How to Build a Bike: A Simple Guide to Making Your Own Ride

Learn how to build your own unique single speed bicycle! Get to know your bottom bracket from your brake lever, and your stem from your chain stays, and learn how fun, creative and satisfying making your own bike can be. How to Build a Bike is a simple, straightforward, and fun DIY manual will take you from complete bike building beginner to confident bike builder in a series of fully-illustrated instructions. Jenni Gwiazdowski, who runs the Londen Bike Kitchen, put this book together to teach you the right skills, how to choose the right components, use tools confidently and ace the technical bits to end up with a unique and totally bespoke single-speed bike. Learn how to dismantle a vintage bike for its frame and parts, measure it all for a perfect fit, assemble it with new parts into a safe and stylish new bike, and finally pop on a bell or basket.

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