the rear dropouts, I used a threaded rod bolted to the wooden base.

Step 4: Preparing the Donor Frame

Having a donor frame to cut apart makes it possible to build the frame without building or buying a jig. If you can find one for free or at a garage sale, it also cuts down on costs because you do not have to purchase a head tube, bottom bracket shell, or dropouts.

To get the frame ready, strip the powder coat off the head tube, BB shell, and dropouts using paint stripper. Beware, this is pretty nasty stuff. Use it outside, and try to keep if off you.

To avoid using a jig, the order in which you remove the bike’s tubes is very important. You have to be able to retain the bike’s geometry for everything to align and for the bike to track straight. I started out by removing the chain stays. By removing them first, the dropouts are still held in place by the seat stays and no other part of the frame is affected.

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