How I Built a Steel Bike

If you want to learn how to build a bicycle, The Bicycle Frame Building School in Tucson Arizona is the best bicycle frame making school in North America.

I chose to study with Frame Builder, Dave Bohm because he has a wealth of knowledge on metal working, bicycles, tools, and the bicycle industry at all levels. Plus, this hands-on course offered me the chance to not only learn how to braze metal, miter tubes and design a bicycle frame geometry from scratch, it also let me make my own bicycle fork, which is not common at a in a bicycle frame building course.

I brought my own safety glasses right out of my Opa's old workshop. I like It was special to give them a new project to work on, especially one that my Opa would probably be really proud of.

I also brought my BMC Time Machine Road bike to Tucson so that I could ride this part of Arizona's most renowned cycling routes, including The Loop cycling trail, and Mount Lemmon!


To learn more about the Bicycle Frame Building School in Tucson, and to sign up for a steel bike frame building course, or for their carbon frame building course, visit www.framebuildingschool.com.

Thank you to Robin Villa and Martini Cycles for making this exciting, enriching and eye opening experience possible. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.