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TCBC Bike University: Bicycle Maintenance – March 20, 2024

After introducing himself and the Gateway Cycle Shop, Troy Herlick talked about the following items: 1. Getting Your Bike Ready for the Spring. Inspecting your bike frame, tires, wheels, quick release or thru axle, steering and handlebars, clipless pedals, and do a drop test. 2. Chain Maintenance – Checking if your chain needs to be replaced so that you do not have to replace the cassette and chainrings and cleaning your chain. Troy talked about how some riders over-lube their chain. The recommended amount is a drop per roller and every 100–150 miles. 3. Cleaning Your Bike. Never hose down your bike because it can get into the bearings and frame. Troy went over how to protect disk brakes and types of cleaners and cloths to use and how to lubricate your chain, derailer, and pivot points of rim brakes. 4. Common Things that Are Overlooked in taking care of your bike. Troy talked about chain wear, replacing bar tape, keeping shift or brake cables too long, running disc or rim brake pads too long, bearings, rim strips, e-bike batteries. 5. Things to do before and after each ride. Troy went over tire pressure, checking brakes, quick release and thru axles before the ride and wiping off bike, cleaning the chain, putting in a new tube if you used a patch on a tube during the ride, and charging all electrical devices. 6. Adjusting gears and brakes. Troy went over adjusting mechanical shifting and disc brakes. 7. How to change a tire. Troy went over the best way to change a tire from getting the tire on and off the rim, putting the tire back on and re-filling it with air. 8. Tire Pressure – Dictated by the size of the tire and the size of the rider. Not best to use max pressure. Skinnier tires are not the fastest. Older bikes may not be able to take wider tires. 9. Newer bikes – Troy talked about electronic shifting and internal cabling, 10. Questions and Answers. Waxing chains, T-9 lubricant, and recycling old tubes and tires.