Club Builds

Pixie Bikes are the introduction for many club members into building bikes, providing a small-scale platform for experimenting with the basics of frame building. Mitering, welding, and brazing occur so that members become more confident in their abilities.

This bike was the pride and joy of the composites focused members of the club. The entire frame was made in house from pre-preg carbon fiber. The tubes were laid up by hand over aluminum mandrels and the internal lugs were made using a state of the art trapped rubber compression molding technique. The tubes and lugs were then joined together using a high strength aerospace grade adhesive.

For NAHBS 2017 the club created a track bike. The frame was tig welded together and it was the clubs first attempt at working with areo downtubes. Now it shreds on the streets as a fixie, even racing in the prestigious San Luis Obispo Little 500.

A no-expense spared downhill shredder capable of whatever thrown at it, the Downhill Assault Vehicle Extraordinaire featured custom CNC suspension components and accessories, forging the way for future full suspension builds.

SlackBot was made by the club with various students learning the basics of bicycle design and manufacturing. Multiple students had the opportunity to miter, file, and braze the tubes together.

As the majority of club members at the time were mountain bikers, we wanted to get back to the roots of the type of bike that we all enjoyed most. This combined with the show being in Sacramento (close to mountain biking's birth place) we thought that building a clunker would be a great bike to bring to the show. Then club president, Loren Sunding, machined most of the components himself in Cal Poly's machine shops. The frame itself was built out of ChroMo tubing as a tribute to the bikes of yore, and was brazed by Loren.