@@badsamaritan8223 I think it's both, and he definetly doesn't lack any of this two. Also, as a recently graduated engineer, i really think that for some people there is no need to go to uni to learn the skills or get this type of mindset.
I would disagree, he is an amazing designer and fabricator, but there is a lot more to engineering than just making something. To "engineer" this bike he would have to create requirement and analyze his design against them. Why use aluminum tubing and not steel or titanium? Why did he use 55mm tubing, what about 45mm? 50mm? 60mm? What set the size of the cargo space? Did he asses the common objects that he is likely to carry? How does he know that this design will support their weight? Why choose this wheel base? He said it has a smaller turning radius, but how small should it be? Is there a target? I am not trying to dunk on his design or project, its extremely high quality. I am also not trying to say that he should have assessed the questions above. What I am trying to get across is that engineering is about defining goals, setting requirements that enforce those goals and assessing design decisions against those requirements. Engineering is not about making something, it is about creating the optimal design for your specified design criteria.
Right? So much of the work of assembling and welding something is the time you spend perfecting the clamping setup and the jigs. I've always thought welding was 95% prep work and then the last twentieth bit of time you actually join the metal together.
One tip that I learned from a bike builder when welding my own frame was to spread the heat around the tube when welding. For example, if your first tack is at 12 o'clock, only lay down a bead about 10-15mm long, then move to the 6 o'clock position and lay down the same length bead. The material will tend to distort in the direction of the heat so spreading it out in this way helps "pull" the material more evenly around the weld. Great video! Thanks for sharing!
Fantastic. As a proud builder and regular user of your previous generation cargo bike I’m sure I can recommend the very careful and complete plans even without buying them! Indeed if, like me, someone is enthused by this but lacks a fixture table or milling machine - the original design is a great “learn to weld” project. Thanks for the inspiration Phil.
fireball tools made a great video showing how useful a fixture table is, he sent plans to three different fabrication shops and they were all out of spec, then he had his video editor do it with the fixture table and he nailed it despite not being a welder or machinist
Personally, your welds look beautiful. I have performed welding on aluminum to a very limited extent (it was over 20 years ago). Your points about the 'optimum' settings are correct, in my opinion. Practicing your own technique, or developing one based upon welding fundamentals, is what will serve you in producing consistent, high quality welds. And, being self-taught is one of the best ways to learn from my experience thus far. You have to do it to become better--practice. The design of this version 2.0 bike is really nice. I admire the thought you put into your design and more importantly, your support equipment to make your fabrication easier. Your weld table, the super-jig, tubular blocks and the other tools you made are all ingredients in the recipe for success. Thanks for sharing your idea, thought process, fabrication technique and skills for the inquisitive minds out here in the design/tinker RUclips community. This video was worth the wait. Excellent job!
I really appreciate the welding goggles for the camera. obviously a computer screen can't blind anyone but I do find the welding sometimes too bright and just annoying so I look away. this was great though.
I re-watch your original build vid a few times a year, and one day soon I and going to attempt to build one for myself, I just need to commit :) I would also like to comment that, yes, I would like to see other vids on how you make and use the jigs, it's all excellent info, thanks!
Sir, because of you, I've created my first cargobike out of my garage, with no prior experience in welding or bike build in general..... I thank you for that
awesome build and love your bikes. The flash from welding may not be as bright as it really is in real life but the difference in scene brightness can be straining to people with bad eyes. I personally appreciate you filming through the welding screen. (in his last video, Brian Oltrogge used a reactive welding screen [clear light 2.0] that he printed an adapter to fit to his camera to reduce the sensor blowout) thought it was really nifty.
That is awesome! Really looking forward to Part 2! Also, there is nothing wrong at all with your welds! I've seen many 'professional' welders not lay a bead anywhere near as good as yours.
You make good use of your table. I see so many fabricators too prideful to keep references and rely merely on a tape measure. You do amazing precise work.
