The person you see in photo 1, 2, and 4 is Hamilton Trimm. Ham and I worked on this project together. It was very clutch that he had a certain amount of welding experience (he said he’d only tried it once, but that was more than me).
The process is pretty straight forward. We cut the steel tubes down to shape, making sure each cut had the correct length and angle, which was tricky since the mitre saw had no angle measurements. Then Ham welded the frame together, taking care that it didn’t bend out of shape in the process.
To put on the bike tubes, we talked about a number of different ideas. In the end we went with the most labor intensive- bolting on each tube separately to the frame. (I also happened to go out of town the weekend we got to that stage….)
