The diagram shows the frame geometry of a conventional bicycle. It is important to determine which components are in tension, which in compression, which experience bending forces, and what the ...

Colnago released its visually stunning Y1Rs today, claiming significant gains in both speed and stiffness from the unique design.

Take a look, the uppers are bike forks and the lowers were welded together from bike frame tubes. The spindles are where it gets a little tricky but [Kong79] made it happen with his resourcefulness.

The photograph shows a fatigue crack in the frame tube of a bicycle. The crack started at a tube joint region and then propagated, under the fluctuating stresses from road shocks, into the tube. In ...