Akira Bike Project - 23 - engine reduction cage - part 3 

Thanks, will do!

Awesome, thank you!

Those were the days! Took a while to get ramped up but things are going great now.

Awesome - welcome to the project! glad you found it. I'll check that build out you mentioned, It's weird how close so many people come to a good design but then just zip off in some odd seating or geometry that makes it uncomfortable or unusable. I think it really needs to be designed from the ground up to do it right, instead of aiming for "minimal chopping" of some existing design(s). And yup, the square tubing is absolutely because it's a development prototype, I'll probably stick with it for the first gen kit bike version, but in the high end weight and performance optimized, it's absolutely going to be bent round tubing. I all ready have most of the design worked out, just waiting on finalizing everything from the prototype development. The benefit / cost (in terms of design and fabrication) of square vs round just made square more sensible in prototype dev where you might have to cut and move things multiple times. Same reason why I'm holding off on fabricating composite panels and molds. Don't want to have to move a frame bar and inch and then make a mold I spent hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars useless.

It's a fine line to walk - I try to make it only exactly as complex as necessary. I do think complexity toward a meaningful goal can have it's own beauty though too.

I hope you mean in popularity, and not physically explode lol

They are accessible but not fun, I'm more concerned about them vibrating loose or not being able to handle the shock loads. But worse case I can just weld all the plates in place.

@@matus1976 can't wait to see the finished product. You should make a mold and make fiberglass body panels for it too

@@fladoodel oh yeah absolutely going to be making molds, that will probably be in the phase II or III prototype. Problem with the molds is any change you make on the frame/bike will likely have major impact on the body panels and making molds and plugs is a huge endeavor. So I want to have the frame and geometry finalized before making molds. I will be hand making some composite airducts for the split radiators very soon though.

Why rush, making things is fun

@@vicarofleng23 I absolutely agree with you, I have more fun building than I do riding my creations. This particular bike of his has been years in the making literally and I was only half joking when I said we'll all be dead by the time he finished it.

haha tough crowd! yeah I'm working on it, theres some good progress now and more videos almost done, just this part took an extended amount of time. It's not really more complex than it needs to be given what I'm doing and my fabrication capacity, but I totally get that concern as more of the context hasn't been shared yet. Just have a little faith and you'll be rewarded..

Hi @@matus1976 , hope you are well! If I recall, from years ago your plan was always to build it, then optimize it correct? I know from some of the other projects I've seen you do over the years the time and complexity to build something is always part of the bigger strategy.

@@MrJakeCT I'm good, hope you are too! email me, let's catch up! That's exactly right though, going through a couple phases / bigger long term plans. The first is not weight or performance optimized and many of the features I want to add arent there yet, I want to make sure the platform and basic geometry is good. After that it's going to evolve through multiple phases with different complete bikes getting tested.