MIT D-Lab IAP Build Your Own Bike Class

MIT D-Lab Build Your Own Bike students with their finished bikes! From left to right: sophomore Amber Velez, graduate student Robyn Richmond, senior Sam ingersoll, graduate student John Zhang , and junior Jonhenry Poss. Photo: MIT D-Lab
MIT D-Lab Build Your Own Bike students with their finished bikes! From left to right: sophomore Amber Velez, graduate student Robyn Richmond, senior Sam ingersoll, graduate student John Zhang , and junior Jonhenry Poss. Photo: MIT D-Lab

Blog | Feb 06, 2022 | MIT D-Lab

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During the 2022 MIT Independent Activities Period (IAP), D-Lab Workshop Manager Jack Whipple offered a Build Your Own Bike class (ECS02) .

Five students, a mix of undergraduates and graduate students, signed up. Each defined their own bike geometry, was provided with a complete set of components needed to make a fully-functional steel single-speed bicycle frame, assembled all parts, and finished with a road-ready bike!

woman welding bike frame
Amber Velez welding the bike frame.
IAP Build Your Own Bike participants graduate student John Zhang (left) and senior Sam Ingersoll (right) tinkering with a chain. Photo: Courtesy MIT D-Lab
IAP Build Your Own Bike participants graduate student John Zhang (left) and senior Sam Ingersoll (right) tinkering with a chain. Photo: Courtesy MIT D-Lab
man riding bike through hallway with people looking on
John Zhang gives tests his bike in the halls of D-Lab! Photo: MIT D-Lab

 

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The finished bikes lined up in a D-Lab classroom. Photo: MIT D-Lab

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