If you need to know how to fix a flat bike tire, this post with a useful video will make it easy. The post features a video that shows you how to fix a flat bike tire, with very few tools. Video Showing a Simple Process to Fix a Flat Bike Tire What I like about this four-minute video is that it really simplifies the whole process of changing a bike tube. Really, almost anyone … [Read more...]
Inspirational Video: How to Fix a Bike Flat – with No Hands
Here is an almost unbelievable video. I am ashamed to admit that it took me a long time to learn to fix a bike flat. I still find it hard, even with two fully functional hands. This man, however, fixes a bike flat very quickly, despite the fact that he has no hands at all. Watch this video to get inspired! https://youtu.be/AV4H04Rmkrw This is Hector Picard, a motivational … [Read more...]
Who Else Wants to Never Have to Clean Their Bike? Video shows Super Hydrophobic Material
Here’s a brilliant invention out of Rochester University in Rochester, New York. With this new invention of hydrophobic material, we can possibly look forward to a future in which our bikes stay spotlessly clean as they repel rain and mud! Chunlei Guo has invented a super hydrophobic material (a metal that is completely water repellent). It’s not a chemical coating, like … [Read more...]
Bike Maintenance 101
So Maggie and I signed up for Bike Maintenance 101. For just $55 each, we were promised a full day of hands-on tuition for the seriously challenged. At the very least, I was confident I would know how to pump up a tire by the end of the day. When it comes to technology, my ambitions are nothing if not modest. That Saturday dawned bright and heat-wavish, and Maggie begged and … [Read more...]
