Long Andre

Description

• Building a long john-type caro bike according to these (Werkstatt Lastenrad links):
  • nice PDF document "Werkstatt-Kärtchen zum Bau von Long André"
  • construction manual
• 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... very soon, access to the Werstatt Lastenrad wiki will be obtained and the key stuff will be translated there (and linked from here presumably). Meanwhile, the first things are being translated here.

BikeBench

see the BikeBench 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