I had a long weekend the next week for Thanksgiving, so I brought my stuff home to work on it in my garage and have my Dad help with the construction. One of the more challenging parts of the construction was keeping everything aligned. I didn't have access to a jig, so we kind of just did our best with what we had.

We did the initial assembly flat on the bench.





Once we got the main triangle tacked together, we slid the fork in the head tube to get the frame sitting at the right angle (the rear axle is horizontally back from the bottom bracket, so this was easy). Then we put a 1x2 tube across the down tube and clamped it to the bench to try and keep the frame from moving too much.



I didn't do any design work on the rear triangle, I basically just wanted to build something that would fit. This is what I came up with, and I think they turned out pretty good. One thing I would have liked to experiment with is making shorter chain stays to bring the rear wheel closer to the seat tube.



I did the same thing with the seat stays, just sort of working my way from the rear axle up to the seat tube.