Category: Bike Maintenance
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How To Reverse Engineer & 3D Print A Bike Part
Well, here I am again… I can’t seem to find the aluminium clamp for this seatpost—well, not all of it! Like a red rag to a bull, I accept the challenge, 3D scan it with my phone, reverse engineer it from pictures, and make one myself.
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How To Properly Waterproof Your Crank – Based Stages Power Meter
…there’s a major drawback with the crank based power meter from Stages and many others; When it rains, it’s very susceptible to getting soggy!! Then it stops working… here’s the fix.
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How To Fix A Creaky Press Fit Bottom Bracket
There’s nothing more annoying or demoralising than that sinking feeling you get when you’re rolling silently, like a gentle breeze, along a glass smooth tarmac surface on your best road bike, and that rhythmic eek, eek, eek, eek randomly starts up.
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The Truth About Rim Tape: A Comprehensive Guide
Rim tape, the cause of so much pain we never knew we suffered…
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How To Restore A V1 Wahoo Kickr
Now, if I could source those parts, we may be able to rebuild her cap’n…
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The Arrival Of A Broken Wahoo Kickr
A club mate of mine, who is a superb human being, offered to let me have an old broken, Wahoo Kickr he had lying around, almost as an ‘If you can fix that old pile of crap you can keep it’ type of challenge. It was a red rag to a bull……
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Getting To Know One Of The Death Machines
My encounter with a vertical milling machine in the hope I’m able to develop my ability to make and repair bike parts!
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A Boy And A Bicycle – Part 1
I don’t remember exactly what originally attracted me to riding bikes in my early teens. Was it the sense of freedom? Did I want to go kerb crawling on two wheels to pick up a date? Was I into causing havoc and road rage by cycling on the pavements and running red lights? Whatever the…