Posts Tagged ‘Michigan’

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, [...]

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 [...]