Posts Tagged ‘Doug Fattic’

This article is part of a series I’m writing about my experience taking a bicycle framebuilding class with master frame builder, Doug Fattic. I woke up before dawn this morning ready to get started. Since we don’t meet for class until 9 AM and I hadn’t exercised since Thankgiving, I got up and went for [...]

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! [...]

Today, I leave to begin a two week intensive class in building and brazing steel lugged bikes with master frame builder Doug Fattic. I’m heading to Chicago for the day with extended family and will take the train Sunday morning to Niles, Michigan, Doug’s home. I have feelings of excitement, trepidation, and a little melancholy [...]

 Starting this Sunday, I will be taking a two week class in steel frame bicycle building with master framebuilder Doug Fattic in Niles, Michigan. As part of a crazy idea Marcus and I have been throwing around for a while, I’m going to see if I have the vocation for bike building that I hope [...]

Passion. That is the common word I heard from everyone I interviewed at the first Texas Custom Framebuilder’s Show in Fricso this last Saturday. It was obvious from all my discussion that no one gets into custom frame building for the money. It is an often hand to mouth affair that many must hold a [...]

I made it up and back to Frisco (waaaay north Dallas) on Saturday to visit the Texas Custom Framebuilder’s show, the first show of fine makers of hand built bikes in the state of Texas. And I made it there and back without killing my children (always a positive.) Below is a slide show of [...]