I purposefully set pt 1 aside with the intention of watching pt 1 and pt 2 together-so far it was a good decision but I'm not surprised. I haven't been disappointed since I found your channel and began watching. *Well done.*
Thank you RUclips for recommending this video to me. What an amazing project to see. Really enjoyed watching your skills. (And thank you for protecting my eyes from the harmful light levels of my screen during the welding shots 😉)
*Hell:* the constant pain/regret related to a *fully informed accusing conscience* that stems from willfully mocking/rejecting God: Jesus Christ. A common choice re: those headed to an eternity w/o God-those not willing to live a life of obedience by faith b/c it's just too inconvenient to the lifestyles they want to live.
Absolutely outstanding work. I have been a technical person my whole life. The workshop, techniques and sequence are outstanding. Having spent some time as a mechanic, R&D tech at yale designing and building Equipment for experiments i really appreciate what it takes to make all this happen.😀 love the video Bill Compton US NAVY SEABEES 2ND CLASS-CONSTRUCTION MECHANIC
There's only a few channels I can watch nowadays. Channels like Phil Vandelay and My Mechanics. Once you have seen the overkill precision and detailing, it cannot be unseen. You can not enjoy the average videos after these as you used to. Thanks for making these videos and giving us new dreams and goals.
Honestly I'm a danish welder and your welds are nothing to be shy about. But I would suggest a little tip. Like when you have support under the "foot/cargo panel" aka. The only square thing 😂 and this trick can be used on tubes as well. Don't butt up the support all the way to the thing you are welding against. Leave about 1 or 2 cm (deepening on the cup) so you can make a tack weld "almost" under.. (so you get to tack in four places) always try to make contra racks and weld to avoid distortion. Hope it helps you. And what a beautiful video and build! Great work !
Excellent work Phil, as always! I like how you sometimes improvise to just get stuff done... and can't imagine the amount of hours going into recording, editing and making the plans. Well done. The bike looks cool too 😃
insanely beautiful build. love all your fab videos...as a novice they are very inspirational... thank you...so true on tig welding...just practice..i am self taught also...
Watching professionalism in action is always great…but the level of engineering, explanation, & art you combine is inspiring. Thanks for sharing all your effort!
The welding doesn't blind me but it sure is enough to trigger migraines so I always have to close my eyes during the welds. Great video though!! Always love your work!!
Very satisfying to watch, almost as much as actually creating it....Look forward to the next video. Ive never like working with steel but aluminium is the perfect compromise.....
The part where you drill the Holes 37:45 - really makes sense. I never thought about it that far. You definitely want to have even a pin hole for just gas expansion
Am I a welder or fabricator? No, do I ride bicycles often? No. But he’ll it doesn’t matter the whole video captivated me since the first second is so well explained and your voice over is so chill and we’ll explained, thanks for the time you took making it happen, and greetings from colombia
Greetings from Canada. Excellent workmanship and ingenuity. The time taking for setup is always greater! Your sense of humour always leaved me with a chuckle and smile! I look forward to your 2nd vid on the build
Always enjoy watching your builds and appreciate both the workmanship and the thought process behind your solutions to problems. Looking forward to parts 2 and 3!
Your welding video trick is great. I've been around so much workshop welding myself that my eyes slam shut at the first flash (even if it's in a video) so it's interesting to see it your way for once.
For your videos I would like to have the option not only to like it but also to mark it as "valuable content" or so. You are not alone with this but I head this thought especially yesterday while watching it.
Thank you very much for the time you are putting in to all of this. I bought the plans for this e bike, since a full suspension e cargo bike is my dream but the commercial ones cost 10k+ € 🙄 i have the tools but now I just need the time..
Yeah with the prices it's almost worth to put in the time in this case. I did spend a good amount of money on this, but nowhere near what a commercial one costs. Would be interesting to see someone else complete one, as I doubt many will attempt it
Amazing !! I have learned a lot from you been building bikes ever since i saw your first video I actually changed career later and started working in a bike shop ,finally doing something that i really enjoy for living thanks I also posted few vids This lates build is very good however I don’t have access to high end tools but i will buy it anyway so i can try to build that cable steering and upgrade my kickstand for sure Thanks
This dude added just enough motion blur on to the scrolling plan footage that it's impossible to really see anything. 40€ for the plans seems like a fair deal, provided they're perfect.
