Sunday, February 14, 2010
Day six (Saturday) was Sabbath for Doug, so the shop was closed until sundown. I took this as an opportunity to go to a movie with one of my classmates. After the shop opened up I went in for some late night filing. This included easy things like the clean up of the edges of [...]
Friday, February 12, 2010
Today was a good day. There were no major screw ups, nothing was caught in an angry Bridgeport and torn up, no one hacksawed the wrong thing, all of our parts showed up (okay so maybe there was one screw up) and most importantly, I had a really good braze on one of my fork [...]
Friday, February 12, 2010
Today was a good day I think. I started out the morning with a few more practice brazes in an old bottom bracket. My brazing is still not as good as I’d like but I do seem to be improving. Doug and I were talking this evening and he said he thinks I’ll have the [...]
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Today is the day the Bridgeport and I became good friends, really good friends. As I said yesterday I’d completed the top tube miter on the head tube end. Today I started working on the top tube to seat tube miter. The formula that I mentioned yesterday was indeed correct. Basically the formula is this: [...]
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Today was the beginning of the real work I think. Two of us are still short parts, I don’t have lugs and a fork crown. Another class member Clifford does not have a bottom bracket and some other stuff. Hopefully my stuff arrives tomorrow, it has been shipped from England last week. Clifford’s appears to [...]
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Today was the first day of my time at Doug Fattic’s two week frame building class. Today was from what I can tell the most uneventful day as far as building, but interesting in terms of the history we learned and some of the things we learned about fitting. I’m a bit of an odd [...]
Just under a week now and I leave for Doug Fattic’s frame building class. I’ve got most of the parts I need for the frame here. The rest are being delivered to Doug’s shop hopefully this week or next. I’m super excited to go and build my first frame. I’ve talked with Doug a few [...]
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Winter has come with a vengeance in Minnesota. Since a week before Christmas most of my cycling has been done either in Washington (holiday trip) or on a trainer. Once the whole family is back together (my wife has been out of the country for awhile) I’ll be commuting on my bike again. It will [...]
Thursday, November 26, 2009
I’m taking a frame building class in February! I’m pretty excited and it should be a good time. I’m taking the class from Doug Fattic. My plan is to build a road go fast / all day rider kind of bike. Something with road angles, and maybe slightly longer than normal chain stays. The bike [...]
Now that I have my Hillborne all built up its time for a new project. I picked up a Trek 720 frame and parts from a guy at work. I’m going to turn this into a camping and kid hauler bike. Maybe an xtracycle some time in the future.