Daniel-San to Mr Miyagi

Luke Skywalker to Yoda

Henry III to Doug Fattic

I'll be leaving this weekend for three weeks at Doug Fattic's framebuilding class. I'm pumped, nervous, butterflies, rays of sunshine, chewed up fingernails. It should be a blast overall though. The other two fellas are both from the west coast and even one from Portland. He could of attended the UBI course but instead traveling to Michigan instead. Must say something. I was sitting on the crapper long enough and decided if I really want to get the ball rolling then I need to do something and that's what I did. Wish me luck folks! It'll be a nose to the grindstone schedule from 9am-6pm with Saturdays off. Come July 29th I'll have a finished frame painted ready to slap some parts on. I'm thinking of stripping the Sports Tourer down and putting NR gruppo that got some drillium work on it it. It'll be a full race frame with no fender or rack mounts, tight clearances. I went with a lot of the characteristic of a De Rosa Neo Primato...vertical socketed dropouts, semi sloping crown, fastback seat stays(no Columbus tubing though). One of those grail frame/forks.

Henry