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This is so sick! Both the explanation and the build! Mega !
This is very entertaining. Thank you for sharing your process. Tho this is beyond diy considering the tools you have. Your design is very much refined compared to your previous ones. Cheers.
On the light being blinding, it is in a way blinding for me as I tend to watch videos in dark environments and my PC lives in dark mode so when the arc is struck and the full spectrum of light is blasted out, it makes my screen go from zero to hero real fast and with my eyes adjusted to essentially a twilight to daylight. With the green filter, it makes it so that we can actually see the arc, the bead, and the progress of the weld which is to me far more interesting. That little quibble aside, that is a fantastic bike design and looks like a helluva project and when it's done right... *chef kiss* Ooh it looks so good...
Yeah I understand the point about screens in the dark but believe it or not, I've actually had numerous people who believed they were getting "Arc-Eye" from looking at the welding on screen
It's incredibly satisfying to watch it all come together, and inspiring on a personal level as well. I'll be looking out for the next one for sure. Thank you for sharing the build!
Nice table. I would imagine a strong and precise jig makes the finished product higher quality. Your design is so cool I think it could be marketed. I’d buy one and wish I had the capability to make one.
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You may not have an engineering degree but you are definitely an engineer.
Great work.
dang i have the degree, but i dont have the skills, nor the patience to build something like this, he's a great engineer!
Yes, when Phil said ‘I am not an engineer’ I thought, well you certainly have the mind and skill of one!
Engineering is a mindset, not a skillset.
@@badsamaritan8223 I think it's both, and he definetly doesn't lack any of this two. Also, as a recently graduated engineer, i really think that for some people there is no need to go to uni to learn the skills or get this type of mindset.
I would disagree, he is an amazing designer and fabricator, but there is a lot more to engineering than just making something. To "engineer" this bike he would have to create requirement and analyze his design against them.
Why use aluminum tubing and not steel or titanium?
Why did he use 55mm tubing, what about 45mm? 50mm? 60mm?
What set the size of the cargo space? Did he asses the common objects that he is likely to carry? How does he know that this design will support their weight?
Why choose this wheel base? He said it has a smaller turning radius, but how small should it be? Is there a target?
I am not trying to dunk on his design or project, its extremely high quality. I am also not trying to say that he should have assessed the questions above. What I am trying to get across is that engineering is about defining goals, setting requirements that enforce those goals and assessing design decisions against those requirements. Engineering is not about making something, it is about creating the optimal design for your specified design criteria.
You are the undisputed best.
This is amazing! Brilliant work! I’m sure that documenting this build doubled or tripled the time and effort it took to complete. Thanks for sharing.
The engineering of the fixtures and using the table as a frame jig is the most impressive to me.
Right? So much of the work of assembling and welding something is the time you spend perfecting the clamping setup and the jigs. I've always thought welding was 95% prep work and then the last twentieth bit of time you actually join the metal together.
One tip that I learned from a bike builder when welding my own frame was to spread the heat around the tube when welding. For example, if your first tack is at 12 o'clock, only lay down a bead about 10-15mm long, then move to the 6 o'clock position and lay down the same length bead. The material will tend to distort in the direction of the heat so spreading it out in this way helps "pull" the material more evenly around the weld. Great video! Thanks for sharing!
Yeah this helps a lot, I do it whenever possible
Fantastic. As a proud builder and regular user of your previous generation cargo bike I’m sure I can recommend the very careful and complete plans even without buying them! Indeed if, like me, someone is enthused by this but lacks a fixture table or milling machine - the original design is a great “learn to weld” project. Thanks for the inspiration Phil.
