Build Your Own Road Bike Guide

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.

Build your own road bike guide.

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. Open up your new bike. 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. Frame choice is perhaps the most crucial and important part of a road bike build.

This determines what rear wheel and hub is compatible with your frame. 130mm wide on road bikes and 135mm wide on mountain bikes. Rear dropouts this is where your rear wheel s hub fits into the frame. This is a guide to building up a bike from parts.

How to build up a bike. It assumes that you have tinkered with your bike but are not an expert. Here are some common bike frame standards you will have to pay attention to when preparing your own build. Pull out saddle seat post and bike frame setting aside the black owners information folder and small parts box.

Build your own road 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.