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Like you, I’m a cyclist. Over the years, I’ve had a wide variety of cycling experiences, touring, racing, and most recently, randonneuring. In 2007, I was the fourth US finisher at Paris-Brest-Paris, finishing the 762 mile event in 55 hours, 49 minutes and earning me membership in the Societe Charly Miller. I rode a bicycle I’d designed and built specially for that event.

I’m trained and certified as a bicycle frame builder by United Bicycle Institute, and I have been building frames since 1999. I work almost exclusively in steel, either lugged or fillet brazed, and I use a wide variety of steel bicycle tubing, lugs and fittings, sourced worldwide. I have designed and built much of the precision equipment I use to manufacture top quality frames, and I design and build frame components as needed for unusual applications.

I’m also a mechanical engineer, holding a Master’s Degree from Stanford University. Specializing in Product Design, my engineering career focused around new technologies, design and manufacturing, affording me unusual insight into materials, metallurgy, design innovations, manufacturing methods, and metrology – all subjects intensely relevant to designing and manufacturing bicycle frames. I’m a holder of  fourteen US Patents.