Bikes by vets, for vets and everyone
This is the steel fat tire mountain frame, frame #2. It’s sitting on a picnic table outside UBI, in Ashland, OR. I took the welded steel bike frame class in March, 2021 and learned a ton. I thought I was brilliant, since I had already built a bike frame last Fall and would breeze through … Continue reading The second one is harder than the first
This is the first bike frame I made, a steel mountain frame with a Surly Trekker fork. October, 2020 (yay, pandemic!) Linnea and I went to Ashland, Oregon for two weeks so I could go to the steel bike frame brazing class at United Bicycle Institute (UBI). The SARS-CoV2/COVID pandemic might not have been the … Continue reading The first two are the hardest
My first job was sweeping floors at the Placerville Bike Shop, which closed in August, 2019. Bob Molinari hired me as a youngster to clean up, and gradually taught me the wrenching of bicycles. There must have been dozens of young people who worked with Bob over the four decades he ran that shop. I … Continue reading Why build bike frames by hand?