The whole trike messily stitched together can ya see the reinforcement changes.

"Careful not to cut the wrong one, Jim!"
"What, why? *snip*"
"No! You fool! When cut in the wrong order fiberglass ex-" *KABOOM*
So we decided that plain ol' fiberglass strips just isn't enough overkill for our project. Thus came the idea for interlocking joint-specific shapes. Here we are, painstakingly measuring out specific numbers of each shape from the templates we've designed.
Mmm, glass fiber. I'll be itching this stuff out of my work clothes for weeks to come!
Hey, that's quite the sheet we ended up with! Now it's time to cut, hooray! Oh, that's only half of them? :(
The neatly arranged piles are our finished product, the unruly bunch in the corner are our scraps. The papers discarded vaguely into said bunch are the templates, once we had no more need for them.
..iberglass.
What?
So, we've (probably unnecessarily) covered all of the poles on the frame with fiberglass. Not many of the other bamboo bike builders out there are doing this but hey, it needs to ferry us across the country, right?
Isaac hard at work, unwrapping his present; is it.. it is!! It's Fiberglass, YAAY
So not only did we wrap it all with FG, we then wrapped over top of it with upside-down electrical tape to squeeze out any pesky air bubbles. It seems to have produced a reasonably pleasing aesthetic.
Shiny.. Anyway, now instead of ridiculously strong poles tacked together with crappy hot glue, we have ridiculously strong poles tacked together with crappy hot glue. Yes sir, we sure do know how to prioritize, I tell you what.
Pretty much finished the tacking togetherness. Aligning the back wheel has been a wee bit of a chore, but we muddled through.
Do you like the cantilevered support rod for the pedal housing? We know we do.
It's gaining width! now we could attach the two front wheels if we wanted to.. we just don't want to right this moment... (yeah we don't actually have the front wheels yet, they're still being shipped)