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Jan Workshop Shapes a new Wooden Bike with Stunning Continuous Beam Frame

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Joining the ranks of bike builders who have turned to natural materials for bike frame and component construction, Prague-based studio Jan (named for partners Jan Muscka and Jan Vidlicka), construct frames out of wood. Taking a new approach to the material, Jan constructs an “avocado” shaped continuous beam, utilizing over forty laminated layers of veneer, then carves the frame characteristics and interfaces from that platform. The final product is both visually unique, durable, and, as they boast, naturally beneficial in enhancing ride characteristics. Several prototypes in, the studio is now accepting outside orders.

Check out this unique Czech design after the jump.

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When Mucska started his workshop, he sought out wood as a medium both because he felt the material most reflected his identity and for the highly-involved craft aspect of it. Though time intense (it took eight months to complete the first two prototypes of his design), the unique frame design will only be slightly changed moving forward to support different sizes and riding scenarios. “I don’t intend to bring to the market another mass produced bicycle, notes Mucska. “I mainly want to create and transcend the limits, both technological and of common ideas and trends.”

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The “rear triangle” features bolt-on plates for disc brake tabs and dropouts. The bottom-bracket interface, seat tube, and head tube are both metal tubes bonded into the laminate chassis. The frame’s large downtube is designed to provide stiffness and strength to the design while the thin top tube provides a spring effect, dampening vibrations from the road.

jan wood bike frame

The frame includes many subtle crafted interfaces, such as reinforced areas at the top tube/seat tube junction and wooden housing guides throughout the frame.

jan wood bike cable guide

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Frippolini
Frippolini
8 years ago

Wow. That is the prettiest frame that I’ve seen in a long time!
Having some experience of working with wood, I have a small idea of the amount of work put behind this frame. Absolutely beautiful! Very stylish, elegant, wow! 🙂

Craig
Craig
8 years ago

Really impressive workmanship

Bevis
Bevis
8 years ago

Pretty cool!

Nate
Nate
8 years ago

Best looking wooden bike I’ve seen — much more attractive than Renovo.

jose gregorio ramirez
jose gregorio ramirez
8 years ago

la bici de madera mas hermoza q e visto , un super trabajo

Andy
Andy
8 years ago

Finally a wood bike that doesn’t like pieces of reclaimed 70s armchairs!

JBikes
JBikes
8 years ago

I want mine carved from a single piece of wood. Heavy on the lacquer.

Chris
Chris
8 years ago

Two words: stress raiser. I’d expect a large increase in depth to offset the reduction in width where the head tube pierces the top and down tubes, otherwise the stress will be (by eye estimate) three times higher in those regions.

Brian
Brian
8 years ago

I’m normally a little cynical about wooden bikes, but this is a beautiful example!

Steve
Steve
8 years ago

looks beautiful and all but i wooden ride it.

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