If you start hearing crunching when your rear wheel is spinning or if the rear wheel seizes up completely, you know it’s time to overhaul your freehub. Or, if you have a freewheel, you’ll need to completely replace the freewheel since it’s a functioning system that...
What do you do when you’re riding along and it sounds like someone is eating Doritos inside your rear wheel? Crunch, crunch! If you answered, ‘turn your music up louder’ and keep riding, you’ll probably be replacing your freehub soon. If – like I did recently – you...
The different axle choices for my mountain bike have always baffled me. There was a time when I was trying to install my bike’s rear wheel, but I was not sure of the thread size I needed to use. In the end, I decided to go to my local bike shop and have my rear...
“You know your front dropout is loose?” the mechanic asked me when I dropped my mountain bike off for a shifter adjustment. This was back in the days when I didn’t know a bike tube from those rubber floaties you ride down the river. I didn’t know, and I didn’t care....
Last season I took my bike to the Smoky Mountains to do some riding in the park. Not many people know this, but from May until September the GSMNP closes Cades Cove Loop twice a week in the morning. You can get more details here. I carry my MTB inside my minivan....
