Jim’s Tech Talk By Jim Langley Today’s questions about CO2 tire inflators are from Bill Thomson and RBR’s own Lars Hundley who saw Bill’s query and thought of another great one. Let’s start with Bill, who wrote,
Jim’s Tech Talk By Jim Langley Thanks to the excellent comments to last week’s column on our look at Park Tool’s CC-4.2 Chain Checker tool, I thought it would be helpful to list and show the chain checkers that you helpful readers recommended. Then it occurred to me that it would be even more fun…
Jim’s Tech Talk By Jim Langley With modern 11-speed (and up) drivetrains, it’s important to keep track of chain wear because if you use a chain for too long it will begin to wear. It’s not that older chains didn’t wear too, such as 5-, 6-, 7-, 8-, 9- and 10-speed ones. It’s just that…
Jim’s Tech Talk By Jim Langley I wrote a few articles about hot waxing chains this year including one on Event Gear Simplyfast hot wax and another on the Silca Hot Waxing System, which includes a wax melting machine (with Simplyfast I used a crockpot.) Both these articles include my videos showing how to use…
Jim’s Tech Talk By Jim Langley You might already know bicycle couple Bill and Carol McGann from their extensive and authoritative bike racing website. It’s the source for all things pro road racing, current and historic, plus it goes in depth on a wide variety of other information of interest to cyclists, such as training…
