Summary: Make your bike look great for summer riding season. Learn how replace a few basic parts in this free cycling advice video from a bike consultant at a renowned bicycle shop.
Patrick Ramirez works at Contender Bicycles in Salt Lake City, Utah. The shop specializes in road cycling, though it caters to cyclists of all kinds. Contender Bicycles was named "Best...read more
"So, if we’re looking at what you can do to your bike to spruce it up or make it look really good for summertime riding you could clean it off which what we do here is clean it off address everything shine it up attention to detail all the little hard to reach areas. A really good thing to do is to make your bike look like new is maybe get a new set of tires on there. Something new clean something different. Start the year off fresh with a new pair of rubber tires there. New tape get a new set of tape for your hands if your tape has gotten dirty over the last few months has any tears in it put a new set of bar tape on there you can choose from any number of different colors or you can even do something crazy and snazzy with a carbon fiber water bottle cage out there. Something that you don't see on a lot of bikes there really cool there really nice and colorful. So get some new tape get some cages make your bike look like new. Check your tires make sure that there correct and if you like replace them. Get some new rubber on there."
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