David Henry Bohm
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David Henry Bohm is an American bicycle framebuilder and owner of Bohemian Bicycles
Bohemian Bicycles
Bohemian Bicycles is a bicycle manufacturer in Tucson, Arizona, USA . It makes handmade steel lugged frames. David Bohm, owner of Bohemian Bicycles, started the business in 1994....

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Earlylife and Education

David Bohm was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1968. At age 6 his family moved to Tucson, Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
Tucson is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States. The city is located 118 miles southeast of Phoenix and 60 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. The 2010 United States Census puts the city's population at 520,116 with a metropolitan area population at 1,020,200...

 where he spent his childhood.

He attended Colorado Rocky Mountain School
Colorado Rocky Mountain School
Colorado Rocky Mountain School , founded in 1953, is a coeducational boarding and day school in Carbondale, Colorado, USA. CRMS educates roughly 160 students in grades 9 through 12...

 where he learned welding and silver smithing.

After high school he attended college at Lake Forest College
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest College, founded in 1857, is a private liberal arts college in Lake Forest, Illinois. The college has 1,500 students representing 47 states and 78 countries....

 and the University of Arizona
University of Arizona
The University of Arizona is a land-grant and space-grant public institution of higher education and research located in Tucson, Arizona, United States. The University of Arizona was the first university in the state of Arizona, founded in 1885...


Framebuilding career

David Bohm began making bicycle frames in 1994. He is a graduate of United Bicycle Institute
United Bicycle Institute
United Bicycle Institute is a private school for bicycle mechanics and custom bicycle frame building in Ashland, Oregon, United States.The school offers one and two week courses...

 in Ashland, Oregon
Ashland, Oregon
Ashland is a city in Jackson County, Oregon, United States, near Interstate 5 and the California border, and located in the south end of the Rogue Valley. It was named after Ashland County, Ohio, point of origin of Abel Helman and other founders, and secondarily for Ashland, Kentucky, where other...

. The same year he founded Bohemian Bicycles
Bohemian Bicycles
Bohemian Bicycles is a bicycle manufacturer in Tucson, Arizona, USA . It makes handmade steel lugged frames. David Bohm, owner of Bohemian Bicycles, started the business in 1994....

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Since that time he has won numerous awards. Most recently People's Choice and Best Tandem at the North American Handmade Bicycle Show in 2007. David Bohm has been written up in such magazines as Triathlete, Dirt Rag, various German and English publications, auto magazine, Tandem-Recumbent magazine and the Tucson Citizen newspaper.
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