Waiting, waiting, waiting.
Today, I arrived in Niles, MI to start my frame building class with Doug Fattic. Unfortunately, Doug has symptoms of the flu and decided to rest most of the day in hopes of starting the class tomorrow. I’m anxious to get started and see if I can actually do this thing already! Here’s hoping Doug gets better.
I did get a chance to meet my classmates, Andrew and Robert, who both seem like good guys. Andrew is a software developer who is building a treking/touring bike, and Robert is a Marine reservist just back from Iraq (whoa, that’s incredible) who is planning on building a transportation bike like me.
This evening Doug came over to the house we are all staying in to talk a bit. We got to know each other better and talk about custom bike building and the bike industry in general. Doug is seeing a real heightened interest in utility cycling from his students and the cycling industry. Small bike builders are leading this movement much like they did for touring and mountain biking in the past. Doug also confirmed my theory that the big bike makers follow what the custom builders are doing to look for emerging trends. This bodes we for those of us wanting more choices in transportation bicycles.
So hopefully I’ll begin in earnest with my own project in the morning. I’m ready to get to work.
Read the next post in the series, Day 1, Cold and overwhelmed.
on Dec 1st, 2008 at 3:49 am
Have you heard about the petition to get google to add cycle information options to maps & Google Earth…
http://www.petitiononline.com/bikether/petition.html
Let’s get this knowledge on the virtual planet!
Spread the idea if you think it a good one.
on Dec 1st, 2008 at 8:28 am
Looking forward to seeing the frame you build! I’m jealous.
on Dec 22nd, 2008 at 1:45 pm
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