Abby Hippley, mechanic, bike builder ... Rear Derailleur To fix a skip in the rear derailleur, shift your chain into the smallest ring on your rear cassette (the hardest gear) and the middle ...

Derailleurs are the transmission of your bike. When you shift, they guide the chain to the correct gears. Whether you’re fixing a particular problem with your chain or simply giving the system a ...

There is a multitude of reasons as to why gears might start shifting poorly, so unless you are a dedicated single speed rider, being able to adjust your road bike groupset so it is once again ...

It’s important to keep your bike in good shape to improve ... to car brakes but they're more complicated to fix than, say, a V-brake. As with gears a lot of problems are caused by cables ...

So how much mechanical skill should you have in order to ride a bike regularly? Not much, but not nothing, either. In evaluating whether it’s reasonable to learn a repair skill, it’s useful to ...

However, even after you mastered riding an ordinary bike, you may have been surprised to learn of the existence of gear-shifting, hill-conquering mountain bikes. Everyone knew at least one kid who ...

Cycle Recycle has been teaching kids how to fix their bikes for more than a decade but a new initiative is working to get more children involved. The nonprofit bike repair shop has been in Benton ...