Subject: RE: Anyone thought of framebuildingAs Autumn noted, i'd love to try building a frame or 2. A friend of mine built a singlespeed for himself this spring, working with a friend of his who builds occasionally.
Here are some of the best sites i've found online.
Frame Forum, a collection of info for framebuilders, good information for frame design, looking at the tradeoffs of design, the effect of different angles, trail, etc.:
http://www.frameforum.net/
Suzy Jackson, who has build a couple of frames on her own:
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Suzy.Jackson/frame/beginning.html
Framebuilders mailing list, lots of great and famous builders participate here, and good info for beginners too (read through the archives and lurk on the list a while ):
http://www.phred.org/mailman/listinfo/framebuilders
For further study, check out some of the photo albums from Richard Sachs, a great framebuilder in Massachusetts:
http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/bobbesrs/
his site: http://www.richardsachs.com/
for pure bike porn's sake, i'll add the following:
http://www.vanillabicycles.com/
http://www.llewellynbikes.com/thegallery/index.php
especially this one:
http://www.llewellynbikes.com/thegallery/album03
lots more builders collected here, for further ideas on frames, stems, etc.
http://bikelugs.com/pacentigallery/index.html |