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Cycle Frame Building Brazing or Tig Welding - Kent

Craft Courses Limited

Cycle Frame Building Brazing or Tig Welding - Kent

Country/Region China
Categories Electric Bicycle

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Course Provider: Downland Cycles ltd

Contact Name: Julie Jackson

Telephone: 01227 709706

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2 Stone Cottages
Lynsore Bottom
Upper Hardres
Canterbury
Kent
CT4 6EG

Course Length: 6 Days

Price: 1050.00
Prices include VAT

5 star rating, 4 reviewers.

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Stay with us in rural Kent and learn how to build your own cycle frame in beautiful and peaceful surroundings.
Bryan will teach you how to design, mitre, braze and tig weld your own frame to take with you at the end of the course.
You then send to be sprayed and build up at home or return to build with us here. Then all you have to do is ride it away.
What will you build perhaps a racing bike or a tourer, a hub gears, derailleur or bike or electronic. Maybe you want to build a mountain bike or BMX, a Childs bike or Fat Bike. How about a Fixie or a step through town bike, maybe something urban and fun like a Gravel Racer. To be riding your own hand-built bicycle frame is what we promise when you enrol in our course.
No experience is necessary we will teach encourage you and show you how.
Stay with us in our bunkhouse and immerse yourself in the course with home cooked food to sustain you, hit the trails or roads to refresh and then back in for a few hours before sleep. For this extra cost you have all your meals home cooked, locally sourced and home grown. There are local B&B's and Canterbury is just 6 miles away if you prefer your own space.
Our workshops are purpose built in stunning countryside, with a free supply of tea, coffee, biscuits, cake and lunch and 2 springer spaniels begging nicely for the odd crumb!!

What's included in the price?

Course fees include VAT, practice consumables and materials, drinks, biscuits, cakes and lunch. Use of all facilities and parking.
Additional costs are own frame tubing which varies depending on what you decide to build and the tubing you choose (from 200) and accommodation on or off site (from 38 per night).

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A fellow cyclist passed me on my commute to work this week and called out, I like your bike!” Thanks very much, I made it myself,” I called back, bursting with pride. It left me smiling for the rest of the day.
I was persuaded to make my own frame at the 2014 Bespoked frame building show, by Julie, the co-owner of Downland Cycles. My husband had built his own frame with them earlier that year and enjoyed the experience enormously but he was used to working with tools and had been interested in cycling all his life. To be honest I was pretty underwhelmed when he returned home after 11 days away with his unpainted frame.
I had minimal experience with hand tools, cycled a fair bit but knew nothing about bicycle construction and had never considered making my own bike. My light road bike is only suitable for tarmac, so I had been hankering after a bike suitable for everyday use, like shopping but which would also cope with a day on off-road terrain. So, I plucked up the courage to make my own bicycle frame but without truly understanding what this entailed.
Bryan, Julie’s husband, led my course and there was one other participant. Bryan is very patient and experienced and knows when to leave you to find you own way and when to step in to help. The course started by discussing the design of my bicycle. Then I was measured up on a bike-fitting jig and the measurements entered into a bicycle CAD programme and small modifications made to ensure that the design would translate into a finished bicycle that would work safely in real life. We had instruction on the workshop environment, the tools that we were to use and the tubing available to make the frame.
Very quickly I was onto the practical stuff and allocated a workbench to start the fabrication of a miniature practice frame. I was taught the techniques needed to measure, cut, file down and mitre (shape) the ends of the tubes so they fitted snugly together into a mini bicycle frame ready for brazing (a type of welding using brass rod and oxyacetylene welding equipment). Once the tubes were ready, the brazing began. Never

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