Maintenance
This area of the BicycleWA web site contains some articles on basic bike maintenance and other minor jobs. Bikes differ a lot in their design, so if you are not sure of it, DO NOT FIX IT! Take it to your local bike shop.
These articles are here so that you can see how things look on the bike and how they look when taken apart. You will need some special tools to take some parts off of your bike, and we will show them when in use.
If you are not sure about something take it to your LBS (Local Bike Shop). We also review cycling tools in Cycling Tool Reviews
Simple
Bottom Bracket Introduction - An introduction to bottom brackets.
Brake Pads - We all need some method of braking to stop ourselves on our bikes. Either the foot in the front wheel trick (not recommended), back pedal brakes, rim brakes or disc brakes. In this article I am going to be talking about the most common form of brake that is available today.
Crank Removal - To be able to get to the bottom bracket of the bike, you will have to remove the cranks. Thats the things that the pedals are connected to.
Fixing a Puncture - Your tyre has that sinking feeling! It's only flat on the bottom, maybe I can ride it? Not True! You will need to repair the punctured tube.
Hairspray and Hand Grips - So you have brought some new hand grips or you need to repair your brake levers and you have to get those hand grips off of the handlebars to do the job.
Advanced
Adjusting the rear gears. - In this article we will look at adjusting the rear derailleur so that it is in line with the indexing of your gear shifter.
Bottom Bracket Removal - The Bottom Bracket is not really a bracket that is on your bike, but it does hold some weight including the seatpost tube plus taking the load when rotating the cranks when pedalling.
Removal of Threaded Freewheel - There are all kinds of names for rear gear clusters and that is one name that I like to use. Lets see how to remove one.
