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How to Build Cycling Stamina
The best way to build cycling stamina is to focus on increasing the number of minutes you are riding. Increase your cycling stamina with help from a professional endurance coach in this free video on...
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How to Prevent Cycling Knee Problems
To prevent cycling knee problems, you need to understand the different factors that can cause injuries to your knees. Prevent knee problems from cycling with advice from a professional endurance coach...
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How to Use Bike Shoes
Knowing how to use bike shoes can really enhance the cycling experience and allow you to be more efficient in your pedaling. Learn to use bike shoes with tips from a professional endurance coach in...
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How to Wear Bike Shorts
Wearing bike shorts might seem odd at first because you do not want anything in between your skin and the shorts. Wear bike shorts correctly with help from a professional endurance coach in this free...
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How to Downhill Bike
When downhill biking, you first want to get a grasp on the safety considerations before working on increasing your speed. Improve your downhill biking with tips from a professional endurance coach in...
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How to Change Bike Gears
Changing bike gears smoothly and efficiently can take a lot of practice, especially depending on the terrain you are riding on. Discover how to quickly change gears when cycling with advice from a...
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How to Size a Bicycle Helmet
When sizing a bicycle helmet, if there is any space for the helmet to move around, then it is too big. Get the right sized bicycle helmet for you with tips from a professional endurance coach in this...
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How to Use a Heart Monitor for Cycling
Heart rate monitors for cycling consist of a wrist strap with a read out of your heart rate and a chest strap to go around your torso. Monitor your heart when cycling with instruction from a...
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Homemade Bicycle Rack
Bike racks are a popular add-on to commuter bicycles as an alternative to carrying a backpack or messenger bag that may be uncomfortable or interfere with balance while riding. While there are several...
View ArticleHow to Adjust the Derailer on an Old Schwinn Continental
While Schwinn Continentals were produced over several decades, they continued to largely resemble the European-style racing bikes that first inspired their design. Among other similarities, the bike...
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How to Change Shimano 105 Gears
Shimano classifies its 105 road bike group as "'pro-level' technology more accessible to part-time racers and fitness enthusiasts." Shimano 105 sits in the middle of the company's road bike component...
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How to Use a Bicycle Rivet Tool
Changing your chain is regular bicycle maintenance, much like changing the oil in your car. In order for your bike's drivetrain to run smoothly, the chain must be clean and have no more than 2,500 to...
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How to Extend Cleat Cycling Shoes
Extending the life of your cycling cleats and shoes not only saves you money, but it enhances riding performance and safety. As Mike Cushionbury, a writer at "Bicycling" magazine, notes, worn cleats...
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How to Braid Bicycle Handlebar Tape
New bicycle handlebar tape, also known as "grip tape," can make even the oldest ride look new again. It is an inexpensive fix that gives some people fits. Taking your time is really the key. Grip tape...
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How to Change Freewheels on a BMX Bike
Changing the freewheel on your BMX bike allows you to customize the gear ratio between the front chain ring and the rear sprocket. This allows the rider to change how much (or how little) effort it...
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How to Fix Shimano Deore Shifters
Shimano's Deore shifters are very popular mountain bike style shifters known for their ease of adjustment, dependability, and shifting accuracy. The shifters come standard on many mountain bicycle made...
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How to Adjust Shimano 105 Front Triple Derailleur
The front derailleur moves your bike chain between the chain-rings. A wrongly adjusted front derailleur can cause chain-rub, unexpected gear shifts or chain-drops (especially on triple chain-rings)....
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How to Adjust Rear Derailleur Cable
Shifting performance on a bicycle can often be attributed to the adjustment of the derailleur cable. Simply, a poorly adjusted derailleur cable will lead to disappointing performance from the...
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How to Find the Gear Ratio on a Bike
Calculating bike gear ratios is a mathematical process for determining the ease or difficulty of a particular gear combination. A bicycle with multiple gears will have multiple ratios, each ratio...
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How to Reattach the Bicycle Rear Derailleur
Reattaching your bike's rear derailleur is fairly simple; most enthusiasts can do it with a few simple tools. It's helpful to first understand some terminology. The derailleur has two pulleys; the...
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How to Fix a Bent Rear Derailleur
After an accident, a rear derailleur will sometimes "bend" toward the frame of the bike. Actually, it's not the derailleur that's bent: rather, it is the derailleur hanger. This is a small, sometimes...
View ArticleHow to Reset Schwinn 12 Bicycle Computer
The Schwinn 12 bicycle computer features an array of functions. These functions, including speed, distance and time, offer the cyclist valuable feedback and information when riding. If you’re...
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How to Make Your Cruiser Bike More Aerodynamic
A cruiser is one of the least aerodynamic bikes you can buy. They are heavy and have features such as wide tires and wide handlebars that create substantial drag against the wind. Creating true...
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How to Change a Shimano Cassette
In some ways, a cassette represents the heart of a geared bicycle. The cassette contains the majority of your gears, and the cyclist relies on these gears--there can be as many as 11--to optimize the...
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How to Check the Tire Size of a Bicycle
Many cyclists could care less what size tires are on their bikes until they need to change them. When a flat strikes or your tread wears thin, tire size is required information. Putting the wrong size...
