Tools Needed For Bicycle Frame Building

Shop tools for bicycle frame building.

Tools needed for bicycle frame building.

This category includes tools needed to manufacture a bicycle frame such as heatsinks hole saw arbors purge plugs taps and tube blocks. You would need to buy the metal parts. Instead you ll need a whole different list. There are lots of different opinions techniques.

Build a bicycle frame. The first step in building a frame is to design the frame you intend to build. Shape a polystyrene core then layer carbon or glass fibre over it adding metal inserts as required for dropouts bottom bracket etc. Miter and attach the chain stays.

Tube bender brazing clamps and more. With this tool i was able to build bike frames ass backward starting with this rear sub assembly and then adding the front triangle and finishing with seat stays and bridges. It was a helpful step for me at the time but in the long run a full frame fixture was a much better solution. Weld braze the front triangle.