Installing Smaller Chainring On Homemade Fixie
The 53t chainring was just too big for the fixie. But I sort of knew that when I built it, but that was what I had on hand at the time. I looked for a deal on a 46t chain ring and got one on ebay. So I installed it on my fixed gear bike …Read more »
How To Fix Bottom Bracket Noises
I show how to find and repair clicking, ticks, creaks, squeaks, knocks, clunks, or other strange annoying sounds coming from a bike bottom bracket or cranks while pedaling. I show the most common causes for noises and how to fix them. Keep in mind a noise can seem to be coming from the bottom bracket, …Read more »
Bike Noises – Find Them To Fix Them
Bikes can make the strangest noise. Squeaks, creaks, clicks, grinding, whirs, ticks, clunks, etc. The first step in fixing a noise on a bike is to locate where it is coming from. But noises can tricky. They can sound like they are coming from one place, but are actually coming from another. I talk about …Read more »
Changing A Square Taper Crank Set
I replace the ugly mismatched crank set on a bike with a square taper spindle bottom bracket. Special tools used in this video: Park Tool Professional Pedal Wrench – PW-4 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000W78V8E/ref=nosim/rjthebikeguy-20 Park Tool Crank Puller http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0028YUZSS/ref=nosim/rjthebikeguy-20
Installing Compact Crankset On DIY Cyclocross/Gravel Bike
I install a SRAM X5 crankset on my homebrew cyclocross bike. At the recent Black Fly Challenge mountain bike race, the bike just didn’t have low enough gearing to make it up some of the steeper hills. So I decided to install a new crankset with smaller chainrings. This also involved adding spacers to the …Read more »