How to properly build a road bike?

It all depends on the type of bike and what kind of budget you are on.
I would mostly brush up on parts/groupset compatibility, be familiar with modern and older road bike standards.
Be knowledgeable on the different frame materials and their general properties.
Sheldon brown's website is a good starting point for a refresher. Pick up a Park tools blue book of bicycle repair. I've found those to be useful as well.

Go watch some youtube video's. That's where I learned everything.

>>929092
>manlet bike

>>929092
>So /n/ I was wondering if anyone knew of some guides on how to do a proper entire full road bike build?
If you're assembling a racing tricycle, remember that it has three wheels.

>>929117
frames bigger than 56 looks dumb as fuck

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>>929121
Tires thicker than your dick look dumb as fuck.

>>929092
If allu use ppl-1/2 on everything but derailleurs
Remember top cap before stem bolts
If bb30 u r fucked without press
Watch GCN videos for everything

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>>929121

fucking manlet

>>929121
>not 60
are you a midget

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>>929161
>>929166
show me a bike that wouldnt look better as 56 or smaller

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>>929225
this bike looks beautiful, would it look even better one size smaller? yes.

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>>929225

>this would look better if sized for a midget

>>929311
There is no way that is over 60, but it would still look better with a handfull less of headtube.

Large bikes look retarded. It's a medical fact, yo.

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>>929311
framewise yes

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>>929318

>>929318
one size makes all the difference with the headtube

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>>929314
>>929319
>>929318

Large frames get the bitches

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>>929327
but they dont

>This thread

Oh jeez, Trump is going to be president, fuck.

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no he wont

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the only good looking big frame

>>929334
Fork looks like its installed wrongly.

>>929337
yea it looks a bit crashed now that you mention it

It's a track frame, overlap is a very real thing. This is why that bitch is going to win it all you don't even know what you're looking at.

>>929339
Im looking at pure sex thats for sure

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Fucking lanklets

44cm or Die

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this bike kills lanklets

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> These aesthetics
> Lanklets on suicide watch

>>929368
>that chainring

>>929378
my sides achieved escape velocity when I saw that, too.

>>929411
lanklets getting dropped hard

Look stuff up on the GCN channel on Youtube.

>>929528
>>929411
>>929378
What's so funny about the chainring? Multispeed chainring with pins and ramps used as a single?

>>929546
The size anon, its quite big in proportion to the bike, almost the size of the wheels and close to hitting the ground.

gotta go fast manlets are the best manlets

>>929330
That bike looks like shit

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>>929551
and after going thru with changing out the crank etc, it's still sitting on knobbies

>>929368
lanklet here, if this had gears I'd probably have killed myself by now

>>929121
I'd say 54-58 (maaaybe 60) is the sweetspot. Everything below reeks of manlet, everything above looks too goofy. Sadly I'm destined to ride a goofy bike.

>>929551
>wat is gear inches
Smaller wheels need bigger chainring to get the same gearing as a standard bike, baka desu. That's actually a very low gear.

>>929654
well no shit, its still funny to see. Im explained why I thought it looked rad, not why it looked that way

>>929551
But there's nothing funny about the chainring compared to any other oversize part on it.

>>929684

were gt and all these right with the geometry all along ?
I feel like there are quite a lot of frames with low seat stays nowaday

>>929684

Its funny but this almost reminds me of a mini velo except this is for a giant.

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>>929337
>wrongly

Incorrectly is the word you're looking for.