Rides
Garda at First Light
The eastern shore before the traffic wakes, when the lake is a sheet and the road belongs to whoever got up.
Workshops
Brazing for the Curious
Two days at a bench, learning to make one joint properly — and understanding exactly how far you are from being able to make a frame.
You will not build a bicycle. You will spend two days trying to get brass to flow evenly into one joint on scrap tubing, you will fail repeatedly, and somewhere in the second afternoon it will work.
Everyone who has done this comes away with the same two things: a lump of steel they are unreasonably proud of, and a permanently altered sense of what the people who do this for a living are actually doing.
What happens
- 01Heat, flux and brass — the theory, briefly.
- 02A full day of practice joints on offcuts.
- 03One joint, done properly, kept.
- 04An evening with the makers who taught you.
A sequence, not a schedule. Times are set once dates are fixed.