Been following your work in Instagram for a number of years. Some of the smoothest and most consistent fillets in the game. Love your work!
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Hi everyone!
I have been reading and following the work of many of people who post here. I am excited to finally sign up here and engage myself actively.
I live in Berlin, Germany and work as an artist and architect. I would love to some day build a frame for myself or others and just get to do it alongside my job. So far I have built a couple of cargo bikes with friends. From those projects I have learned a lot!
What I am most excited about being here is to learn step by step about the details of fabrication and design processes, others have developed and getting feedback on mine.
Hope you are having a nice day, wherever you are!
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Hi! Iām Hannes (he/him) from Ghent, Belgium.
Iām 24 and studied industrial product design with a minor in engineering, and Iāve been absolutely in love with bicycles for a few years now and love to mess around and customise things to fit my needs/wants so of course I canāt live my life without ever designing and building my very own frames.
Iāve cut bits off of frames, dimpled chainstays, brazed a disc brake tab and a belt coupler and repainted a few frames but Iām nowhere near skilled enough to build a whole frame yet. Iām super excited to have found this forum and Iām seeing tons of super useful information from so many people here. Youāll undoubtedly be seeing many questions from me in the following weeks, months, years. (decades? who knows)
Cheers!
Hannes
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Hi everyone!
I am Burcak (he/him). 46 years old. Owner and framebuilder of one-man-shop; Brelis Cycles in Istanbul/Turkey.
I build in steel, mostly fillet brazed, and lugs once in a while. I have been building since 13 years I guess; which mostly was part-time, but since 3-4 years full-time. Recently Iāve dived into an adventure of building a Frame Jig in parallel, but weāll see how that goesā¦
I ride Road & XC MTB and some light touring. Although nowadays not as often as I did before, I did quite a bit of riding in the past 30+ years.
It is very exciting to see once again an active forum on Framebuilding! Iāll definitely be around 
Here; let me share just a few highlights from my past projectsā¦
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Beautiful work Burcak,
we met and Spike a bit at bespoked. Cool to see your work around here to.
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Thanks a lot 
Hi I am Manjit from India (Ludhiana city). Currently manufacturing Bicycle Parts Like Handle Lugs, Handle Stems, Handle EyeBolts etc. Want start manufacturing really good quality frames & Forks mainly in Lightweight Steel. Hope will gain useful knowledge from experienced frame buildersā¦ Thanks in Advanceā¦
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Welcome Majit! I hope youāll share pictures or stories of things you make.
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Hi all- been lurking for a while but finally ready to come out of my shell. My name is Dustin from Raleigh, North Carolina- been a fabricator/builder most of my life and a full time design engineer, jumping in head-first to the framebuilding world. Ready to prove the old adage right- why would I buy a bike frame when I could make it myself for 3x the cost and half the quality?
Been focused on TIG welding for the last few months as I build my confidence in the lead up to taking a framebuilding course up in Boone NC with Brew Bikes in Feb '25. Canāt wait to figure all this out!
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Really a work of Artā¦ Its so soothing to see the imagesā¦
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Thanks a lot! Really appreciate it
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You already know the game!
Welcome!
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ArborVelo here - decided to tackle the project of building a wooden bike. Have been lurking here for a while, soaking up the good vibes and knowledge. Just kicked off a build log thread which will hopefully inspire me to get busy!
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