your bike can last a long time with the
proper care hi I’m Rebecca Braden and
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
getting a few easy bike maintenance tips
from the folks at cycle tours Montreal
and training mobs okay so now we’re
going to show you how to adjust your
brakes to be comfortable you want to be
able to pull the brake lever back to
about here for the brakes to be fully
applied so on this bike I’m going to
pull it back as far as it’ll go and
you’ll see that it’s pretty close to the
handlebar so this is going to be a major
adjustment will need what probably
happened is a combination of brake pad
wear as well as the actual brake cable
the thing that runs inside this black
cable enclosure probably just become a
little stretched so what we need to do
is tighten up the cable you’re going to
need your multi tool these are the
popular v-brake style of brakes we just
need to loosen off this little allen
bolt here and basically pull a bit of
this cable through grab our multi tool
and pull out the appropriately sized
allen key this one’s a five millimeter
so I’m just going to pop that in there
loosen off the bolt a little bit it’s
loose enough there’s no need to take the
bolt all the way out you just want to
loosen it off so the cable can be freely
and basically we just want to pull the
cable through a couple of millimeters
and you can see that a little bit quick
just going to pull it in a bit hold it
there and just tighten up that bolt and
before you tighten it up fully you just
want to check to see that you haven’t
actually pulled too much cable through
because to tides just as bad as to loose
and to do that just do your cable test
and as you can see when it’s fully
applied you’ve pulled the brake lever in
about an inch and that’s just perfect so
we’ll go ahead and tighten this up for
you now and that’s nice and snug so now
that we’ve pulled in our cable we’ve
tightened up the ball we’ve checked that
it’s at the right the right tension
these are the breaks that we need to
make sure that they’re scented and by
that I mean you want to make sure that
the brake pads aren’t rubbing on the
wheel rim because that’s going to slow
you down and it’s also going to you know
create a bit of a weird noise
sometimes it might squeak so to adjust
these brakes you’re basically going to
use these two screws to adjust the
centering grab a Phillips head
screwdriver so you’re going to turn the
screw clockwise to bring the brake pad
further away from the wheel rim and
you’re going to turn it anti-clockwise
to let the brake pad go a little closer
to the rim you’re trying to get the same
amount of space between the brake pad
and the wheel rim on both sides of the
wheel so now we’ve adjusted our brakes
they’re nice and scented you can check
everything is all good by just giving
the wheel a little spin you shouldn’t
hear any noise which you can’t and one
final test you can do before you take it
out for a full ride is just jump on your
bike and take it for a nice easy spin
around the block okay so now we’re going
to show you how to oil your chain and
it’s important to oil your change so
that it runs nice and smoothly and
asking quietly and also so that it last
as long as it possibly can if you’ve got
a bike with gears shift the chain into
like a middle cog today we’re using some
dry spray lubricant and we’re actually
going to just start gently back pedaling
and while we gently spread lubricant on
to the chain you want to be coding me
the chain evenly and that you do in fact
lubricate the entire chain just run it
through it a few more times what we’re
doing now is we’re actually giving the
lubricant a chance to actually get into
each individual link on the chain then
we’re going to just take an old an old
rag any rag will do cup it underneath of
the chain and just rotate the cranks and
pull the chain through we’re just wiping
off any excess lubricant it was on the
chain a wet chain will attract more dust
and grime and dust and grime is not good
for a chain health it will make it we’re
down a lot more quickly so you want to
make sure that while you’ve lubricated
the chain well you might want to make
sure you get rid of any access so that
should be pretty well done now and as
you can see we’ve got a nice clean
change it’s well lubricated and that
should run nice and smoothly next time
you’re out riding
proper care hi I’m Rebecca Braden and
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
getting a few easy bike maintenance tips
from the folks at cycle tours Montreal
and training mobs okay so now we’re
going to show you how to adjust your
brakes to be comfortable you want to be
able to pull the brake lever back to
about here for the brakes to be fully
applied so on this bike I’m going to
pull it back as far as it’ll go and
you’ll see that it’s pretty close to the
handlebar so this is going to be a major
adjustment will need what probably
happened is a combination of brake pad
wear as well as the actual brake cable
the thing that runs inside this black
cable enclosure probably just become a
little stretched so what we need to do
is tighten up the cable you’re going to
need your multi tool these are the
popular v-brake style of brakes we just
need to loosen off this little allen
bolt here and basically pull a bit of
this cable through grab our multi tool
and pull out the appropriately sized
allen key this one’s a five millimeter
so I’m just going to pop that in there
loosen off the bolt a little bit it’s
loose enough there’s no need to take the
bolt all the way out you just want to
loosen it off so the cable can be freely
and basically we just want to pull the
cable through a couple of millimeters
and you can see that a little bit quick
just going to pull it in a bit hold it
there and just tighten up that bolt and
before you tighten it up fully you just
want to check to see that you haven’t
actually pulled too much cable through
because to tides just as bad as to loose
and to do that just do your cable test
and as you can see when it’s fully
applied you’ve pulled the brake lever in
about an inch and that’s just perfect so
we’ll go ahead and tighten this up for
you now and that’s nice and snug so now
that we’ve pulled in our cable we’ve
tightened up the ball we’ve checked that
it’s at the right the right tension
these are the breaks that we need to
make sure that they’re scented and by
that I mean you want to make sure that
the brake pads aren’t rubbing on the
wheel rim because that’s going to slow
you down and it’s also going to you know
create a bit of a weird noise
sometimes it might squeak so to adjust
these brakes you’re basically going to
use these two screws to adjust the
centering grab a Phillips head
screwdriver so you’re going to turn the
screw clockwise to bring the brake pad
further away from the wheel rim and
you’re going to turn it anti-clockwise
to let the brake pad go a little closer
to the rim you’re trying to get the same
amount of space between the brake pad
and the wheel rim on both sides of the
wheel so now we’ve adjusted our brakes
they’re nice and scented you can check
everything is all good by just giving
the wheel a little spin you shouldn’t
hear any noise which you can’t and one
final test you can do before you take it
out for a full ride is just jump on your
bike and take it for a nice easy spin
around the block okay so now we’re going
to show you how to oil your chain and
it’s important to oil your change so
that it runs nice and smoothly and
asking quietly and also so that it last
as long as it possibly can if you’ve got
a bike with gears shift the chain into
like a middle cog today we’re using some
dry spray lubricant and we’re actually
going to just start gently back pedaling
and while we gently spread lubricant on
to the chain you want to be coding me
the chain evenly and that you do in fact
lubricate the entire chain just run it
through it a few more times what we’re
doing now is we’re actually giving the
lubricant a chance to actually get into
each individual link on the chain then
we’re going to just take an old an old
rag any rag will do cup it underneath of
the chain and just rotate the cranks and
pull the chain through we’re just wiping
off any excess lubricant it was on the
chain a wet chain will attract more dust
and grime and dust and grime is not good
for a chain health it will make it we’re
down a lot more quickly so you want to
make sure that while you’ve lubricated
the chain well you might want to make
sure you get rid of any access so that
should be pretty well done now and as
you can see we’ve got a nice clean
change it’s well lubricated and that
should run nice and smoothly next time
you’re out riding
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