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"\"&lt;figure id=\\\"attachment_82745\\\" style=\\\"width: 630px\\\" class=\\\"wp-caption alignnone\\\"&gt;&lt;a href=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.bikemag.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2014\\/03\\/BusbyIowa_USE.jpg\\\"&gt;&lt;img src=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.bikemag.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2014\\/03\\/BusbyIowa_USE.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"Grad student Jim Busby says he finds beauty in minimalism, so it\\u2019s no wonder that he\\u2019s in love with this 650B rigid single speed he created. \\\" width=\\\"630\\\" height=\\\"420\\\" class=\\\"size-full wp-image-82745\\\" srcset=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.bikemag.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2014\\/03\\/BusbyIowa_USE.jpg 630w, http:\\/\\/www.bikemag.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2014\\/03\\/BusbyIowa_USE-190x126.jpg 190w, http:\\/\\/www.bikemag.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2014\\/03\\/BusbyIowa_USE-135x90.jpg 135w, http:\\/\\/www.bikemag.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2014\\/03\\/BusbyIowa_USE-100x67.jpg 100w, http:\\/\\/www.bikemag.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2014\\/03\\/BusbyIowa_USE-200x133.jpg 200w, http:\\/\\/www.bikemag.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2014\\/03\\/BusbyIowa_USE-150x100.jpg 150w, http:\\/\\/www.bikemag.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2014\\/03\\/BusbyIowa_USE-160x107.jpg 160w, http:\\/\\/www.bikemag.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2014\\/03\\/BusbyIowa_USE-320x213.jpg 320w, http:\\/\\/www.bikemag.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2014\\/03\\/BusbyIowa_USE-480x320.jpg 480w\\\" sizes=\\\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\\\" \\/&gt;&lt;\\/a&gt;&lt;figcaption class=\\\"wp-caption-text\\\"&gt;Grad student Jim Busby says he finds beauty in minimalism, so it\\u2019s no wonder that he\\u2019s in love with this 650B rigid single speed he created.&lt;\\/figcaption&gt;&lt;\\/figure&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Story &amp;#038; Photo By Robert Annis&lt;br \\/&gt;\\n&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;At the North American Handmade Bicycle Show this weekend (NAHBS), a handful of students wanted to show the nation\\u2019s best bike builders that they, too, were masters of the craft.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;The students are enrolled in Professor Steve McGuire\\u2019s bike-building class at the University of Iowa\\u2019s art school. Class enrollment is spread fairly evenly between engineering students, like graduate student Ryan Grant, and art students, such as Jim Busby. It\\u2019s believed the program is one of only two such classes in the nation.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Grad student Busby finds beauty in minimalism, so it\\u2019s no wonder that he\\u2019s in love with the 650B rigid single speed he created. The wavy curves of the titanium tubes are reminiscent of the ocean waves crashing onto the shores of his native California. &lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;\\u201cI try to balance between the aesthetic and the functional,\\u201d Busby said. &amp;#8220;Hopefully I don\\u2019t have to compromise between the two. I work with titanium for those same reasons. I love the ride quality of titanium, its light weight and shininess.\\u201d  &lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Titanium also appeals to Busby\\u2019s more anal-retentive qualities as well. &lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;\\u201cI don\\u2019t need to use oil when cutting it, so I have a clean workspace,\\u201d he laughed.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Busby mocks up all of his designs in AutoCad to ensure the tubes\\u2019 unique shaping doesn\\u2019t compromise its strength. For his NAHBS build, he experimented with a lower bottom bracket and a shorter cockpit. When asked why he built a rigid singlespeed, he replied simply, \\u201cthere really aren\\u2019t any real mountains in Iowa.\\u201d&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;He\\u2019s taken McGuire\\u2019s class three times; during his first go-round, it took him the entire semester to build one bike. Now, he says, it takes him about a week. So far, he\\u2019s built a couple of mountain bikes, two fat bikes, a trials bike and one road bike, and he doesn\\u2019t intend to stop there. Unlike many of his classmates who consider bike building a hobby, Busby plans to make it his career. He\\u2019s currently trying to finalize a design for his brand, as well as a new website, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=\\\"http:\\/\\/busbybikes.com\\\"&gt;busbybikes.com&lt;\\/a&gt;&lt;\\/strong&gt;.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;For more details on the class, visit its Facebook page, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=\\\"https:\\/\\/www.facebook.com\\/IowaDBR\\\"&gt;facebook.com\\/IowaDBR&lt;\\/a&gt;&lt;\\/strong&gt;.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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