SLC Collective volunteers featured in Trib's article on frame building class

Todd Erickson, instructor (center) and Mark Chetti, student (right),
are both volunteers at the Collective.
(Photo: Salt Lake Tribune)

A Salt Lake Tribune story featuring a bicycle frame building class that was co-sponsored by the SLC Bike Collective and Granite School District was published earlier this week, and highlighted several Collective volunteers, namely, Todd Erickson, Mark Chetti. The frame building class was part of the Granite Peaks Lifelong Learning program, which offers extra-curricular and adult education classes for everything from mountaineering to...bicycle frame building.

For about $1000 ($350 for instruction and $700 for materials), many class members are making their own custom frames for much less than the $4000-$5000 price tag that many custom frame builders slap on their products.

"It's just awesome to think you're riding something you built," remarked new frame builder and class member Drew Shetrone of Hollday.

The Bike Collective provided the class instructor and Granite Peaks provided the metal shop and the welding teacher. A great partnership in education, Jonathan Morrison, director of the SLC Bike Collective, said that "our goal here is to build culture, not necessarily just help someone build one frame."

The Collective's goal is to encourage and help people so that they can in turn help others, a cyclical process approach that has yielded some fine volunteers, activists, racers, and all around good people on bikes that you see around the City.

Although the first run of the frame building class, which is winding down now, was limited to seven students, the Collectie and Granite hope that classes in the future will be able to reach many more people interested in the art of bike building.

To learn more, read the Tribune's article, or,

GranitePeaks.org

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