Build Your Own Road Bike Guide

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Build your own road bike guide.

Frame choice is perhaps the most crucial and important part of a road bike build. Vintage bikes are often 126mm and fixed gear track frames are 120mm. This is a guide to building up a bike from parts. Here are some common bike frame standards you will have to pay attention to when preparing your own build.

It should help you get the parts and tools you need to get you pedalling along in no time. This determines what rear wheel and hub is compatible with your frame. 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. How to build up a bike.

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

Rear dropouts this is where your rear wheel s hub fits into the frame. It assumes that you have tinkered with your bike but are not an expert.