Build Your Own Road Bike Guide

Build your own road bike.

Build your own road bike guide.

This is a guide to building up a bike from parts. Vintage bikes are often 126mm and fixed gear track frames are 120mm. It assumes that you have tinkered with your bike but are not an expert. Since we re going the budget route we ll throw out the high end options like cabron fibre titanium and focus on the two most common frame materials.

Open by slicing through the stickers covering the tabs on the top of the box be careful to keep the box intact and hold on to the packing materials as you can use it for future shipping of your bike. Rear dropouts this is where your rear wheel s hub fits into the frame. How to build a road bike a beginner s experience opinion winter bikes by girodilento on 9th november 2013 if you re like me and not very mechanical the idea of building your own bike whilst appealing seems difficult if not potentially dangerous. This determines what rear wheel and hub is compatible with your frame.

It should help you get the parts and tools you need to get you pedalling along in no time. Frame choice is perhaps the most crucial and important part of a road bike build. The frame 200 300. For those building an all road or gravel bike larger sprockets and sub compact cranks will be a necessity not only for tackling unpaved roads but for contending with the effect of larger tyres.

How to build up a bike. 130mm wide on road bikes and 135mm wide on mountain bikes.