Inner tubes are crucial for my bike’s suspension and maintaining the right tire pressure for my rides. However, there’s ongoing controversy about the wall thickness of inner tubes – is thicker really better, or is it the other way around? I’ve...
Choosing a bike inner tube is an easy process, or at least, that’s what I thought until I went to a bike pro shop and saw that I was mistaken. In fact, I was floored. There was a whole rack of tubes with more than just size differences – there were...
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The weather was finally starting to warm up, so I went out to my garage to retrieve my mountain bike. Upon retrieving my bike from the rafters, I noticed that I had forgotten to winterize the chain correctly, and the chain was pretty seized up and rusty. DIY MTB Pro...
I’ve been professionally working on bikes and writing about my journey for over 5 years now. I’ve had my hands on countless bikes, from the most straightforward single-speed types to the complex multi-geared varieties. Together we get to step through the...
Presta valve tubes? When I got my first bike from a department store, it had the identical valves as any car’s tires. So, when I finally decided to upgrade to a higher-tier mountain bike, you can imagine my surprise the first time I looked at the tires –...
Unless you’ve spent your life trapped in a cave, you’ve seen a Schrader valve on a car or bike tire. You may have a wheelbarrow with an inflatable tire with a Schrader valve tube. The point is that Schrader valves are the most common valve type, but do you...
