In celebration of the first week of New York City’s bike-share program, we turn to Andrew Low to speak about crafting a bicycle frame. Low is part of the expanding sphere of small-scale bicycle producers in cities like Portland and Chicago. We visited Low in his San Francisco shop, where he discussed tubing, homemade tooling, and the satisfactions of building by hand.

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