Bike Frame Building
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2018
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Rich Bernoulli, a bike frame building instructor at the United Bicycle Institute (UBI) in Portland, Oregon, fills us in on how bike frames are fabricated. We discuss materials selection, welding techniques, and how professional bike builders hone their skills. Get more information about the frame building classes offered at UBI.
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| 0:20.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. My name is Jeff and today my guest is Rich Bernoulli. |
| 0:27.1 | Mountain bike frame building is both an art and a science. To many mountain bikers, it's a bit of a mystery as the how frames come together. |
| 0:35.7 | So today we've asked Rich, who's an expert on frame building, |
| 0:39.0 | to shed some light on how bike frames are designed and built. Rich has been teaching frame |
| 0:44.5 | building at the United Bicycle Institute for nine years, and he joins us today to shed some |
| 0:49.7 | light on the subject. Thanks for joining us, Rich. Yeah, thanks for having me. So tell us a little bit about |
| 0:54.9 | your background and what exactly you do at the United Bicycle Institute. Sure. So I've been |
| 1:01.0 | into bikes pretty much my whole life. I've got three older brothers that they were all into it. |
| 1:05.9 | And, you know, the youngest always wants to be like the older. So I got into it pretty aggressively when I was a kid. |
| 1:12.1 | And it's always been a part of my life. |
| 1:14.2 | I've gone through bike shops. |
| 1:16.1 | And I worked for Yeti cycles for two stints. |
| 1:19.9 | And I worked with James at Black Sheep for a lot of years in some capacity or another. |
| 1:26.4 | And then moved here to Oregon in 2008 or nine and I've |
| 1:33.4 | been at UBI ever since. And what I do here at UBI is I teach primarily the frame building |
| 1:40.1 | side of things. I'm the director or manager or something like that on that side of the |
| 1:45.4 | building. And then I teach the mechanic side whenever they need help, somebody's on vacation or |
| 1:50.5 | something like that. So that's what I do. Yeah, that's cool. So how did you learn to build frames? |
| 1:56.0 | How did you first get into that yourself? So yeah, when I was at Yeti, um i'd peek over you know around the curtain and watch |
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