How To Fix Your Bike: Install, Overhaul, Remove, Repair, Replace.
Demonstrates how to remove and install a traditional thread-on freewheel cluster.
Covers basic removal and installation instructions for 5-bolt chainrings on 3-sprocket systems.
Measure, cut, lubricate and replace your old seized or damaged brake and shift cable housings.
Stiff chain links cause noise, shifting problems, and even injury. Watch how to fix it by hand!
Overhaul your headset at least once a year to check for wear and re-grease the ball bearings.
Demonstrates how to remove and install a cassette freehub body. Requires a hub overhaul.
Overhaul a hub, replace and grease the wheel bearings, and adjust the cones.
Demonstrates a single spoke removal and installation.
Aspects of wheel truing covered include radial, lateral, centering (or dishing) and spoke tension.
Demonstrates how to remove and install a sealed cartridge bottom bracket.
Crank removal and installation procedure, based on a square-spindle, sealed cartridge bottom bracket.
Demonstrates how to release brake cables and operate front and rear quick release axles.
How to use a patch kit to repair a tube. Also demonstrates how to remove and install a tire.
Applies to both 1/2″ and 9/16″ thread sizes. Always remember that the left pedal has a reverse thread.
Measure the correct length of a new bike chain.
Sheldon Brown’s Method
Applies to most Shimano cassette/freehub combos (not freewheels)