by Mike Tierney This time of year – winter for us in the northern hemisphere – is a great time to check out our wheels in preparation for next season. If you're like me, your winter wheels are now on the bike or it could be that your bike is not used (atleast as much as normal) until spring arrives. No matter, as now is the ideal time to check your wheels; you have lots of … [Read more...] about ‘Slow Season’ A Great Time to Check Your Wheels
Tires
A Two-Pack of Tire-Mounting Tips
By Coach Rick Schultz I have two QTs for you today related to mounting new tires. Before mounting a brand new tire onto a rim, lay the tire out in the sun for an hour (on at least a moderately warm day). Once it's warmed up, it stretches just enough to allow easy install. Scrub your tires. New tires are slippery at best. Dangers include slide-outs when cornering at high … [Read more...] about A Two-Pack of Tire-Mounting Tips
How to Fix Bicycle Tire Cuts with Shoe Goo
Our last QT was from Coach Rick Schultz, author of Bike Fit 101: Your Toolset for a Great Bike Fit, about using superglue to fix small cuts in tires. We thought we’d share a couple of follow-ups to Rick’s tip, one from a reader who has had bad results using that technique, and another who’s made use of a product for shoes to accomplish the fix. The first is from John … [Read more...] about How to Fix Bicycle Tire Cuts with Shoe Goo
Tubeless Revisited
By Mike Tierney My column of two weeks ago titled "Tubeless, or Not Tubeless? That is the Question" generated more Comments than any of my previous columns, pretty well all of them from roadies who ride – and very much like – tubeless tires. I appreciate your reasons for embracing tubeless technology (I’ll get to those in a moment), but for most of us, tubeless remains a … [Read more...] about Tubeless Revisited
Tubeless, or Not Tubeless? That is the Question.
By Mike Tierney The sporting bicycle rider, when it comes to wheels and tires, is faced with this decision. And like many bike-related decisions, this one also seems to have been foisted on us by the bicycle industry. It doesn't take much of a skeptic to realize that the bike industry's needs don’t always align with the needs of cyclists. But like most dilemmas, if we arm … [Read more...] about Tubeless, or Not Tubeless? That is the Question.