Fusion360 a 3d printer and dorky road bike aero

[manuel]

Found a cloud based option called simscale that looks to do the job - 

[manuel]

The cannondale had some err issues, so I’ve had to print some tools to help with putting it back together. So far going well, and cheaper than the insane $100 dollars some dude on eBay wants for them.

 

[monkeyseemonkeydo]

On 11/23/2024 at 9:29 PM, manuel said:

The cannondale had some err issues, so I’ve had to print some tools to help with putting it back together. So far going well, and cheaper than the insane $100 dollars some dude on eBay wants for them.

What do they do?... 3D printing for the win for sure! I've been printing finger skis and finger snowboards for the boys this weekend 

[manuel]

So the bottom one clamps the inner bearing races to the machined out slots in the fork. The top bit holds the needle bearings in the right spot so when you slide over the steerer with the outer bearing races in they kinda roll together in exactly the right spot. It’s a mahoosive faff/impossible without them! Ideally I’ll print some kinda expanding  wedge to hold the outer bearing races in the steerer but I just used  an old inner tube pumped up. 

 

now all I need is to print another tool and get some 5wt oil to top up the damper and it’ll actually be pretty good again! Not that it needs to be for trials 🤣 it kinda unassembled itself on a ride internally, so I’m over the moon to get it running again!