Pete.M

Cute overload: http://www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/the-cutest-things-that-ever-happened

That is rather nice, I love the double seat tube, it reminds me of a certain Pashley.....which one was that again? Bit late to be releasing a 2012 range though! Better late than never I suppose.

Damn car is covered in tar, and not only did the paint not match very well but the rust is already coming back. Feels like all that bodywork was a waste of time. Next time I'll just whack some hammerite on instead! Added some generic white things on the back for extra chav appeal.

Some sort of alu street frame would be cool to see, a seat would be easier if pro eng would work the way I want it to! The swept blend tool only let's me create same profile sections, whereas I thought the whole point of blend was to enable you to go from one shape of profile to another. I need to watch some more tutorials to see what's possible.

Finally got round to doing some more stuff. There's some dodgy dimensions going on here but lets ignore that! The cranks look a bit fat, mostly because everything else was designed overly thin. I realise that the bb isn't very accurate, and there's too many teeth on the freewheel, but I'm not too bothered about these things. Continuing with the purpley white colour scheme for the time being but I'm not sure what I think about white cranks...

You need some bad joke eel: http://www.buzzfeed.com/fjelstud/the-bestworst-of-bad-joke-eel

Are you sure that's a good idea? What's your thinking behind this? Just curious.

Weird seeing Vincent on a small bike. What's the best website to get the results of the championships?

Saints for free? That doesn't require any thought! ha.

What does POB mean?

Green and polished sounds lush. Thanks for the explanation. Did you first create one little section of tread and then mirror it a number of times around the central axis?

Can't suggest anything better for the colour scheme, very nice. I'd love to know how you created the tread, but if it's hard to explain then no worries! Good luck with the chain, I can't imagine how you'd place a chain in the assembly.

Perhaps the only "jump" down in car insurance these days occurs when you turn 21, knocked a couple hundred off for me anyway. Dan, you are definitely getting ripped off! I can't really think of any way to decrease it though.

Cheers, the stem isn't based on anything in particular, but some of the design ideas came from the one on my bike as well as a hope stem I was looking at on tarty. I should probably get out in the sun, it won't be there for long! Interested to see how you make the tread on the tyres, I can't get my head around that one. Also the cable routing, I think it's possible in Wildfire but it looks hard!

This program is useless at rendering stuff. The bars and forks are intended to be white but when I use the "enhanced realism" tool they totally change, as you can see below. I have given up on the saddle for now, it's causing to many problems. I guess the bb, cranks, and pedals should come next, if I can be bothered.

I'm fairly happy with the bars. I forgot to put in a back sweep angle initially, so I basically just offset the sweep profile more and more towards the ends of the bars, if that makes sense. However, I'm not sure whether that has actually given them any real sweep. They've come out looking pretty similar to yours I'd say.

Sweet! Brakes would be an absolute pain, I've no idea how you'd position the cables.... I've only drawn up some bars since my last post, and currently doing the stem. I tried a saddle but it turned out to be extremely hard to get the shape, I think I'll need to make a very complicated swept blend.

Ah I see, cool stuff. Cheers, a seat does sound like a good idea, I'm not totally sure how much else I'll do. Stem, bars, forks, and headset would keep me occupied for a few days if not more.

After all that time and effort my 24 frame hardly looks any different. Dropouts have come out a bit odd again, and I'm not sure if this design could even be made with steel. I can't be bothered changing everything again though. No brake mounts because lazy. I can only save a picture with shiny paint if it's a screenshot, so I've just taken one of the rear triangle to show the realistic colour. Sunny, are your forks based on a particular model? Just curious. Very nice TR hub there too!

Amazing progress. For the holes in the rims did you make loads of axes and then mirror the extrusion cut like 16 times? I've figured out how to do swept blends so my chainstays are looking fairly realistic now, although I noticed most steel frames have circular tubing, whereas I've gone for a slightly flat sided shape so I'm wondering if that would even be possible when using steel. I haven't finished them though, so haven't tried making dropouts. I think to fix the problem I had before I simply needed to make a new datum. I'll post a pic or two when/if I get this frame looking good.

I think the bolt(s) holding the caliper on the brake mount is/are catching the disc. Edit: Or more likely the washer on the bolt is catching...

I think by doing that I'd have to basically redo the whole sweep for the chainstay, but by the looks of things that's what I'm going to have to do anyway. Cheers for the suggestion. I plan to learn how to do variable geometry sweeps, or whatever they're called. Hopefully this will allow me to create a simpler shape towards the end of chainstays. I desperately hope that fixes it.

I use Wildfire 5.0. Seems very odd that I had no problem adding dropouts to my original chainstays, but I can't add anything to my new chainstays.

Loving your work, pretty jealous of your ability I have to say. I have been trying for days to design the dropouts on my revised steel 24 frame, but the software just wont let me draw anything in that area. It's getting ridiculous. I'm thinking about either starting again or re-doing the chainstays (again) to see if that helps, pretty fed up with it at the moment!