"How It's Made": bicycles

[William]

Interesting segment on building that reflects the larger builder perspective.

Welding: braze material - inside out, 2 minutes at 800 degrees centigrade.
Frame alignment..cold set.
paint
Stickers
Out fitting the gruppo
wheel building, 36 sp, @65 rims an hour. Machine built.

This segment starts at about 44 seconds in.

Btw, how do they get all those people into eRICHIE'S back yard??? ;)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EuKLQ5l3GY

William

[eddief]

he slaps em together just like that.

[Flat Out]

Wow, making bikes looks really easy. Putting those stickers on is definitely the hardest part.

:)

[Michael Maddox]

I guess Dave keeps the big machines somewhere else in his house? Maybe in his bathroom?

You know, Richie could make better bikes if he'd just get with the program and modernize like CCM. Heck, he could even use that new-fangled chrome-alloy stuff and be "Shimano Equipped."

[soulspinner]

That method of alignment aint exactly precise... :p

[Bruce K]

It's close enough for Wally World.

BK

[D_L_Huns]

I love the Quality Control check at 5:45. :beer:

[Ahneida Ride]

65 rims / hour ?

e-Richie can put together 65 frames / hour

I'll pay for that ! ;)

[William]

65 rims / hour ?

e-Richie can put together 65 frames / hour

I'll pay for that ! ;)

~And~ they're red. Proof enough!



William :D

[jemoryl]

Don't you all know that 20 years ago eRitchie used one of those machines to make a warehouse full of frames and now metes them out as his bills come in?

Actually, I was surprised at the level of human input and checking used to produce a low end CCM. It does look like that film is old - does CCM still make any bikes in Canada? At least they start with CrMo tubes. I had heard that places like Huffy used to have a machine that took in sheet steel, rolled it into seam-welded tubes and spit out arc-welded frames with no human intervention.