FAQ - Prototype Components

Predominately I’ll be sharing the information on bike components I’m designing and making and giving away there designs for free. I’ll also share my knowledge and experience of making these. (Mostly using my Mini Lathe) and hope to inspire people to do the same, while learning from those who know more and teaching those who know less.
To be clear I’m not an expert in anyway on the subjects covered on this website. I’m leaning and sharing that’s all, something’s I will get wrong! (feel free to let me know)

Name: Laurence Fielding
Occupation: R&D Design Engineer – (PET Packaging Design)
Previous Experience: Luxury Furniture Designer Maker, Sheet Metal Electrical Enclosure Design Engineer, Made a couple of bike frames In my spare time.
Education: Industrial Product Design BSC (Coventry University)
Industry Experience: Sketching, Rendering, Photoshop rendering, Project management, Presentations, Furniture making, Solidworks, Large assembly modelling, Production drawings, FEA, Sheet Metal Fabrication, Press brakes, Turret punches, Laser cutting, IP Rated electrical enclosures, BOM’s, CATIA V5, Keyshot, Surface modelling, 3D Photo realistic rendering and animation, Injection Stretch Blow Moulding, Rapid Prototyping, 6S. (Nothing in the cycle industry…)
Hobbies: Riding my bike, Reading about bikes, Thinking about bikes, Talking about bikes, Church, Family, Coffee, Pizza, Beer. Strava: https://www.strava.com/athletes/900989
Biking Bio: I spent much of my teens designing and building trials bike frames, when I should have been doing homework. Back then it wasn’t quite so cool, for context we are talking before Danny MacAskill made ‘Viral‘ YouTube videos and took it main stream (because YouTube didn’t exist!) I remember spending hours down loading ‘Trials Kings‘ videos on dial up and learning HTML so I could have my own website to host my RAD (IMO) videos on. and so I feel like the world has final caught up with my trendsetting…
Now at the ripe old age of 31 with a full time job, wife, mortgage and a kid. time for the above activities is harder to come by but my passion for all things bike has not gone I’m fortunate enough to work as a design engineer, not in the cycle industry but still with access to a lot of similar software and tools.

2018 Trek Slash 9.8 29er [custom spec], Kinesis G2 700c, Inspired Fourplay 24".

Short answer: No.
Long answer: I'm not looking for this site to make a profit, but it does cost me to host and create content for this website. So ideally it would be nice to recover some of these costs though sales of T-shirts, Stickers and though the Amazon affiliate programme.

No i'm not quick enough, or cool enough. But get in contact if you want to give me free gear!

I have designed and made a few frames in the past I will probably do one in the future either a road/gravel or a enduro bike.

Currently I'm sharing all designs on this site under the creative commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA
This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms."
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I have a full time job and a young family so I haven't got loads of spare time (I might get 1or2 out a year)