I feel like I'm in high school looking at all your equipment and I've been a mechanic for 20 years. You're an inspiration.
fireball tools made a great video showing how useful a fixture table is, he sent plans to three different fabrication shops and they were all out of spec, then he had his video editor do it with the fixture table and he nailed it despite not being a welder or machinist
Definitely, the table is one of the best tools I ever bought
That table and the kit youve made for it all is mindblowing. Fantastic craftmanship
Nevermind the bike. That workshop and that space.... and the jigs and tools... amazing work!
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Personally, your welds look beautiful. I have performed welding on aluminum to a very limited extent (it was over 20 years ago). Your points about the 'optimum' settings are correct, in my opinion. Practicing your own technique, or developing one based upon welding fundamentals, is what will serve you in producing consistent, high quality welds. And, being self-taught is one of the best ways to learn from my experience thus far. You have to do it to become better--practice. The design of this version 2.0 bike is really nice. I admire the thought you put into your design and more importantly, your support equipment to make your fabrication easier. Your weld table, the super-jig, tubular blocks and the other tools you made are all ingredients in the recipe for success. Thanks for sharing your idea, thought process, fabrication technique and skills for the inquisitive minds out here in the design/tinker RUclips community. This video was worth the wait. Excellent job!
Thanks for the elaborate comment!
That’s legit some of the best welding videography I’ve ever seen. Really close in and I can see what you’re doing clearly
I have been self declared a super fan of your design. I find it so smart, elegant, light, logic... congratulations, really.
I have adopted my (orphaned) 12 yo grandson and your channel is perfect for his desire to build things.
I really appreciate the welding goggles for the camera. obviously a computer screen can't blind anyone but I do find the welding sometimes too bright and just annoying so I look away. this was great though.
I re-watch your original build vid a few times a year, and one day soon I and going to attempt to build one for myself, I just need to commit :) I would also like to comment that, yes, I would like to see other vids on how you make and use the jigs, it's all excellent info, thanks!
That's by far the best and most professional DIY cargo bike builds.
A damn good job!
Makes my and all the other builds here on YT look like crap.
Amazing precision engineering🤯🍻
Sir, because of you, I've created my first cargobike out of my garage, with no prior experience in welding or bike build in general..... I thank you for that
awesome build and love your bikes.
The flash from welding may not be as bright as it really is in real life but the difference in scene brightness can be straining to people with bad eyes.
I personally appreciate you filming through the welding screen. (in his last video, Brian Oltrogge used a reactive welding screen [clear light 2.0] that he printed an adapter to fit to his camera to reduce the sensor blowout) thought it was really nifty.
Hi, thanks for the detailed videos. A video discussing the considerations for the donor bike would be greatly be appreciated, thanks!
That is awesome! Really looking forward to Part 2!
Also, there is nothing wrong at all with your welds! I've seen many 'professional' welders not lay a bead anywhere near as good as yours.
You make good use of your table. I see so many fabricators too prideful to keep references and rely merely on a tape measure. You do amazing precise work.
The whole project is great, but that jig table and setup is beautiful!
I purposefully set pt 1 aside with the intention of watching pt 1 and pt 2 together-so far it was a good decision
but I'm not surprised. I haven't been disappointed since I found your channel and began watching. *Well done.*
Thank you RUclips for recommending this video to me. What an amazing project to see. Really enjoyed watching your skills. (And thank you for protecting my eyes from the harmful light levels of my screen during the welding shots 😉)
amazing creation!
Definitely didn’t expect to see you here 😄
CHRIST ON A BIKE!!
*Hell:* the constant pain/regret related to a *fully informed accusing conscience* that stems from willfully mocking/rejecting God: Jesus Christ. A common choice re: those headed to an eternity w/o God-those not willing to live a life of obedience by faith b/c it's just too inconvenient to the lifestyles they want to live.
Ah, that is a beautiful thing to watch. I hope it brings you great pleasure - it did for me! Looking forward to the next videos, thank you.
I'm blown away--amazing! I ride a Surly long tail cargo bike and this is next level x 10!
Always amazed by how much from project to project you improve your skillset. Great job as usual Phil. Liebe Grüße aus Berlin
I watch many welding/building videos on YT, but your idea with the filter is great, now I can see what you are really doing.
