Nice! I’m used to work at American Cyclery. Sorry for the late response. Haven’t been on here in a hot minute.
Hello Everybody! My name is Matt. I’m an aspiring framebuilder in San Francisco.
Back in March I attended Yamaguchi in Rifle, CO and built my first frame (+ fork and stem) - a fillet brazed cross-ish bike. Since then I’ve been kind of obsessively trying to figure out how to do more of this and make it a regular practice. It’s been a challenge, especially living in a small studio in the city, but I’ve finally found a place to work out of and have started amassing tools and building out my space.
I’m mostly interested in building lugged 1" standard road bikes for the time being. Starting with the basics, I suppose! Looking forward to absorbing knowledge and inspiration from the folks on here.
For the time being, would welcome any leads/advice for cheap practice tubing & lugs. I have a nice 531 tubeset ready to go for my first solo project, but would love to get some reps in before diving into that.
Excited to be part of the community!
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Nice looking bike! An easy source of practice tubes is just to cut up old bike frames which are often basically free (but it still feels somehow wrong to be doing that). Don’t know about lugs (I TIG everything myself 
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If you can find any frame builders nearby, If they have been around for a while, they likely have a box of random lugs and parts they’d likely sell for cheap. I don’t know if Ceeway still has practice lugs, but they used to.
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Hello Everyone !
My name’s Vincent and I’m from France ! I’m a product/industrial designer with a highly technical penchant. I’m veeeery crafty and nerdy about all my passions, every piece of equipment or gear that I buy often requires its own Excel benchmark curated over several weeks, if I’m not downright throwing myself into crafting the thing…
37 yo, I’ve been riding since I’m a kid, started with dirt in the woods and still have my good old Commencal Absolut AL1 2008 rolling when I go back to my parent’s.
I’ve been working in product design and mechanical conception for about 14 years now, and in 2020 I met someone at my company with whom I ended up crafting a bike. I’ll present it in another topic to keep this short
Anyway, since then I’ve been thinking, drawing, modeling a lot, and I feel like I’m close to renew the experience (solo probably), and give a try to full carbon !
I hope to find some information around here, and ask questions about things I don’t have knowledge about yet.
See you around !
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Hello fellow enthusiasts!
I’m Tommi Riite and the co-founder of Kovabikes. I’m from Finland and currently only 25 years old. I work as a project engineer at a big company locally but that is perhaps the least interesting thing about my life in my opinion. I got into mountain biking and never looked back after that. E-bikes have been the thing for me and i still really enjoy them.
I have been riding our prototype more or less for 2 years now at bike parks and local trails here and just now realized how great of a product it is. My partner in crime has been the more active participant in social media but i decided to give it a try now.
There is perhaps too much to fit into this small introduction thread, but i am excited to be part of this community.
And for last, I have been mapping out the idea of starting my own company here in Finland with the Kovabikes brand. I’ll be starting a new thread of discussion for that too, let me know if you are interested in collaborating and sharing your thoughts
See you on the trails (and a photo of my whip from last winter)!
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Hi Chris
Thanks fo sharing.
-Thom
hi everyone, Daniel here. My background is in Mechanical and Aerospace engineering and I have a huge passion for anything with wheels and engines/motors. I like thinking outside of the box and experimenting with new developments such as 3D printing and recumbent bikes & trikes. Feel free to reach out if you share the same interests. Cheers
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