About admin

I love bicycles. It's probably my dad's fault, really. He owned a bike shop when I was growing up, and took me across country on a tandem when I was 11. I've been a professional bicycle mechanic for 10 years, and the manager of a local shop for 2 years. I decided it was time to take all that experience and go a level deeper; in December 2011 I completed the Steel Brazing frame building class at the United Bicycle Institute in Portland. Then, somehow, a brazing torch and gauges fell into my lap, followed by a TIG welder, oxy-acetylene tanks, spare tubing, brass, and before I really knew what was happening, I had enough supplies to start messing around with frame-building on my own. I'm a new builder. I don't have a lot of fabrication experience, but I do have a lot of help, and I have a LOT of opinions after having worked on bicycles for so many years. I want to make bicycles that--five or ten or fifty years from now--won't make the mechanic working on it curse, throw tools, hate life, or charge extra. I want to make bicycles that fulfill their purpose. To work. To be easy to use. To fit well. To ride well. Forever. Well, for at least as long as the owner is around; it doesn't matter too much after that, does it?