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The “vibe” of going through the process of getting a custom bike frame is truly something that merits both a passion for art and craftsmanship plus the desire for riding something that sings on the trails. I have had the luxury of getting a few custom frames built. This video is super cool and I appreciate you taking the time to make it.

Beautiful bikes that stand out and also remind me of my old Typhoon. That's a good thing. There's plenty of art in there. There was a Mixte of sorts that you flashed by with curved twin laterals. That looked good as well. I had never heard of Retrotec, so thanks for bring this to the internet.

Excellent presentation.

16:42 Very youthful looking, for one with 30 years of frame building.

it's refreshing to see such a fantastic informative video yes deffenetly steel is a great material for bike frames

thats why i fell in love with steel, its simple and reliable

Awesome! I am a steel bike fan. I will share your video when someone asks why.

I'm very grateful for this tutorial! I'm stuck at, 21:09 where the chain-stay centerline gets the 11 degree dimension, and then the 2nd arc/angle is given a parallel constraint with the centerline. I can't seen to get fusion to give the degree dimension option when clicking the 2nd arc/angle and hovering over above straight line...it just tries to get me to define a radius for the 2nd arc/angle instead. The parallel constraint is also not an option for the 2nd arc/angle. Maybe this is an update to how fusion works? Anyone got any pointers?

I'd be interested to hear your views on aluminium as a bike frame material. I agree steel is real and I enjoy my vintage steel bikes. Great video, thank you!

Stoked for the video. Amazing to see manufacturing at scale!!🎉

great explanation Daniel, well done!

I want that EDM mitering machine so bad ;-)

I'm wondering which shirt she is wearing? Any brand suggestions?

It's amazing & sad that it's cheaper to subcontract building bike frames in Taiwan & having them shipped over sea for two months rather than made domestically. I believe Jeff Lindsay (mountain goat cycle fame) attempted starting a frame manufacturing hub during the 90's to compete with Taiwan manufacturing only to have it be ultimately unsuccessful.

Is that an EDM process used for cutting the tubing? I haven't seen that used too often, very cool.

Thanks for video, I always enjoy frame geometry discussions because I learn something every time. Way back, mid 1980's, I rode the first mtn bikes when everything was 26" wheels, rigid, and designers tinkered with steeper angles (Salsa). As someone that worked in trades back then with physical work, it didn't take long before hand, wrist, and arm pains started. I stopped mtn biking and stuck with road bikes, and long bike tours. I came back to mtn bikes in 2019, when I wanted to ride the GDMBR touring. I bought a Ti hardtail with Fox 34, a long wheelbase, and massive down-tube. After five years of seeking comfort by trying different stems, bars, tires, and riding half of the GDMBR with arthritis in hands, wrists, neck, I sold that bike. Even with a long wheelbase it was too stiff. I reverted to an old school design with drop-bars, steel frame, 29er mtn bike designed by someone I knew back in the 1980's, he stayed in the bike industry. Immediate comfort with the compliance of a steel frame, and drop-bars, even with a rigid steel fork. My return to racks and small light weight panniers front and rear for off road touring became a full circle realization of common sense. If you're not a racer on the Tour Divide route, and not a big drop jumper mtn biker, steel frames are the best way to go for comfort. And that's for road and off road. Drop bars on a mtn bike you'll go a little slower and more carefully downhill, but make you'll it up on the flats and long open spaces rolling faster and more comfortably. Happy Trails ☮

Very informative and educational video. Steel is real because it is simple and easy to work with!

Mind blown. Can't weld, not an engineer, but damn if this stuff isnt almost as fun as riding when I have to be indoors!! Thanks!

I have a brand new carbon gravel bike with fat tires but when I ride my old columbus steel bike with tiny tires I am as comfortable.

She needs a chiropractic adjustment, definitely. A Gonstead chiro will spot on her issue.

Whit is a cool guy who kicked my ass riding Hole in the Ground on a hardtail fat bike some years back. I love the Clausing lathe you seem to have found to replace that old Southbend you picked up in Richmond. One of my favorites for old iron.

Curtis is a super-cool guy who was kind enough to give me a bit of guidance some years back related to building. Being able to bend tubes like this looks easy enough, but keeping them in one plane can be challenging. The adding a bend in another plane? Then creating the mirror image? Definitely pro-level work that he does very well.

strength easy to weld ecological usually good looking frames good amount of plastic deformation before loss of integrity Not to mention that steel has gotten humanity to where we are because it has excellent properties, is cheap and you can manufacture most of everything out of it

Nerdy detail--but is that a SRAM Transmission UDH on the bike he's riding at the beginning? So retro and modern... nice!

47mm? Come on. 50mm minimum, 55mm that's when i can start taking it serious, 60mm that's capable of beach too.

It's taken one hell of a long time to evolve the off road bicycle design away from that of the roadbike. Confirmation that despite the appeal of often pointless innovations the difficulty of thinking outside of the box and breaking ties with convention!

Thanks for spotlighting Fairing - I'd never heard of them before and it's great to see that somebody is still making tubes for frame builders!

love it - clean and simple, appreciate the video :)

i've watched this a couple of times. your dropout designs remind me of the Breeze-In by Joe Breeze (on my Venturi). they're beautiful

Nice work

Yeah 29x2.3!

Think he is a Lambretta dude

Nice :)

I lean toward the DR30, since I'm a mechanical Shimano kind of guy. Though the extra size of the Artefact UDH looks like it might provide more area for larger chain and seat-stay weldment, since I'm a six-foot-six 260 pound Shimano kind of guy...

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awesome content!!! loving it~~ the true and honest insight of a bike builder talking about his own show bike

Love the look of the frameset, and I still have a Cool Tool kicking around the house!

Just stumbled upon your channel and you’re talking to a builder I’ve been hoping to one day place an order. The Funduro is calling my name every time I see a pic. Going back in time….I used to have a cool tool! Great product. Also, nice to see Skyline trails here. Great place to ride.

what a cool dude. thanks for documenting this!!

Way to almost squeeze some fatphobic shit in there....

Good stuff. Those raw tubes look beautiful.

Is it just me or step files of the UDH hanger disapeared from sram webside? Where can I get them to build a model arund?

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Im new to this. How do you spot whether a bike is steel or not? An aluminium frame or steel frame, at a glance, look the same to me. How could you tell it’s steel without checking the labels? Thanks

I love the head badge and the overall frame is so nice.

A really great video. This is what RUclips was built for.

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I remember the Merlin Newsboy....Another bike based off the SCHWINN curves ....Made of titanium.... I wouldn't have known about RETROTEC with out seeing this RUclips video ... Thanjs

Beautiful

Thanks for the video, appreciate the crank length discussion, I'm 175cm (I'm guessing 5'8?) with a 32" inseam and I experimented 160mm (105 R7000) cranks for 5 years and never once I thought of going back to 170s. At 160 they just feel right. Highly recommend them.