A well deserved like, for an amazing job. This video shows how useful are fixture tables.
Best video on custom bike making that i have ever seen. Wonderful work. Thank you for posting.
Absolutely outstanding work.
I have been a technical person my whole life.
The workshop, techniques and sequence are outstanding.
Having spent some time as a mechanic, R&D tech at yale designing and building Equipment for experiments i really appreciate what it takes to make all this happen.😀
love the video
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2ND CLASS-CONSTRUCTION MECHANIC
There's only a few channels I can watch nowadays. Channels like Phil Vandelay and My Mechanics. Once you have seen the overkill precision and detailing, it cannot be unseen. You can not enjoy the average videos after these as you used to.
Thanks for making these videos and giving us new dreams and goals.
Really liked the up close filtered view of the welding. Never seen that before. Thanks.
Chopping up perfectly good bikes to make a perfectly great bike
Honestly I'm a danish welder and your welds are nothing to be shy about. But I would suggest a little tip. Like when you have support under the "foot/cargo panel" aka. The only square thing 😂 and this trick can be used on tubes as well. Don't butt up the support all the way to the thing you are welding against. Leave about 1 or 2 cm (deepening on the cup) so you can make a tack weld "almost" under.. (so you get to tack in four places) always try to make contra racks and weld to avoid distortion. Hope it helps you. And what a beautiful video and build! Great work !
Better than Netflix, thank's Phil!!
Beautiful precision and organisation. Excellent work.
Excellent work Phil, as always! I like how you sometimes improvise to just get stuff done... and can't imagine the amount of hours going into recording, editing and making the plans. Well done. The bike looks cool too 😃
Never seen this kind of precise work. Good job. Thanks
Fantastic, really nice capture of the whole process!
40:30 -that was the most beautiful 15 seconds of machinery. It felt like a samurai film.
Absolutely fantastic! Your progress from your humble beginnings with a flux core on your kitchen table is phenomenal!
It's amazing that you have all this equipment. I'm so jealous.
insanely beautiful build. love all your fab videos...as a novice they are very inspirational... thank you...so true on tig welding...just practice..i am self taught also...
Watching professionalism in action is always great…but the level of engineering, explanation, & art you combine is inspiring. Thanks for sharing all your effort!
Now to transfer this idea to an electric endro motorcycle, this is road ready. Awesome build, keep it up! Wax on, wax off!
I like the "green" filter for the welding shots. Thanks!
The welding doesn't blind me but it sure is enough to trigger migraines so I always have to close my eyes during the welds. Great video though!! Always love your work!!
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Great video, reminds me of watching my grandfather build dental equipment in his workshop with his lathe and self made tools. Very satisfying.
I love your thought processes and engineering solutions
Amazing! I love how you included everything in one video.
Not quite, there's another one coming ;)
This is really fabulous work - very much looking forward to your next videos!
Beautiful metal work, and the photography is second to none 👌
Nice work👌 really enjoy your videos. Calm, informative and gute deutsche Handarbeit 😄
Very satisfying to watch, almost as much as actually creating it....Look forward to the next video. Ive never like working with steel but aluminium is the perfect compromise.....
The part where you drill the Holes 37:45 - really makes sense. I never thought about it that far. You definitely want to have even a pin hole for just gas expansion
Besides getting blinded, i’m feeling cold because of the weather also. Great project non-the-less.
The filtered welding shots were excellent. Good thinking, and well done.
I really like the welding filter you use for the camera, really lets you get a good look at the weld puddle.
That fixture table is a beautiful thing. Waltzing the the tig .
Your welding footage is genuinely amazing I've never seen anything like it.
Agreed, I forgot to mention that in my comment.... Plus in most posts about welding, you can't even see what's going on....
You're a class act, Phil. thanks for this, it was a really enjoyable watch.
I was literally thinking yesterday when you were going to drop another video.
Just finished watching the video. F**** awesome!!!!
This is so nice. Thank you for the time spend!
