The plan: Build bicycle frames. For joy, for a living, whatever it takes.

The process: Track the myriad complexities on the path to get where I want to go.

The preparation:

• Develop deep & enduring love for bicycles: what they do, how they do it, and what they can be: check.
• Marry a wicked love for getting your hands dirty making things with strong skills in design, classic aesthetics, and creative problem solving: check.
• Learn framebuilding with master builder Doug Fattic: check.
• Put a shop together with new tools, old tools, and tools you dream up on graph paper: check.
• Lose sleep over budget spreadsheets and missed Kijiji deals: check.
• GO!
  

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In the meantime, recount my adventures on the high seas of Niles, Michigan learning framebuilding with Doug Fattic here:

• Intro
• Day 1
• Day 2
• Days 3-4
• Days 5-7
• Day 10
• Wrap-up