Build Your Own Road Bike Guide

How to build up a bike.

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. 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. 130mm wide on road bikes and 135mm wide on mountain bikes. Build your own road bike.

Open up your new bike. This determines what rear wheel and hub is compatible with your frame. 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.

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. Rear dropouts this is where your rear wheel s hub fits into the frame. 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.

This is a guide to building up a bike from parts. The frame 200 300.