I’ve always wrenched on my own bikes. The first serious (non BMX) bike I had was this heavy, non-butted steel beast of a mtb. The thing  probably weighed as much as I did. I disassembled it on a weekly basis. I almost looked forward to something failing on it just so I could fix it. As the years passed and bikes came and went I probably enjoyed fixing them just as much as riding them, and any bike I bought off a shop floor often was immediately stripped and rebuilt in some way, even if I wasn’t swapping parts.

That obsession with tinkering eventually turned into just buying frames and building bikes up the way I wanted. That eventually turned into wanting to build my own frames. I’ve debated whether this is a realistic thing or not, and while that’s debatable, Erica thinks that the more important aspect of this is that it makes me happy. With that in mind I’ve applied to take a class at UBI in frame building. For two weeks I’ll be out in Ashland Oregon training under some well known frame builders and hopefully will walk away with a new skill-set, a new bike frame and a really expensive new addiction. I got my enrollment confirmation the other day and I am pretty stoked. More later…