repair stand
A solid bike repair stand is essential for any weekend warrior or seasoned mechanic. It makes the job of tuning and maintaining your sweet ride 10 times easier. Bike stands come in a variety of shapes and sizes from basic bench clamps to freestanding repair stands. Most have the ability to fold down for travel, unless you get a super heavy duty stand for shop work.
repair stand Tutorials
How to Install a SRAM Bike Chain
Chains are where you can get a lot of grit and just plain dirtiness accumulating so it’s something you should clean and maintain on a regular basis. If you need to install a chain, remember to get...
Company: SRAM
Type: Repair Tutorial
Install a RaceFace Narrow/Wide Single Chainring
RaceFace’s new chainring has a narrow/wide narrow tooth profile. It retains the chain without the need of a guide or a keeper, and it’s reducing some weight.
Look at...
Company: Race Face
Type: Repair Tutorial
How to Route Brake Cable Hose on RockShox RS-1 Fork
RS-1 Brake Hose Routing:
Proper brake hose routing on the RS-1 is important to make sure your hose is not rubbing on your wheel or tire, and to make sure the brake hose is not damaging the...
Type: Repair Tutorial
How to Install a Cane Creek Threadless Headset
The headset is a small, yet critical component that is often overlooked. In this video you’ll see how to service, adjust, and install your thread less headset.
For this, you will need a...
Company: Cane Creek Race Face Race Face
Type: Repair Tutorial
How to Stop External Bottom Bracket Creaks and Remove Cranks
Taking off crank and eliminating creaks:
This video will deal with external bottom bracket styles. You will need a chain breaker, bottom bracket puller, 8mm allen, 4-5-6 mm allen, a...
Type: Repair Tutorial
Installing Spokes on a SRAM XO HUB
This video will show you a method for loading spokes on to SRAM XO hubs when you are building wheels.
XO hubs have a unique flange shaped design, which yields a much stronger and robust...
Company: SRAM
Type: Repair Tutorial
Installing and Adjusting Sram Red DoubleTap Shifters
This video will show you how to install and adjust Sram DoubleTap Shifters.
You will need the following tools and supplies: a 2.5 & 5 mm hex wrenches, a torque wrench, a pair of cable...
Type: Repair Tutorial
How To Fit A Press Fit BB
How to press fit your bottom bracket:
Apply Grease to Bottom Bracket Shell Before Installing
Make sure all surfaces are nice and clean, then apply a...
Company: Hope
Type: Repair Tutorial
Mounting of CeramicSpeed with BB30 Bottom Brackets and Tool
CeramicSpeed bearings are hand made in Denmark from the finest quality components and special CeramicSpeed balls. Each part is designed to have the lowest friction possible and the longest...
Company: CeramicSpeed Park
Type: Repair Tutorial
Installing Press Fit Ceramic Bearings in BB95 Bottom Bracket
Installation of Press-Fit bottom bracket ceramic bearings on a 2011 Gary Fisher Superfly 100 Elite. Company: Park
Type: Repair Tutorial
How to Adjust a Shimano Nexus Internal 3 Speed Hub
Today, we’re going to work on internal multi speed hubs. This is the Shimano shifter. It is the Nexus model, which is written on the body. Another way to tell that this is Shimano is that the...
Company: Shimano
Type: Repair Tutorial
DIY Remove Bike Braze Ons and Bosses from Bike Frame
This is a video on how to remove various bosses and mounts on a road bike frame. This is an old road bike from the 70s, and I thought I’d make a video on how to easily remove this stuff...
Type: Repair Tutorial
DIY Set Derailleur Limits
It's good to push things to the limit when you're rock climbing or running a 5K but the derailleur on your bike should stay well within it's set range. The upper and lower limits of your...
Type: Repair Tutorial
Fix Hybrid / Mountain Bike V-Brakes That Are Rubbing
It seems like an obvious statement but rubbing on a bike is never good, unless of course you're in a race and rubbing the contestant next to you to get an edge. For the most part the only rub...
Type: Repair Tutorial
How to Fix a Bent Rear Derailleur
Peter wants to know: my bike fell over on the drive side and bent my derailleur hanger. Do you have any tips on how to straighten it back out?
Having a spare derailleur hanger on hand is...
Type: Repair Tutorial
How to Cut and Wrap Bull Horn Handlebars for a Bike
I've had my fixie for about three years now if you've watched any of the other videos, but now what I want to do is I'm going to turn these handle bars into bull horns and I'm...
Type: Repair Tutorial
How to Install a Bike Seat on 3 Different Seat Posts
I'm going to show you how to install and adjust a saddle on three of the most basic type of seat posts.
This is the first one, it requires 6 mm allen key. All you're going to...
Company: Bontrager
Type: Repair Tutorial
How to Install Fenders on a Bike
I'm here to show you how to install fenders on your bike. It's actually a pretty easy process, you only need a couple tools: 15 mm wrench, 10 mm wrench, 5 mm allen wrench, and 3 mm allen wrench....
Type: Repair Tutorial
DIY Remove a Fixed Gear Cog at Home without Special Tools
Today, I'll be showing you guys how to remove your fixed gear cog, but I will show you how to remove it without any special tools. Only tools you'll need is a screwdriver or some...
Type: Repair Tutorial
DIY How to True a Wheel on Bike with No Truing Stand
Today, we’re going to show you how to true a wheel right off your bicycle. This isn’t what is normally done at the shop, but if you’re at home or out on the trail you can touch up your wheel and...
Company: Park
Type: Repair Tutorial