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Welcome to the second part of our series on our 5 day frame building course. To read Day 1 follow this link. Day 2 is exciting because what starts off as a collection of tubes, lugs and braze-ons suddenly starts to look like a frame! Cutting, mitreing and fitting your tubes on the faceplate is…
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Bicycle Frame Building Courses – Are they worthwile for the budding framebuilder? It is true that you could spend the same amount of money on buying all the equipment and tubing and other paraphernalia required to build your own bicycle frame. It is also true that it is possible to teach yourself to build…
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You may have a lot of preconceived ideas about what we do on our bicycle frame building course. In our consumerist society we are used to “products” being turned out as fast and as cheaply as possible. Frame building however is a craft which has been honed and refined over nearly a hundred years and…
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We read a lot of different websites while we are keeping on top of what is going on in the world of cycling. If your interested in classic bikes and handmade frames, there literally hundreds of websites out there. Here are just a few of our favourites. Vintage Lightweights Vintage Lightweights offer plenty of great…
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Is it really necessary? Why not just force a wheel into the frame? A few mm can’t make much difference can it? As we say in Yorkshire “it’ll be reet”. Well I guess anything can be bodged, corners are easy to cut. As an apprentice I was always taught to either do it right or…
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A lot of the frames we repair & respray are bikes which customers have had a long time and would like to give them a new lease of life. Such is the beauty of a classic steel frame, that same frame can undergo several different facelifts and alterations, or even be taken back to original…
