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At any time of any day, there might be 200 bicycles freewheeling around White Plaza on the Stanford University campus, but only one or two were custom-built by the rider in Mechanical Engineering 204: ...

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Get a frame you like, trace its geometry on to a wooden board, and secure it with a jig to hold the parts you want to keep. Saw off the bottom bracket sleeve, headset tube, seat-post tube and dropouts ...

When it comes to bicycles and components, people tend to defend their preferences with what amounts to an almost-religious fervor. But ultimately our opinions about what’s “best” are often just ...

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What if you could learn to build your own custom bike frame from scratch? In 2026, Portland, Oregon, will become home to Firsthand Framebuilding, a first-of-its-kind bicycle framebuilding school that ...