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
Install Campagnolo Over Torque (BB30) Bottom Bracket and Cranks
In this video, we're going to show you how to fit a Campagnolo over torque bottom bracket and change set. The over torque bottom bracket is a standard BB 30 press fit. To do this job, you'll need...
Company: Park Campagnolo
Type: Repair Tutorial
Fix Bike Crank Bolt Issues
For the most part bolts that creek or are loose are a pretty easy fix, either tighten them, lube them, or replace them. That's partly true with bicycle bolts as well but when dealing with the...
Company: Truvativ
Type: Repair Tutorial
DIY Straighten a Bicycle Fork
A bent bicycle fork can happen in a number of ways - a bad wreck, a big bump, being backed over in the garage, etc. What's weird about these instances is that the bike can be bent in a split-...
Company: Schwinn
Type: Repair Tutorial
Install and Mount Wired Cycling Computer
We're going to go over how to install a basic wired bicycle computer. All you'll need is a third hand cable tightener and a pair of cutters. This particular computer users rubber...
Company: Bontrager Chris King Record
Type: Repair Tutorial
DIY Cut Bike Steer Tube and Tap Star Nut Down
I'm going to be trimming down my steer tube. I actually just thought this up on how to tap the star nut down without using an actual star nut tool. What I'm going to do is...
Company: Cane Creek Truvativ
Type: Repair Tutorial
How to Install a Star Nut in a Bicycle Fork
I'm going to show you how to install a star nut into your bicycle fork.
Star Nut in Fork
In order to install the star nut straight into the...
Company: Park
Type: Repair Tutorial
How to Set Up Mountain Bike Suspension Fork
Suspension on mountain bikes is a really important area, and with most suspension forks and rear shocks being air sprung, knowing exactly how to get the air into your fork and how much air should...
Type: Repair Tutorial
How to Remove a Bike Stem
I'm going to show you how to remove the stem from your bicycle. First thing you want to do is to make sure that your wheel has been removed so that when you disassemble the top cap...
Type: Repair Tutorial
DIY Change a Mountainbike Handlebar Stem
For many consumers, once they buy their new bike they'll never think twice about the handlebar stem as it generally doesn't cause the rider any problems. There are times though when a bad spill...
Type: Repair Tutorial
Cut and Resize Shimano Disc Brake Hose
Today, we are going to be cutting the hose. As you can see I installed this hose and it's huge. You can do this off the bike or on the bike, however you like. I do it on, because I...
Type: Repair Tutorial
Replace a Fixed Gear (Fixie) or Track Bike Sprocket
If you ride a track bike or single speed bike you've only got one option when it comes to gearing, but what if you want to gear down or gear up? You have three choices....
Company: Vuelta Pista Campagnolo
Type: Repair Tutorial
How to Set Up and Adjust Cantilever Brakes
Hi, I'm Jonathan from Franklinton CycleWorks. Today I'm going show you how to adjust your cantilever brakes. Now, cantilever brakes are also known as cyclocross brakes because...
Type: Repair Tutorial
How to Fix a Stuck Shifter (Shimano)
Unless you ride a fixie bike or have no need to get out of 2nd gear the odds are you're probably going to need your shifters at some point. Since the shifters get used so often and have so many...
Company: Shimano
Type: Repair Tutorial
Replace a Road or Mountain Bike Chainring
Why would you want to replace your chainrings? Well, it might be that you’re upgrading them, changing the size, or you might want to experiment with some Osymetric or Rotor rings on the road. If...
Company: Park Campagnolo Shimano
Type: Repair Tutorial
How to Wrap Your Bicycle Handlebars: Part One
Handlebars are often overlooked but are a pretty essential device on any bike this side of a unicycle. For the ultimate in grip and performance many riders opt to use bar tape for even better...
Type: Repair Tutorial
DIY Shimano Rear Derailleur Adjustment
Rear derailleurs for the most part are relatively maintenance free except for lubing and cleaning regularly. One minor fix you may have to perform on a regular basis is an adjustment for when the...
Type: Repair Tutorial
DIY Hollowtech II Crank Installation
The crank is the powerhouse that keeps your bicycle moving and from time to time the unit needs to be replaced or you might just want an upgrade. One such improvement can be made to your cycling...
Company: Continental Shimano Dura Ace
Type: Repair Tutorial
How to Replace an SRAM Crank and Bottom Bracket
I'm Mike from tree fort bikes. Today we're gonna show you how to remove and install a SRAM crank and external bottom bracket.
To do this work we're going to need a few tools, a 16 notch...
Type: Repair Tutorial
How to Replace a Shimano Threaded Bottom Bracket
There are too common types of bottom brackets on modern bikes.
One is the press bit the other one is the threaded which is exactly what we've got on this bike. Here in this video we can...
Type: Repair Tutorial
Simple Shimano XT Rear Derailleur Adjustment
Hey this is Johnny Bravo from Performance Bicycle.
Derailleurs guide the chain from here to gear and when they work they're great but when they don't your stuck and your frustrated,...
Type: Repair Tutorial