Gusset Ted and Frame Building
Intro In May of both 2017 and 2018 I was awarded two, prestigious, month-long, internships with Jon at Sabrosa Cycles. AKA Sambrosa. The 2017 model was a focused four weeks in which Jon taught me the art of bicycle frame building. We built a 29+ bike out of 4130 and brass, stories were told, waffles were made, cokes were shared, and the spirit was felt by all (Thomas Monson voice). The bike still rips and this is where I learned to love hand-built bicycles. Since the initial internship, I've found myself pursuing additional frame building ventures. Luckily, Jon helped me out with some initial tooling. A friend and I built a frame fixture, and, off I went into the unknown. It took a great deal of time as both of us were in the senior years of our BSME degrees, but we finished Jacks bike in June of 2020. After finishing his steed, I felt a drive to keep producing frames. Fall/Winter 2020 If you've read in this bloggage before, you'll recall fall 2020 was not a good time for ...