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How to Share a Family Car
Sharing a family car can be done, but it will take a lot of good communication, patience and compromise. If two working adults will be sharing a car, both might want to look into the possibilities of...
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How to Add Disc Brakes to a Beach Cruiser
Disc brakes are known for their incredible stopping power, ease of maintenance and performance in inclement weather. Disc brake systems are quickly gaining popularity in the bicycling community, but at...
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How to Build Off-Center Bicycle Wheels
With the exception of most BMX bikes, the rear wheel of your bike is likely built with two different sized spokes, so as to "offset" the rim, or otherwise to set it off center to the hub. The creates a...
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How to Replace Bicycle Pedals
There are several reasons why you might need to replace bicycle pedals. Maybe you are upgrading from platform pedals to the clipless variety. You might be switching brands or styles. Often, pedals...
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How to Remove a Sprocket on a BMX Bike
Because different size sprockets result in different gear ratios, BMX riders are sometimes inspired to remove one sprocket in favor of another. At other times, sprocket replacement may simply be...
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How to Adjust Bicycle Seats to Avoid Groin Numbness
Many a cyclist has complained of groin numbness caused by a bicycle seat. In some instances, the problem can be attributed to a simple mismatch between seat and rider--the seat may simply be too large...
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Bike Pump Instructions
Many cyclists make the mistake of not inflating their tires before every ride. Neglecting this quick task can lead to longer periods of pain. An under-inflated tire can lead to a "pinch flat," which...
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How to Build a Bike Pump Track
A bike pump track is a series of rollers and berms built in a loop that, if correctly designed, can be ridden continually without the need for pedaling. Forward momentum is maintained by "pumping" the...
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Homemade Bike Carrier
There are countless enjoyable places to go on a bike ride, but not all of them are within riding distance of your home. When transporting your bike, it can be difficult to cram the bike in your...
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Ontario Bicycle Helmet Law
Bicycle helmet laws in Ontario, Canada, focus on children. The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto found that the regulations have saved lives. They advocate for stronger bicycle helmet...
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How to Fit Hope Pads on MTB Disc Brakes
The inherent rigors of mountain biking tend to exact a heavy toll upon equipment, and brake pads are no exception. Like all brake pads, Hope pads wear over time, becoming increasingly thin and...
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How to Repair Warped Bicycle Wheels Using the Spokes
When perfectly even, a bicycle wheel is considered to be "true". For this to happen, the spokes on the wheel must be tensioned so that the entire diameter of the rim is positioned directly over the...
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How to Adjust a Shimano Sora
Belonging to the Shimano Sora group of bicycle components, Sora shifters may need to be adjusted from time to time to ensure optimum performance. Each shifter includes a cable that runs to its...
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How to Use Crank Brothers Pedals
In the world of clipless pedals, Crank Brothers ranks among one of the more unusual looking. Each pedal features Crank Brothers' unique "eggbeater" design, whereby an eggbeater-shaped body encloses an...
View ArticleHow to Install a Stewart Warner Bicycle Speedometer
Stewart Warner bicycle speedometers were some of the first speedometers ever built for bicycles. Adapted from the company's car speedometer designs, Stewart Warner bicycle speedometers have a certain...
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How to Adjust a Shimano 21 Speed
The number of speeds, or gears, on a bicycle is calculated by multiplying the number of rear cogs by the number of front chain rings. A bicycle can have as many as 21 speeds, thanks to seven rear cogs...
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Alternative Bicycle Seats
The basic design of the bicycle seat, or saddle, is intended to help the cyclist. The broad back provides support, and the thin horn extending forward helps the rider to control the bike with the...
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How to Adjust Your Shimano Rear Derailleur
When shifting becomes sluggish, derailleur adjustment will almost always solve the problem. A rear derailleur, whether Shimano or some other brand, serves the purpose of moving the drive chain from one...
View ArticleHow to Change a Shimano Zipp to a Campy
Considering the average cost of a pair of Zipp bicycle wheels, it would be hard to justify ditching one set for another when swapping from a Shimano to a Campy drive train. Fortunately, you don’t have...
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How To Change a Regular Bike to Stationary
A stationary bike can come in handy. If the weather is less than ideal or you're just not ready to appear in public in spandex, pedaling your regular bike in the house can ensure you get your ride in....
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How to Compare Road Bicycles
Unless you are Lance Armstrong (who gets his bikes for free anyway) or you have serious cash to blow, you will be just fine with a road bike that costs less than $2,000. Sure, the expensive stuff is...
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How to Change the Rear Shock on a Santa Cruz Heckler
Replacing a rear shock on a mountain bike, including the Santa Cruz Heckler, can improve the bike's handling while climbing and descending, and it's not an overly difficult task to accomplish. When...
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How to Adjust a Shimano Derailleur
A geared bicycle will typically feature two derailleurs -- front and back. Each derailleur is responsible for shifting the drive chain from one selected gear to another. Like other brand derailleurs,...
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How to Assemble a Bicycle Seat
You've just purchased a brand new bicycle seat--one that will eliminate seat discomfort once and for all--and now you just have to mount it on your bike. Of course, you have to take the old seat off...
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How to Build a Fixed-Gear Road Bike
The original intention of a fixed-gear bike, known technically as a track bike, is for it to be raced on a track called a velodrome. Bike messengers have been riding "fixies" in the city since the...
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