Comments on: Short Mistakes http://www.sweetpeabicycles.com/blog/2010/02/09/short-mistakes/ This is the bike that will love you back. Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:26:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Natalie http://www.sweetpeabicycles.com/blog/2010/02/09/short-mistakes/#comment-687 Natalie Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:57:20 +0000 http://www.sweetpeabicycles.com/blog/?p=512#comment-687 That's a really neat way to think about it. I am actually in the middle of a process right now that I decided to elimate risk from: installing couplers. In the past I have built a frame and then chopped it in two, removing just the right amount of material. Like your friend, no room for error. While I can get into that super focused space for the operation, I decided this time to install the couplers in the tubes before building the bike. Less of a tightrope this way, but I have enough tightropes :) That’s a really neat way to think about it. I am actually in the middle of a process right now that I decided to elimate risk from: installing couplers. In the past I have built a frame and then chopped it in two, removing just the right amount of material. Like your friend, no room for error. While I can get into that super focused space for the operation, I decided this time to install the couplers in the tubes before building the bike.

Less of a tightrope this way, but I have enough tightropes :)

]]> By: Velosopher http://www.sweetpeabicycles.com/blog/2010/02/09/short-mistakes/#comment-686 Velosopher Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:01:04 +0000 http://www.sweetpeabicycles.com/blog/?p=512#comment-686 I had a luthier friend who'd been building for 20+ years. His waitlist was three years and growing. He told me that the longer he practiced, the more aware he was that he could get to some critical gluing stage late in the build and, in one move, screw up thousands of dollars worth of rare, beautiful wood and untold dozens of hours of work. He said that was his favorite part about building, walking that tightrope, keeping that alertness. He made building out to be a spiritual path, in which he gets personally refined just as much as do his skills. I had a luthier friend who’d been building for 20+ years. His waitlist was three years and growing. He told me that the longer he practiced, the more aware he was that he could get to some critical gluing stage late in the build and, in one move, screw up thousands of dollars worth of rare, beautiful wood and untold dozens of hours of work. He said that was his favorite part about building, walking that tightrope, keeping that alertness. He made building out to be a spiritual path, in which he gets personally refined just as much as do his skills.

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