Long Andre

Description

• Building a long john-type caro bike according to these (Werkstatt Lastenrad links):
  • illustration-rich PDF document "Werkstatt-Kärtchen zum Bau von Long André" (German)
  • original construction manual (German)
  • French description, translation ongoing
• This is not a typical Hackerspace project, but more a typical "offene Werkstatt" project for the very young UCmakerspace.
• Making roadworthy vehicles is delicate enough not to improvise too much at first. Hence, this project is currently being led in a spirit of carefully following existing documentation.
• The first thing to build is not the bike itself but a BikeBench, which is a jig / workbench for bicycle-based creations, designed and implemented by Thomas Viebach from Werkstatt Lastenrad. Links: Werkstatt Lastenrad's BikeBench wiki page, this wiki's BikeBench page

Goal

• make a 1st working prototype of a Long André
• organize Long André manufacturing workshops

Obstacles

• documentation must be translated first (pending)

Component

• BOM & list of needed tools are the first things that will be translated
• Documentation has almost the status of a component...

BikeBench

see the BikeBench page.

Long-André: description en français

werkstatt-lastenrad.de page

Schedule

• Opening: May 2015
• Ending: ?

Participants

• Léonard (Leader, UCmakerspace guest)
• Marc Wettstein (UCmakerspace boss)
• The Werkstatt Lastenrad people in Germany, with whom emails are being exchanged: Christophe Vaillant, André Frieböse, Tom Hansing, Thomas Viebach