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.
You know how sometimes your gears don’t change with firm frankness? When they don’t snap into action like German watch works or have the precision of the pistons in an F1? Or even when they react...
How To Adjust a Mountain Bike Rear Derailleur
Whether you mountain bike down edgy rock gardens or...
I like being thorough and bike mechanics requires a lot of attention to detail. If you don’t get it right the first time, your ride suffers. And the level of competence, time and patience can...
First things first: the Hayes system uses DOT 3 or DOT 4 mechanical brake fluid. DO NOT USE MINERAL OIL FOR THESE BRAKES!!!!!!!
Second, the bleed starts from the caliper up to the brake...
How To Adjust a Rear Derailleur on Your Mountain or Road Bike
While today's indexed shifting can make shifting nearly effortless, when problems arise it can be annoying or...
Tutorial on how to remove a freewheel from a bicycle wheel.
First remove the skewer from the wheel. Then identify the correct tool to remove the freewheel. Once you have the correct...
Tutorial on how to install bike pedals. Pedals will usually have left or right hand markings on them, either on the body of the pedal or on the end of the spindles.
Starting with right...
If you have the right tools removing your crank is a relatively simple and painless process. In this video we removed a square taper crank, also know as a cotterless crankset. These days there...