Bicycle Repair

How To Fix Your Bike: Install, Overhaul, Remove, Repair, Replace.


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How To Replace A Freewheel

Demonstrates how to remove and install a traditional thread-on freewheel cluster.

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How To Replace Your Chainrings

Covers basic removal and installation instructions for 5-bolt chainrings on 3-sprocket systems.

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How To Replace Cable Housings

Measure, cut, lubricate and replace your old seized or damaged brake and shift cable housings.

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How To Loosen a Stiff Chain Link

Stiff chain links cause noise, shifting problems, and even injury. Watch how to fix it by hand!

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How To Overhaul a Threaded Headset

Overhaul your headset at least once a year to check for wear and re-grease the ball bearings.

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How To Replace a Freehub Body

Demonstrates how to remove and install a cassette freehub body. Requires a hub overhaul.

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How To Overhaul Wheel Bearings

Overhaul a hub, replace and grease the wheel bearings, and adjust the cones.

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How To Replace a Broken Spoke

Demonstrates a single spoke removal and installation.

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How To True a Wheel

Aspects of wheel truing covered include radial, lateral, centering (or dishing) and spoke tension.

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How To Replace a Cartridge Bottom Bracket

Demonstrates how to remove and install a sealed cartridge bottom bracket.

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How To Replace Cotterless Crank Arms

Crank removal and installation procedure, based on a square-spindle, sealed cartridge bottom bracket.

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How To Remove and Install Your Wheels

Demonstrates how to release brake cables and operate front and rear quick release axles.

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How To Fix a Flat Tire

How to use a patch kit to repair a tube. Also demonstrates how to remove and install a tire.

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How To Replace Your Pedals

Applies to both 1/2″ and 9/16″ thread sizes. Always remember that the left pedal has a reverse thread.

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How To Calculate Chain Length

Measure the correct length of a new bike chain.
Sheldon Brown’s Method

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How To Replace a Cassette Cluster

Applies to most Shimano cassette/freehub combos (not freewheels)