Posts Tagged ‘Frame Building Class’

A couple of weeks ago when we wrote about the growing list of American builders making Bakfiets, Dutch style box cargo bikes, we mentioned that the  Center for Appropriate Transportation in Eugene, OR, offers a five month apprenticeship in cargo bike building. They’ve just opened up registration for their next session which starts July 15 and [...]

I’m a big fan of cargo bikes. They add major utility to transportation cycling making the thought of living car-free even more of a reality. You can do a week’s worth of grocery shopping, transport small children or even adults, or pick up a couch. Best of all, you can do all these things while [...]

  Long time readers of the site will remember I took a framebuilding class in December from master framebuilder Doug Fattic. I also positively reviewed the class here.   Well, Doug is teaching some more classes and has had a cancellation for his April class. The only downside is you’ve got to get yourself to [...]

This article is is the final part of a series I’ve been writing about my experience taking a two week bicycle frame building class in December from master framebuilder, Doug Fattic. Two weeks somehow became three and a half months. Back in December, I spent two weeks learning the trade of framebuilding from Doug Fattic [...]

This article is part of a series I’ve been writing about my experience taking a two week bicycle frame building class from master framebuilder, Doug Fattic. Taking a two week intensive frame building class was just that, intense. Spending 8-12 hours a day working on one project in isolation allowed for quick learning, but also [...]

This article is part of a series I’ve been writing about my experience taking a two week bicycle frame building class from master framebuilder, Doug Fattic. Things moved quickly the last few days. After spending a week and a half working on small parts of my frame and learning brazing techniques, my frame parts came [...]

This article is part of a series I am writing about my experience taking a bicycle frame building class from master framebuilder Doug Fattic in Niles, Michigan. I’m beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel on my frame. The last few days have been great with parts of my frame now [...]

Since Doug is a 7th Day Adventist and observes Saturday as the sabbath, we don’t have class today and Doug’s workshop is closed. It’s all fine as having a day to recharge and read up on frame building and frame geometry probably isn’t a bad thing. So far, we’ve learned most of the basic skills [...]

This article is part of a series I’m writing about my experience taking a two week bicycle frame building class from master framebuilder Doug Fattic. Wednesday was an exciting day, our first stab at brazing. Doug warned this would be our toughest day. In my opinion it was not the toughest by far (see my [...]

This article is part of a series I am writing on my experience taking a bicycle frame building class from master framebuilder, Doug Fattic. I think the name of this class should be changed to “There will be blood.” As I type this article with my thumbs on my iPhone, I am nursing not one, [...]