On a windy afternoon in Sydney, BikeRadar sat down with custom frame builder Joseph Ahearne of Ahearne Cycles. The Portland-based builder has come across the pond to teach a retiring physicist in Western Australia the basics of frame building.
Ahearne is known for his steel touring and utility bikes, as well as making a ‘flask’ cage that can be fitted using water bottle cage mounts.
BikeRadar: What is your background in cycling?
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Joseph Ahearne: I am definitely not a racer. I worked in a shop in Portland for a number of years as I was learning to build bikes. I’ve always worked on my own bikes, reconfiguring them in a bunch of ways, but it was always a bit of a let down because I couldn't restructure the things.
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There was a man named Tim Paterek who was an old school frame builder — he lives a little north of Portland — and was teaching frame building classes out of his garage. While taking the class he told me he was retiring, and wanted to sell his shop's worth of equipment. I bought him out and moved all the stuff into my garage, and started building — I have been building for almost 15 years now.
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