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Fat & Skinny Tire Fest, May 15 – 17
Sojourner Cyclery will be exhibitors at the Fat & Skinny Tire Fest in beautiful Winona Lake Village, IN this weekend. Come join the fun and check out our custom wooden frame bikes.
An article from Bike Rumor.com
Award winning cyclocross bicycle
Wooden Electric Bicycle
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I partnered with the Jim Turner, the president of OptiBike (http://optibike.com/) to make an electric wooden bicycle. E-bikes are the wave of the future in sustainable transportation. What a great marriage, sustainable transportation framed by the most sustainable frame building material known to man – wood. More sustainable than bamboo (grass) because of all the carbon […]
Columbus Dispatch article 3/23/15
Ride for Life, The University of Dayton to Notre Dame
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Thanks Bicycling Magazine!
Cross-country on a wooden tandem
5/20/13 by Jay
I felt the tightness in my chest increase as I drove the length of Alabama realizing how long and hilly the state is, and reflecting on the knowledge that we have to pedal all this distance that I drove that took so long even by car. We’re selling our faithful old mini-van, Tina-the- Continue reading
The Great Divide Ride on wooden 29er
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Loaded, wooden 29er, ready for six days on the Continental Divide ride in Wyoming. We will be riding a segment that is void of civilization so I have to carry every morsel of “bicycle fuel” on my bike. Gear and food weighs 55 pounds! Ugh! The route is dirt & gravel with elevations that will […]
Artistry in Wood 2012
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I entered my tandem bicycle in “Artistry in Wood” the largest wood-crafting show in the country. It earned three ribbons: first place in category, first place in class and second “best of show
Why Wood
Why build a bicycle frame out of wood? That is probably the number one question I get from people who see my wooden framed bicycles. The answer is multifaceted, ranging from simple to quite complex. The very first bicycles were made of wood. If you have the opportunity to visit the Bicycle Museum of America […]
2013, Midwest Tandem Ralley and the 45th annual Hilly Hundred
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The ever perfect Courtney Johnson, heir apparent to precision tandems, wrote a marvelous account of the MTR. I was honored to be photographed in her blog as “these guys have a bike made of wood”. Here is the link to Courtney’s blog: http://www.precisiontandems.com/mtr2013/mtr2013.htm . Courtney and Natalie reminded us so much of our daughters, Ella and Sarah as […]
Gary Fisher gives his thumb-up
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Gary Fisher, the father of the mountain bike, endorsed my wooden framed bicycles at the Adventure Submit Expo
GOBA 24 – Great Ohio Bicycle Adventure
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Crafting a bike: A video story
This is the creation of a first generation frame. A lot has changed in terms of process and materials. I’ve learned a lot since this story was produced. Special thanks to the creator of this video story, Scott Huck
Slideshow: A wooden bike life
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Wooden Bicycle Fleet in Germany
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These are the bikes my family and I rode in Europe last summer. They fold-up and fit in a “check-on-able” size suitcase. The bike in the center is a tandem that I rode with my eight-year-old son. He sits in the front for an unobstructed view and I steer from the rear. The tandem packs […]
Artistry in Wood 2011
2011 Artistry in Wood: Best of Category, Best of Class, Best of Show
Wooden Bicycle Frames: Ride-able Art
Sojourner Cyclery Man-made Fiber Reinforced Polymers (FRPs, example: carbon fiber) is the latest craze in bicycle frame material. Wood is the original, God-made FRP. My bicycle frames are hollow and incredibly lightweight. Additional benefits of a wooden frame are that they are “green”, tough, smooth to ride, and beautiful. My walnut bicycles have won top honors in the Artistry in Wood show.http://daytoncarvers.com/competition12.html http://daytoncarvers.com/competition11.html Wooden bicycles combine many of my passions: woodworking, cycling and engineering. I am a lifetime cyclist. My first job was working in a bicycle shop when I was fourteen-years old. I started building fillet-brazed and lugged, steel frames in the late 1970’s. With a Master’s Degree in Biomedical Engineering and specialty in lower extremity prosthetics, I developed expertise in the use of composites and materials testing. My day job is teaching topics in mechanical and biomedical engineering at Cedarville University http://www.cedarville.edu/. I have access to state-of-the-art testing equipment which I employ to test my frames and frame components. My students are engaged in analyzing, building and testing wooden bicycle frames as their cap-stone senior design experience. I have four years of personal field-testing on my frames including a cross-country, self-supported tour on a wooden tandem with my son. My goal is to share the joy of building and riding wooden framed bicycles. I will be sharing resources, blogs and instruction on this website.
Interested in purchasing a custom, hand-made wooden bicycle?
Custom single frame $3,900 plus components of your choice. Custom tandem frame $7,900 plus components of your choice.
Thanks for visiting my site.
Jay Kinsinger MSBME
Email: kinsinger@cedarville.edu
Phone number: 937-823-1834
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