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Doug Fattic’s Class: Day 3

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: [...]

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Doug Fattic’s Class: Day 2

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 [...]

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Doug Fattic’s Class: Day 1

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 [...]

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Sackville Saddlesack Large Review

Friday, October 23, 2009

I’ve been running around with a Large Sackille Saddlesack on my Hillborne for about six months now (serial number 41). I’ve got almost no complaints. The Good: Its fricken huge, like cavernous, this bag will eat other bags, and then more. I’ve been able to do our regular grocery run, a weeks worth of food [...]

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