Build Your Own Road Bike Guide

It should help you get the parts and tools you need to get you pedalling along in no time.

Build your own road bike guide.

This determines what rear wheel and hub is compatible with your frame. Pull out saddle seat post and bike frame setting aside the black owners information folder and small parts box. Open up your new bike. 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.

Build your own road bike. 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. 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. How to build up a bike.

The frame 200 300. 130mm wide on road bikes and 135mm wide on mountain bikes. Here are some common bike frame standards you will have to pay attention to when preparing your own build. It assumes that you have tinkered with your bike but are not an expert.

Vintage bikes are often 126mm and fixed gear track frames are 120mm. This is a guide to building up a bike from parts.