If you’re in the UK, and you want to learn how to build a bike frame, The Bicycle Academy is quickly becoming one of the premier destinations. Offering classes from beginning to advanced, and braze to TIG, it’s a perfect gateway to one of their other creations – the Hack Bike Derby. Now, The Bicycle Academy has a new project. Called Old Skool x New School, the idea is to combine frame building instruction and the chance to interact with one of the legends of bike building. Their first event featured none other than Tom Ritchey who stopped into the Bicycle Academy to lend some brazing tips, and even build a special Ritchey frame that they took to the trails the very next day…
