This is a notice for those CR members that may have sometime wanted to make their own frame. I have a new website that explains my framebuilding classes. Check it out at <www.ukrainebicycletours.com>. This address will take you to our Ukraine bicycle ride website (this year will be our 7th trip). The link to my framebuilding class is at the bottom of the home page. It's done in Flash (not html) so it will take a few seconds to download. The cartoon on the home page (a bike rider with a sore butt) was taken from an actual welcome sign waiting for us when our bike ride group arrived at the city limits of Poltava - a large city east of Kiev. If you can't read the Russian under the English Welcome, it says "Please come in". While you're on the way to the framebuilding class site, don't hesitate to look over our tour information as well. We could use a couple more riders for our July 5 - 18 trip this year.
The next class will start October 16. I assume that no one has any prior brazing experience. It is a challenge but that just makes the reward of making your own frame to your exact specifications greater. Feel free to contact me for more information. I taught my first framebuilding class in 1976 and have had about 100 students since then.
Doug Fattic
Niles, Michigan