Superb Phil. Absolutely superb.
I love the cable steering.
Am I a welder or fabricator? No, do I ride bicycles often? No. But he’ll it doesn’t matter the whole video captivated me since the first second is so well explained and your voice over is so chill and we’ll explained, thanks for the time you took making it happen, and greetings from colombia
Greetings from Canada. Excellent workmanship and ingenuity. The time taking for setup is always greater! Your sense of humour always leaved me with a chuckle and smile! I look forward to your 2nd vid on the build
The filter over the camera for the welding shots was a stroke of genius
Always enjoy watching your builds and appreciate both the workmanship and the thought process behind your solutions to problems. Looking forward to parts 2 and 3!
Your welding video trick is great. I've been around so much workshop welding myself that my eyes slam shut at the first flash (even if it's in a video) so it's interesting to see it your way for once.
Absolutely love this. So envious of that bike.
For your videos I would like to have the option not only to like it but also to mark it as "valuable content" or so. You are not alone with this but I head this thought especially yesterday while watching it.
Thank you very much for the time you are putting in to all of this. I bought the plans for this e bike, since a full suspension e cargo bike is my dream but the commercial ones cost 10k+ € 🙄 i have the tools but now I just need the time..
Yeah with the prices it's almost worth to put in the time in this case. I did spend a good amount of money on this, but nowhere near what a commercial one costs. Would be interesting to see someone else complete one, as I doubt many will attempt it
Dang! What a kick-ass tailor-made bike! Something quite unique and very pretty. Awesome effort expended in making and documenting it all as well.
Hello brother
I finished my belt grinder build
Have been waiting for your new video
Very nice to see you
Amazing !! I have learned a lot from you been building bikes ever since i saw your first video I actually changed career later and started working in a bike shop ,finally doing something that i really enjoy for living thanks
I also posted few vids
This lates build is very good however I don’t have access to high end tools but i will buy it anyway so i can try to build that cable steering and upgrade my kickstand for sure
Thanks
Never saw so great job before! Thanks a lot.
So good! Love your humour splashed in throughout as well. :)
3:45 Did you buy it? Yes. Is it yours? Yes. So does anyone else have any say on what you do with your property? Nope! F the haters. You do you.
This is so insanely cool 😭 absolute dream bike! Beautiful craftsmanship, man!
This dude added just enough motion blur on to the scrolling plan footage that it's impossible to really see anything. 40€ for the plans seems like a fair deal, provided they're perfect.
This is so sick! Both the explanation and the build! Mega !
This is very entertaining. Thank you for sharing your process. Tho this is beyond diy considering the tools you have. Your design is very much refined compared to your previous ones. Cheers.
YOU ARE CRAZY! I love you work!
On the light being blinding, it is in a way blinding for me as I tend to watch videos in dark environments and my PC lives in dark mode so when the arc is struck and the full spectrum of light is blasted out, it makes my screen go from zero to hero real fast and with my eyes adjusted to essentially a twilight to daylight. With the green filter, it makes it so that we can actually see the arc, the bead, and the progress of the weld which is to me far more interesting.
That little quibble aside, that is a fantastic bike design and looks like a helluva project and when it's done right... *chef kiss* Ooh it looks so good...
Yeah I understand the point about screens in the dark but believe it or not, I've actually had numerous people who believed they were getting "Arc-Eye" from looking at the welding on screen
cannot be more impressed. awesome!
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Awesome 😍😊
It's incredibly satisfying to watch it all come together, and inspiring on a personal level as well. I'll be looking out for the next one for sure. Thank you for sharing the build!
Really appreciate the welding filter 😌
Holy cow, that's what I have been waiting for.
Nice table. I would imagine a strong and precise jig makes the finished product higher quality. Your design is so cool I think it could be marketed. I’d buy one and wish I had the capability to make one.
12 more hours please and thank you.
Am I going to build one of these? No. Am I looking forward to the remaining videos anyway? You bet I am!
This looks incredibly sick. I've been looking forward to this ever since you teased it on instagram. Incredible job!