Bicycle Maintenance: Bike Stand

Video Transcript

"If you are working on your bike at home a really good piece to have is a bike stand. It will elevate the bike and allow you to work on it without having any troubles. This particular one will accommodate anyone whether it be a mountain bike, a road bike, a kid's bike or cruiser so if we look at the shifting on the bike here what you would want to do is run through the bike and see that it is shifting correctly, up the gears see that it is shifting correctly down the gears and address the problem as you see it whether it is going too fast or too slow you would address it in your cable tension there. If it's slow up the gears you would increase and if it is too fast you would decrease your tension. That is in the rear, you address it in the front here for your gears and your crank. You go to addressing your cable tension up too fast or too slow and that would allow you to shift through the bike correctly for when you need it for going uphill or downhill or shifting on the flat lands too. The chain lube will help you once you have dialed in your cable tension to make sure that everything is quiet, smooth, and clean on the gears there so address your cable tension and your chain lube. If you need professional help come in to Contender Bicycles in the 9th and 9th area."