A survey of chainstay yokes for plus size tires

[Daniel_Y]

@honu_hardtails

Where are you (or anyone on here) getting your 3D printed yokes? Is it your own design? Where did you have it made? What’s the per unit cost? Seems like it would be prohibitively expensive. I know my way around Solidworks so I could potentially design my own. So many questions!

@terraformbicycles

Daniel still supplies them to me. Maybe when I’m ordering 10+ at a time that’ll change, I don’t know yet. I won’t comment on the price for privacy, and to my knowledge he doesn’t supply them publicly (yet?). But if you were to take the amount of time it takes to make yoke plates + buying the material OR doing the design + paying send cut send to cut them / bend them, the 3d yokes put you on top in terms of time.

I don’t openly sell yokes for a few reasons:

• liability questions
• business reasons (competition with our NMW bikes)
• It’s not what I believe in

I would rather give people the information and tools to design and print their own stuff than make a quick buck off hobbyists.

For hobbyists and smaller builders, I’m happy to print out pipe fittings yokes to help the community along. It’s $1/g which puts CS yokes at roughly $150. The cost, knowledge, and accessibility of metal printing will only get better over the next 5-10 years, so I am trying to lay that groundwork in our community.