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It is here, and it’s rad.

Thursday, July 8, 2010

The bike I built in Doug Fattic’s class has arrived, and I’m riding it. It is absolutely fantastic. I’ve only got about 40 miles on it, so will write more when I’ve spent some more time in the saddle, but so far I absolutely love it! The picture links to the flickr gallery, and my wife tells me she [...]

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Current Activities, Mostly Waiting.

Saturday, April 24, 2010

So the bike and the stem are off at paint. They have been there since February and hopefully they will return sometime in May. The first bit of the paint process involved a bit of back and forth with my classmate Clifford. Clifford graciously put together the design for the down tube (and for this I’m forever grateful). [...]

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Doug Fattic’s Class: Final Thoughts.

Saturday, March 13, 2010

I’ve been home a few weeks now and more time to reflect on Doug’s class and frame building. In the first post in the series I said I was not sure if I’d build more than one bike. I’ve answered that question with a resounding yes. While at times frustrating and certainly difficult I really enjoyed the [...]

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Doug Fattic’s Class: Classmates blogs

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Clifford kept a blog while we were at class that can be found here. Daniel also kept one but I’m not privy to the location.

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Doug Fattic’s Class: Day 12

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

And we’re done (and I realized I never published this post). I said earlier I wasn’t going to blog today, but we had a good day even if it did run long. Today was all about braze ons, bridges and reaming / tapping things. I didn’t get much of the latter done. I did get [...]

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Doug Fattic’s Class: Day 11

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Today was a good day. I’ve got a complete (ish) bike! The main task of the day was getting the seat stays attached. First I had to cut the slot for my seat post binder and take care of all that, and before that I had to ream the seat tube to take a seat [...]

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Doug Fattic’s class: quick update

Thursday, February 18, 2010

If you take the class make sure to watch the sun set over the shop (preferably in winter). Totally rejuvinating.

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Doug Fattic’s Class: Day 10

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Day 10, already, really? It feels like the pace has been picking up the last few days. I went from a pile of unconnected tubes on Sunday to a almost complete looking bike today. I had two missions today, a binder bolt for my bike, and getting my chain stays installed. Both were a success. [...]

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Doug Fattic’s Class: Day 9

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Today was a pretty good day. I got my main triangle all brazed up, filed my fork so a wheel sits in there correctly, filed and cleaned up one of my fillets. Fillet brazing is fun, and quite a bit easier than silver brazing. I did the first braze on the frame with Doug watching [...]

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Doug Fattic’s Class: Day 8

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Frustrating and slow to backwards progress was the name of the game for two of us today. I brazed up the first part of my bi-laminate lugs. This went pretty well and all seemed good. I started putting the frame together in the fixture and it looked well. I noticed Doug making faces at it [...]

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