Category: Frame Build
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A Week Spent with Dave Yates Learning the Skills of Framebuilding – A Complete Bike
A few weeks after receiving my frame back from Dave, and I’ve finally assembled the kit to build it.
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A Week Spent with Dave Yates Learning the Skills of Framebuilding – Frame Painted and Ready to Build
I was very excited to receive a frame sized box from the courier today and couldn’t wait to open it.
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A Week Spent with Dave Yates Learning the Skills of Framebuilding – Day 5
I started every morning by pulling my boots on and going to have a lovely cooked breakfast. The boots didn’t hurt so much now, the Elastoplast on each heel and big toe were doing their job well!
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A Week Spent with Dave Yates Learning the Skills of Framebuilding – Day 4
Bikes are not much good if you can’t attach cables for brakes and gears, it would also be nice to carry a water bottle or two. That means that day 4 was all about ‘braze-ons’ – those little guides that you pass cables through!
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A Week Spent with Dave Yates Learning the Skills of Framebuilding – Day 3
Bicycle forks… how hard can they be to make…
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A Week Spent with Dave Yates Learning the Skills of Framebuilding – Day 2
Day 2 started with a plan, more pictures, sore feet, a huge blister and a tube box still full of tubes yet to be worked on…
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A Week Spent with Dave Yates Learning the Skills of Framebuilding – Day 1
This is a little off topic, I normally keep this blog just for my SBDU Ilkeston bikes. However, I’ve just spent a fascinating week in Coningsby, Lincolnshire, with Dave Yates learning how to build a bike frame.