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rowan_hunt8•1d ago

Shoutout to the old timer in Tucson who said my wheel builds were 'too pretty to ride'

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logan_white59•1d ago

Unpopular opinion: bled my buddy's brakes by the book and it still felt spongy, so I stopped doing it that way

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lunah86•4d ago

Back in 2011 a shop in Portland taught me to true wheels by feel, not by gauge

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the_jennifer•4d ago

Big box shop tune-ups are ruining entry level riders, I said it

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pat_perry•8d ago

Swapped my heat gun for a cheap hair dryer on tricky decal removal

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ivan_schmidt•11d ago

Spent 3 hours hunting a creak on my shop bike, turned out to be the saddle rails

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hall.quinn•13d ago

Tubeless sealant that dried up in 2 weeks, so I went back to tubes for a while

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the_jake•14d ago

Customer brought in a bike with peanut butter in the shifters

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markl75•15d ago

Chain snapped on a group ride, how do you carry a spare link?

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evanb87•23d ago

TIL the hard way that torque wrenches need recalibration

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leo107•25d ago

Spent $80 on a torque wrench set, now I question all my old builds

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mia_anderson•26d ago

My old truing stand finally gave out, RIP Park TS-2

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angelacooper•27d ago

That $350 ultrasonic cleaner barely touched my chains

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grant130•28d ago

Torque wrench calibration drift caught after 200+ carbon builds

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foster.dylan•28d ago

Torque wrench calibration drift caught after 200+ carbon builds

Bicycle Mechanics

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