What is this blog all about? What are the goals of the blog?
Blog tells you the journey of designing and building a track motorcycle by two engineering students, Toni Kosonen and Kimmo Kari, from Finland, Tampere University of Applied Sciences. Motorcycle which is designed to go around track as fast as possible.
We will concentrate, in boundaries of our constantly developing knowledge, to things that will get us forward to this target. To us this project has opened new doors to efficient learning and that is what we try to share with you, readers. Passion is what drives us and gives as a motivation, which pushes our will of power to start action, this is followed by productive learning. Learning is in other way said, fun. Blog will also build our knowledge by forcing us to remember all again all that we have thought and done past year in this project. Comment freely, but rather with reasoning, so we all can learn more.
We will pursue to handle things widely and with detail, this is possible, because in our project goal has set high and that means small detail will affect to result significantly. I don´t think that we will write about, for example, how humidity of the air affects friction of the tires, but how the weight of moving parts of the motor affects to throttle response, that we might write.
The project started last fall (2009) from an idea. I was in our university at CAD course and were using Catia CAD software, then somewhere the idea comes to my head. Idea of designing a motorcycle frame with this program. I slightly incubated the idea and then told to my good friend and classmate Kimmo Kari about it, he didn't knock it down, so we started to think about it and the project, how to do it and what would be the goals of it? Then we went to talk about it to our university and they luckily showed green light to the project.
You can see picture of the motorcycle, year after the idea, below at the Finnish version of this post.
Where we are now? As the picture tells you, bike looks naked, but you could drive it. And so we had, we went to the local go-kart track to test it. Motorcycle did feel agile, steady and fast, and most important it remain intact the whole day. Our expectations were filled and the day was very rewarding after long hard work for the motorcycle. Sadly winter is right at the door, so we are not going to drive it more in this season, but in the next there's going to be a lot of track days, driving and testing, a lot of fun, before that there's going to be lot of work first.
Our sponsors, that had made all this possible, are at the end of the Finnish version of this post, below.
Blog tells you the journey of designing and building a track motorcycle by two engineering students, Toni Kosonen and Kimmo Kari, from Finland, Tampere University of Applied Sciences. Motorcycle which is designed to go around track as fast as possible.
We will concentrate, in boundaries of our constantly developing knowledge, to things that will get us forward to this target. To us this project has opened new doors to efficient learning and that is what we try to share with you, readers. Passion is what drives us and gives as a motivation, which pushes our will of power to start action, this is followed by productive learning. Learning is in other way said, fun. Blog will also build our knowledge by forcing us to remember all again all that we have thought and done past year in this project. Comment freely, but rather with reasoning, so we all can learn more.
We will pursue to handle things widely and with detail, this is possible, because in our project goal has set high and that means small detail will affect to result significantly. I don´t think that we will write about, for example, how humidity of the air affects friction of the tires, but how the weight of moving parts of the motor affects to throttle response, that we might write.
The project started last fall (2009) from an idea. I was in our university at CAD course and were using Catia CAD software, then somewhere the idea comes to my head. Idea of designing a motorcycle frame with this program. I slightly incubated the idea and then told to my good friend and classmate Kimmo Kari about it, he didn't knock it down, so we started to think about it and the project, how to do it and what would be the goals of it? Then we went to talk about it to our university and they luckily showed green light to the project.
You can see picture of the motorcycle, year after the idea, below at the Finnish version of this post.
Where we are now? As the picture tells you, bike looks naked, but you could drive it. And so we had, we went to the local go-kart track to test it. Motorcycle did feel agile, steady and fast, and most important it remain intact the whole day. Our expectations were filled and the day was very rewarding after long hard work for the motorcycle. Sadly winter is right at the door, so we are not going to drive it more in this season, but in the next there's going to be a lot of track days, driving and testing, a lot of fun, before that there's going to be lot of work first.
Our sponsors, that had made all this possible, are at the end of the Finnish version of this post, below.
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