Cycling Weekly’s tech editor, Andy Carr, is more emphatic: "To a wonderful extent they opened up bicycle building for the normal person. It was an overly protected, dark art, that was shrouded in ...

"We can teach you how to design and build a bicycle frame in a week,” Andrew Denham, the founder of The Bicycle Academy, assures me when I sign up for one of his courses. It’s a mouthwatering prospect ...

Some University of Iowa students work on plain metal frames and transform them into colorful and unique bikes every semester. The course, which melds engineering and art, has a long waitlist of ...

Bicycle designer Craig Calfee likes to talk about the time a film crew tried to stress-test one of his bamboo bike frames. Three men—each weighing about 200 pounds—piled onto one of the two-wheelers ...

Bike frames are simple on the surface, but can quickly become complicated if you want to fabricate one yourself. Brazing and welding tend to be less common skills than knowing how to bolt things ...

Today, I have a guest writer in the person of Sammy Sy. Sammy is a human encyclopedia when it comes to retro bikes. Two years ago, I asked him if he could tell us the story about the history of frame ...

Portland’s status as a bicycle building epicenter has taken a few hits since its prime nearly 10 years ago; but it is far from dead. Yesterday, Portland entrepreneur Chris Blandford announced he’s ...

(This is part two and the last part Sammy Sy’s essay about bicycle framebuilding here in Cebu. If you missed the first part, you can search it on the Freeman archive.) He was an avid supporter of ...