Surly Bikes
Here's some Dummy on Dummy action for your enjoyment.
The second batch of samples arrived last week, so we're all working hard to get them assembled and real-world-tested. I prefer to build my bikes at home instead of working in the Surly shop, because it's less distracting and most of my parts are sitting somewhere in my dungeonous basement shop. So I mounted the new frame onto old #1 for transport. I've found that a Dummy frame travels best when it's held onto an Xtracycle or Big Dummy bike using an Xtracycle Wideloader bar inserted through horizontal tubes of both frames
as shown.
We're getting closer to production. We've got a short list of small changes to make at this point. At least one more sample must be produced and approved before we can place the Big Dummy purchase order. This is pretty typical of the pre-production development process. There are generally too many variables (tube spec, geometry, braze-on placement, etc) to design it perfectly in one shot.
I chose red for my sample frameset. But we haven't chosen the production color, yet.
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The second batch of samples arrived last week, so we're all working hard to get them assembled and real-world-tested. I prefer to build my bikes at home instead of working in the Surly shop, because it's less distracting and most of my parts are sitting somewhere in my dungeonous basement shop. So I mounted the new frame onto old #1 for transport. I've found that a Dummy frame travels best when it's held onto an Xtracycle or Big Dummy bike using an Xtracycle Wideloader bar inserted through horizontal tubes of both frames
as shown.
We're getting closer to production. We've got a short list of small changes to make at this point. At least one more sample must be produced and approved before we can place the Big Dummy purchase order. This is pretty typical of the pre-production development process. There are generally too many variables (tube spec, geometry, braze-on placement, etc) to design it perfectly in one shot.
I chose red for my sample frameset. But we haven't chosen the production color, yet.
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