Component
Design

Drill Powered Bike

During my junior year Component Design course, I was a part of one of many teams tasked with designing, fabricating, and testing a drill-powered bike. Using principles we learned in Statics and Structures, and cyclic loading/ fatigue analysis learned in Component Design, my team successfully designed and built a functioning drill tricycle. This class taught me the importance of team roles and communication - a miscommunication in bike fork length almost cost us the design, but we were able to adapt and accommodate the changes in the final design.

Our semester-long component design project was to design and fabricate a drill-powered bike from scratch. In-house fabricated frame as well as design for drill plate. Bike was welded and assembled by us, featuring an unusual but effective chain tensioner. The bike came with throttle control, a one-wheel drive system, and a front brake control lever.