Calling all professional engineers

[Brian d marge]

Mechanical , electrical, Machinists ( and any of those young ladies on K road )

This idea has been rattling around in my brain and it wont leave, so I ll put it here.

There are some enthusiastic young fellas , mucking about with bikes on this site , such as in the Bucket forum,

There are others here who have a skills in Engineering,

Why dont we put them together? and help an enthusiastic young fella build and develop a bike ? and at the same time improve any skills that we want to get stronger in

Create a professional looking team ( sorry a bit scruffy some of those buckets )

and use this medium to get it going.

For example I can use CAD , CFD finite analysis, Rapid prototyping. a whole bike set-up software and have access to Bike parts over here in Japan ( also I can chuck in some money couple of hundred a month depends on my drinking !! )

Me personally , I am interested in electric bikes , as its a field I have little knowledge in

Just a thought thats all ,

Stephen

[avgas]

Sounds interesting......

I am quite happy to have my brains picked, but alas time is short for me. I barely have enough time to get my own bike sorted.

So probably best bet for me is if you guys get stuck leave and question up here and I will save this thread and check in every now and then.

Sorry can't be much more help than that. But I have no work life balance, I am the engineer they lock in the cupboard at night.
-Stew

[Brian d marge]

Sounds interesting......

I am quite happy to have my brains picked, but alas time is short for me. I barely have enough time to get my own bike sorted.

So probably best bet for me is if you guys get stuck leave and question up here and I will save this thread and check in every now and then.

Sorry can't be much more help than that. But I have no work life balance, I am the engineer they lock in the cupboard at night.
-Stew

Thats what I was thinking , There will be others who can pick up the ball and run with it

if there is enough interest , could make it a sticky

Stephen

[lostinflyz]

I've just finished my SXV road race conversion, after nats i'd be happy to help anyone (I'm a prof eng. (mechanical), just a little green). Access to similar stuff as stephen (not japan so much though).

i just saw the vyrus moto2 bike and would love to make a hub centred steering or girder style race frame . one for the sxv motor would be cool but i reckon one about 125 size that meets moto3 specs and our local rules would be awesome, just drop in any 250 motocross lump.

Electric bikes would be cool too, but very expensive once you source batteries motors and control units.

[Clivoris]

Great thread BD (Stephen). I have a van and some hands on experience with race-bikes but limited fabrication skills. I'm pretty busy getting my daughter started in streetstock and buckets, but will keep an eye on this. Happy to help if I can.

[Brian d marge]

we just need a young fella .( or fellaress )

Stephen

[Brian d marge]

Great thread BD (Stephen). I have a van and some hands on experience with race-bikes but limited fabrication skills. I'm pretty busy getting my daughter started in streetstock and buckets, but will keep an eye on this. Happy to help if I can.

well there are two professional Engineers at your daughters command

Stephen

[boostin]

http://www.cosentinoengineering.com/moto2/index.htm

Check out their blog. Some nice engineering in there. Really like the Supermono Mk.2.

I would love to make a hossack front ended bucket. Just very little time and money to spend on it. Maybe in about 12 months.

[scott411]

I've just finished my SXV road race conversion, after nats i'd be happy to help anyone (I'm a prof eng. (mechanical), just a little green). Access to similar stuff as stephen (not japan so much though).

i just saw the vyrus moto2 bike and would love to make a hub centred steering or girder style race frame . one for the sxv motor would be cool but i reckon one about 125 size that meets moto3 specs and our local rules would be awesome, just drop in any 250 motocross lump.

Electric bikes would be cool too, but very expensive once you source batteries motors and control units.

if you are going to run a 250F motocross motor you will get very good at replaceing valves and such, they will not handle road racing that well in my experience,

[lostinflyz]

if you are going to run a 250F motocross motor you will get very good at replaceing valves and such, they will not handle road racing that well in my experience,

well that would be part of the challenge wouldn't it???

that being said power ain't free and easy, if you build a race bike, you expect to strip it on a regular basis, particularly if its a prototype. or maybe im a sucker for punishement.

[Yow Ling]

( also I can chuck in some money couple of hundred a month depends on my drinking !! )


Stephen

send the money Ill do my best !

[bogan]

been doing some mods to my own bikes here and there over the years, so may be able to offer some help. What class you thinking of designing for and what are the restrictions on it? cos a lot of em don't allow too much design freedom...

[Moooools]

I am getting close to the end of my first project; a bucket consisting of CB 125T in a TZR250 (1KT) chassis (or am I? Project could go forever...) and I am already lining up my next one.

This will be my last year I have a garage to work in before leaving home and heading to uni (to study engineering of course), and had something a bit over the top in mind.

I managed to pick up a CBR 250 MC19 rolling chassis cheaply and, with the help of an engineer who knows his stuff, am keen to get a CBR 250 engine back in it, take out one piston and conrod, and de-stroke the remaining 3 cylinders (about 3.5mm for a total 7mm less stroke) and then either use longer conrods or skim the barrels to get the compression ratio right, and end up with a 150cc bucket racer with 3/4 of a proper engine; ie not a commuter. *cough*FXR*

Does this sound like something anyone would be interesting in helping me out with?
Would this actually work?
Is it to complex/simple?

Max

[bogan]

I am getting close to the end of my first project; a bucket consisting of CB 125T in a TZR250 (1KT) chassis (or am I? Project could go forever...) and I am already lining up my next one.

This will be my last year I have a garage to work in before leaving home and heading to uni (to study engineering of course), and had something a bit over the top in mind.

I managed to pick up a CBR 250 MC19 rolling chassis cheaply and, with the help of an engineer who knows his stuff, am keen to get a CBR 250 engine back in it, take out one piston and conrod, and de-stroke the remaining 3 cylinders (about 3.5mm for a total 7mm less stroke) and then either use longer conrods or skim the barrels to get the compression ratio right, and end up with a 150cc bucket racer with 3/4 of a proper engine; ie not a commuter. *cough*FXR*

Does this sound like something anyone would be interesting in helping me out with?
Would this actually work?
Is it to complex/simple?

Max

Interesting, designing and balancing that crank could be fun (in a nightmare kind of way) though! Gonna stick with the stock firing order? Pity the boosted restriction is 100cc (iirc) otherwise you could just run 2 cylinders as superchargers and 2 as normal...

[Moooools]

I would like to avoid making a new crank if possible. Hopefully I will simply be able to get the stock crank modified.
The firing order will probably stay the same. Keep that part easy.