I took a welding class (Welding for Artists, or something like that) at the local community college a few years ago and got to try everything and developed instant respect for the simplest welds in my life. I got to try both gas and electric and gas brazing and plasma cutting, and it's on my list. But teaching school science starting last week, 6 weeks too soon for me -maybe it's time to retire and ride and make bikes and whittle spoons and kuksas...need to gather school supplies...
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Steve <sring...@gmail.com> wrote: > I did this: signed up for a framebuilding class, measured my youngest > son who needed a good road bike, and built a virtual clone of my > Rambouillet. The only change I made > was to increase the fender clearance slightly under the headtube and > the seat stay bridge since my Ram frankly runs at the minimum usable > clearance with 28mm tires. The lugged bike turned > out to be spectacular: it handles, if you can believe this, slightly > better than the Ram (although I suspect that my handling test was > biased due to less weight in the front bag). No matter; he loves the > bike. I spent about twelve Sundays building this and loved every > minute of it. If you can spare the time and cash, do it. > > Steve > Ames, IA > > On Jul 27, 1:25 pm, William <tapebu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Grant is apparently going to teach us how to draw a bike frame in his >> little step by step way. I'm going to follow along. I want a custom >> frame that somewhat resembles a 58cm 650B A. Homer Hilsen. The >> critical differences will be that I want it 130mm spaced and want it >> to be a lighter frameset. I don't know if I'll ever get this frameset >> made, or whether it will be a Rivendell or an Ebisu or a Davidson or >> something else. But I'm looking forward to drawing it. I've done a >> fair amount of drafting table work in Engineering school, but never >> went ahead and drew a bike. Looking forward to it. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > > -- Bill Gibson Tempe, Arizona, USA -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
