Get your mountain bike ready for smooth riding this summer with this helpful bike maintenance checklist from Lennard Zinn.
How to Get Your Mountain Bike Ready for Summer
Category: Bikes & Tech
See how to fix or tune your road bike, mountain bike, or cyclocross bike with articles from VeloPress guides on bike maintenance, repair, and tuning.
Inside the Pro Cycling Team Garage
Every professional cycling team needs a headquarters — a place where it stores everything needed to keep 30 riders on the road. At the service course there’s everything you can imagine you’d need, from spare team-bus toilets to bed mattresses and bottles of water to physical therapy supplies. There are shelves full of jam, detergent, and chamois cream. Toothpaste, beer, and bleach. It’s a bit like a bike shop mixed up with a supermarket, without any registers. Take a look.
How to Wrap New Handlebar Tape
Wrapping fresh, new tape around your handlebars can make your bike look and feel like new. Here’s how to do it.
Pegoretti
On the wall above the entrance to the paintshop in the premises – soon to be vacated – of the Pegoretti works, hangs a large sheet of paper, scrawled with signatures round the central motif: a caricature of the man Dario, sitting on an upturned tin tub, toasting a crab, skewered to the end of a pair of dislocated forks, over a small fire.
How to Get Your Road Bike Ready for Spring
Get your bike ready for smooth riding this spring with this helpful bike maintenance checklist from Lennard Zinn.
Inside the Workshop: A Place for Everything and Everything in its Place
No two bicycle workshops are quite the same. Some are pristine, super-organized spaces run with a firm hand: everything has a place and everything is in its place. Others look like utter carnage, yet the resident mechanic seems to know where everything lives.
Cheap Tools Do Cheap Jobs
You cannot build a bike from scratch or service it properly without high-quality tools. This excerpt from Bike Mechanic celebrates the tools of the trade and their care.
Why Bike Mechanics Always Sit on the Back Right
The rules of the road are left at the start line, and the police wave you on to speeds unheard of in built-up areas. It’s pretty remarkable that there aren’t more accidents. Sometimes it’s a miracle that everyone gets home in one piece — near misses are inevitable.
Wheel Change: A High-Pressure Situation
The wheel change is a pressure situation; practice and a calm approach is essential. It’s the one time that a mechanic can really help his riders during a race. Good changes take a few seconds.
Every Day Ends with Bike Washing
There is one thing that has always been and remains a part of the daily toil — bike washing.
The Worst Days for a Bike Mechanic
A mistake by the pro team bike mechanic can cost the team the race
The First Bike Mechanics
There was a time when adjusting a bike needed a lot of tools — even setting up a pair of brakes required hours of patience.
Lennard Zinn’s Mid-Season Bike Maintenance Checklist
Keep your bike in smooth riding shape with this mid-season checklist of top priority bike maintenance tasks from Lennard Zinn.
Praise for The Elite Bicycle
“The Elite Bicycle is one of the finer coffee table books we’ve seen in years. The book profiles some of the world’s greatest (and disappearing) bike artisans with shart portraits, incisive photojournalism, and keen essays.” — Outside magazine “This beautiful book is all about the bike — in exquisite, intimate, celebratory detail. This beautiful book […]
Vive la Difference with TIME
It’s TIME (Time Sport International), maker of carbon tubing frames, pedals, handlebars, bar stems, and bottle cages.
The Spirit of Columbus
Columbus, the Italian manufacturer of cycling tubing
The Good Will of Chris King
And who’s making these tough, light, finely manufactured hubs in colors for every taste? It’s Chris King.
Red Kite Prayer Offers This Book Review of The Elite Bicycle
“Ultimately, what you come away with is something different; it’s the sense that you’ve spent an afternoon at the builder or company’s work space, that you’ve seen the work being done and then been left to wander on your own. You could unleash a dozen cycling photographers on the same set of subjects and very […]