Design of a bicycle rig

A design of a bicycle (bike) rig was conducted. This bike rig is designed to be used for aerodynamics measurement testing of bicycles, cyclists and cycling related items in a wind tunnel. This paper discusses the design of a new version of the bike rig that has been used in the MIT Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel. Through finite element analyses, feasibility and practicality studies the best bike rig was designed. A three groove kinematics coupling principle was used in the design of the measurement device of the rig. This paper contains detailed description of the working principle of the bike rig. This paper can also serve as instructions for building a new bike rig.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2010

Author dc:creator

• Racz, Rastislav

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Kim B. Blair and Alexander H. Slocum.

• Mechanical Engineering.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59956

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/59956