Now that it’s bike building season again, I’m going to try and run through the building of an entire bike from scratch. So to start with, here’s some tips for headset installation.

I started working on my latest project this week – the Viking. This is really to see how I get on building a bike from scratch, rather than a refurb. I picked up a brand new frame (a Viking fixed steel frame with track fork ends), which I think had been used as a display item.

I learned my first two lessons pretty quickly…