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Building your own bike
I was thinking of getting a new bike and rather than buy a new one I was
thinking about just buying all the parts and putting it together myself. This would help me learn how it goes together so I'm better prepared to make repairs / maintenance. Would I get better value for money doing this? Is there any books specially for doing this? Any potential problems doing this? |
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Brown Cat wrote:
I was thinking of getting a new bike and rather than buy a new one I was thinking about just buying all the parts and putting it together myself. This would help me learn how it goes together so I'm better prepared to make repairs / maintenance. Would I get better value for money doing this? Is there any books specially for doing this? Any potential problems doing this? You won't get good value for money this way I'm afraid. The bike companies buy in bulk and get much better prices than the shop can. In my experience people, even smart well informed ones also make poor decisions about components giving problems of compatability. Sorry to be discouraging, but that's the way it is Roger Thorpe |
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"Brown Cat" wrote in message ... I was thinking of getting a new bike and rather than buy a new one I was thinking about just buying all the parts and putting it together myself. This would help me learn how it goes together so I'm better prepared to make repairs / maintenance. Would I get better value for money doing this? Is there any books specially for doing this? Any potential problems doing this? Get a bargain on e-bay instead. -- Simon Mason http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/ |
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On Sat, 04 Apr 2009 17:16:53 +0100, Simon Mason wrote:
"Brown Cat" wrote in message ... I was thinking of getting a new bike and rather than buy a new one I was thinking about just buying all the parts and putting it together myself. This would help me learn how it goes together so I'm better prepared to make repairs / maintenance. Would I get better value for money doing this? Is there any books specially for doing this? Any potential problems doing this? Get a bargain on e-bay instead. I was more interested in learning how a bike goes together. Reading a book doesn't work well for me, I have to have a go to learn. I could always take my own bike apart and put it back together I guess. |
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On Sat, 04 Apr 2009 15:58:39 GMT
Brown Cat wrote: I was thinking of getting a new bike and rather than buy a new one I was thinking about just buying all the parts and putting it together myself. This would help me learn how it goes together so I'm better prepared to make repairs / maintenance. Would I get better value for money doing this? Only if you have very specific requirements for the bike that no manufacturer comes close to matching. I don't know if it's still the case, but it certainly used to be true that sometimes you couldn't buy the component package (at regular retail prices) without the frame for the cost of a complete bike. |
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On Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:23:15 GMT
Brown Cat wrote: On Sat, 04 Apr 2009 17:16:53 +0100, Simon Mason wrote: "Brown Cat" wrote in message ... I was thinking of getting a new bike and rather than buy a new one I was thinking about just buying all the parts and putting it together myself. This would help me learn how it goes together so I'm better prepared to make repairs / maintenance. Would I get better value for money doing this? Is there any books specially for doing this? Any potential problems doing this? Get a bargain on e-bay instead. I was more interested in learning how a bike goes together. Reading a book doesn't work well for me, I have to have a go to learn. I could always take my own bike apart and put it back together I guess. I think he means that if you get an eBay bargain you'll have plenty of opportunity to practice your mechanical skills - it was certainly true of the bike I bought unseen for £50, but I was prepared for that and happy to spend another £70 on parts and a few hours of my time to get it sorted. |
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On Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:23:15 GMT, Brown Cat said
in : I was more interested in learning how a bike goes together. Reading a book doesn't work well for me, I have to have a go to learn. I could always take my own bike apart and put it back together I guess. It's not actually possible to buy components retail for less than the cost of an assembled bike, but if you are fussy about what components you want then you can buy a frameset and build it up easily enough. I bought a frameset for my tourer years ago, I had already upgraded pretty much everything on my Super Galaxy so I transferred it all across and put the old stuff back on the Super G as a hack. Guy -- http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk/urc "To every complex problem there is a solution which is simple, neat and wrong" - HL Mencken Contents packed by intellectual weight and may settle after posting. May contain traces of irony. |
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Brown Cat wrote:
On Sat, 04 Apr 2009 17:16:53 +0100, Simon Mason wrote: "Brown Cat" wrote in message ... I was thinking of getting a new bike and rather than buy a new one I was thinking about just buying all the parts and putting it together myself. This would help me learn how it goes together so I'm better prepared to make repairs / maintenance. Would I get better value for money doing this? Is there any books specially for doing this? Any potential problems doing this? Get a bargain on e-bay instead. I was more interested in learning how a bike goes together. Reading a book doesn't work well for me, I have to have a go to learn. I could always take my own bike apart and put it back together I guess. That's one way of doing it. I'd suggest getting a well used cheap hack off e-bay, freecycle or similar in case you make a mess of putting it back together. Then of course you may have problems getting it apart in the first place. ;-/ -- Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks" |
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Brown Cat wrote:
I was thinking of getting a new bike and rather than buy a new one I was thinking about just buying all the parts and putting it together myself. This would help me learn how it goes together so I'm better prepared to make repairs / maintenance. Would I get better value for money doing this? Like others have said, it will be more expensive doing it this way. If you do it would probably be worth buying a groupset which has most of the turny clicky bits, e.g. http://www.merlincycles.co.uk/?fn=ca...categoryId=159 I have never used this company, so don't know what they are like. You would probably need a lot of other stuff like cables, seat, wheels(1) tyres etc. You would also need to pay for some specialist tools if you don't already have them. (1) If I was going down this route, I would build the wheels myself. Is there any books specially for doing this? I would have thought that a decent maintenance book would do. Any potential problems doing this? The thing that would really put me off is the idea of putting the thing together, and finding that the frame was the wrong size for me. |
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On Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:23:15 GMT, Brown Cat wrote:
On Sat, 04 Apr 2009 17:16:53 +0100, Simon Mason wrote: "Brown Cat" wrote in message ... I was thinking of getting a new bike and rather than buy a new one I was thinking about just buying all the parts and putting it together myself. This would help me learn how it goes together so I'm better prepared to make repairs / maintenance. Would I get better value for money doing this? Is there any books specially for doing this? Any potential problems doing this? Get a bargain on e-bay instead. I was more interested in learning how a bike goes together. Reading a book doesn't work well for me, I have to have a go to learn. I could always take my own bike apart and put it back together I guess. Just remember it's the second part of that exercise that's the more difficult, and for all of that exercise you don't have a bike :-( |
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