Vallie Components - bicycle part and accessory design

Wow. I've been super busy. Long hours at the machine shop dialing in on minute operations.

I've basically given myself the goal of having hubs for sale at Maker Faire. This initially didn't seem possible, but I'm intent on making it happen. Tracking every stage of production down to the minute is allowing me to fit time in where I didn't originally think possible.. and manage to get everything lined up. I'm sort of banking on the hubs being done.

Here's a grainy phone shot of what the fronts look like right now:

..and some parts for the rears hot from the lathe:

^Interesting side note, the cutting inserts used on the 4140 axle are called 'Purple Haze', and come in packaging that reminds me of drug paraphernalia. They do produce a beautiful clean blue/purple chip when run at the right speed however.

While I still feel like I'm flailing, I've made a lot of progress in the past month. I've got my prototype stainless universal front rack up and running on a bike, and it holds a tonne of weight. I've also got my hubs at about 90% completion right now. Its crazy.

A couple of rack shots:

^VCR05 (FLITE4) is powdercoated and will be for sale at Maker Faire

^Testing out new mounting systems for the universal mount

Anyways, come check me out at Maker Faire Vancouver on June 25th and 26th. I'll be hanging out and building wheels with my soon to be completed hubs, while quilt making robots shoot fire around me.

< Prev		Next >