Bugatti was not known for being a great engineer. He was an artist and not all his ideas worked. My family has two Bugatti motorcars and some things are just done wrong from a mechanics view -they are beautiful though.
Derek Willburn
Long Beach, CA
> Tim Gunn drew our attention to a real novelty, the
> Multi tubed Bugatti
> Bicycle Frame design
> by Ettore Bugatti. He suggests that there may be
> interest in some
> replicas. He also notes with respect to some earlier
> replicas:
>
> "I beleive stump had to reinforce the frame with
> cross bracing to strengthen
> the frame, which helped, but was not to the original
> design."
>
> With all due respect to Master Designer Bugatti, I
> don't get it. The
> design. I don't understand how an unbraced
> (diagonally among the stick
> bundles) bike frame with 4 times the number of tubes
> (roughly, it may only
> be 3x) and no cross-bracing is going to be better --
> seems to me that it
> will be somewhat heavier, and about 4x more
> expensive to make, with no
> obvious advantages (yeah, the bb may be a bit more
> constrained by the wider
> tube joins, but my understanding is that the
> downtube mostly "sees" torque,
> for which the 4 mini-downtubes don't seem to make
> sense. This is no Alex
> Moulton space frame.
>
> But, my Beloved Spouse, a real engineer, says I just
> don't get (emotional)
> things sometimes, so I guess this Bugatti is about
> some sort of
> viscera... :-) Tastes vary, but I don't think I'll
> stand in this
> particular queue waiting.
>
> harvey "curmudgeon" sachs
> mcLean va
>
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