Learn how to make bicycle frames, keep the skills and give your first frame to someone who really needs it.
Duration and Format
We teach this course either 1:1 or 2:1, full time over 5 days, Monday - Friday.
Syllabus
The course has been designed to give you a great foundation of skills and understanding so that you can go on and build more bicycle frames. This isn’t just a frame-building experience, we’re not going to build a frame or forks for you, we’ll teach you how while you build bothe from start to finish.
- Oxy-Fuel Gas Safety
- Fillet Brazing Masterclass
- Bicycle Frame & Fork Design
- BikeCAD
- Tube Selection
- Butted Tube Identification
- Metal Working Basics
- Tube Mitring
- Tube bending
- Jig Principles
- Frame & Fork Assembly
- Tacking
- Fillet Brazing
- Frame & Fork Alignment
- Cold Setting
- Frame and Fork Finishing
The Frame
So what about the frame that you build on the course? Well we give that to charity.
The bicycle frame you will make is based upon the World Bicycle Relief ‘Buffalo Bike’. The Buffalo Bike is a robust bicycle engineered specifically for rural African terrain and load requirements – such as having to carry over 100kg on the rear rack. We have decided to use this as a basis for our frame, as over 100,000 of these bicycles have been successfully distributed across Africa to date making it the standard. We have modified some of the details of the design to make the frame easier to make, but essentially it remains identical in terms of size, geometry and all component interfaces.
Once made and painted, your frame will be assembled with World Bicycle Relief components in Africa, before being donated to someone in need. We cover the material cost of building and painting the frame, and will be looking to raise money to fund the shipping and build of each bike shortly.
Workshop Hire
One of the many benefits of taking a course with us is that once you have graduated you can hire the use of one of our frame-building benches to work on your own frame building projects. We keep costs down and only charge for the time you spend in the workshop and any materials you use.
Price
£1000 (2:1)
