If you think I'm getting carried away with my fixie project — check this out. This was a recent posting at Fixed Gear Gallery.

Suzy Jackson's Little Fish

Just thought I’d drop in a couple of photos of my new fixed gear bicycle. I caught the bug mid way through last year, by converting an old road bike. I decided that I’d really like to have a purpose built gixed gear frame, and further that it would be extra neat to build it myself. So after a good few months of patiently filing and brazing a collection of Columbus tubes, then another saga painting and decorating it, I can present my new bike.

Not only does she build a silver soldered lugged steel frame, but she even made the decals. Beautiful bike!

Bicycle frame building for the rest of us.

Bicycle frame building has a reputation as being an arcane art; something that's practiced by wizened old Jedi masters, or else carried out by huge, complicated robots in Taiwan, attended by a small army of engineers, technicians, and metallurgists. This isn't so. Frame building is a craft like any other, with simple, consistent rules that mere mortals can master fairly easily. I've been a cycling nut since age four. I've assembled a few bikes from individual components, laced a couple of dozen wheels, and figured that building my own frame was the next logical challenge. Now that it's pretty much done, I thought I'd share my experiences, as there wasn't a raft of information available when I started my research.