Workshop Wednesday — How to Fit a Shimano Bottom Bracket

Workshop Wednesday: how to fit a Shimano bottom bracket and crank to your bamboo bike.

A walkthrough of fitting a standard Shimano bottom bracket and crankset, the bearings at the base of the frame that your cranks turn on. It came out of our Workshop Wednesdays live sessions, where we answered the questions builders kept emailing us, and it is often the bit that throws people at the end of a build. We go through it slowly so you can follow along at your own pace.

Building your own? Our bamboo bike frame kits come with the materials and step-by-step instructions to build a frame at home, or you can book a frame building workshop in London and build it with us.