- Whilst regularly maintaining your bike
does insure you're going to be able to ride
a lot of time pretty much care free,
the inevitable will happen from time to time.
Now you can be prepared and carry a multi-tool,
inner tube, pump, that sort of stuff,
but sometimes you're gonna get some stuff
go wrong with your bike and it'll catch you unaware.
So, a bit of improvisation is often needed.
So, here are some of our best hacks to help get you home.
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Now, first things first, you wanna do a pre-ride check
ideally every time you go for a ride
and you get home and you clean your bike,
you wanna inspect it, check all the bolts,
especially the important ones.
You wanna check the stuff like your axles, front and rear.
You wanna check the things like your brake callipers,
your brake rotors, all your controls,
and the things that directly connect you to the bike.
If you're not doing that before you ride a bike,
or at the very least when you get home from riding a bike,
you're not gonna miss all the things
that just rattle loose over time, so work your way
around a bike, start up front systematically check
all the bolts and work to the back of the bike.
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Something we've all done out on a trail at some point
is snapped a rear derailleur inner cable.
Obviously by doing this this renders your gears
out of action because there's not tension
to actually operate your rear derailleur.
So, there's two options with this, really.
The first one is to just rip the cable out,
don't need that anymore, because it's broken.
And use your limit screws and give yourself a gear.
However, there's only so much you can do
with those limit screws.
You might get third or fourth gear if you're lucky,
which is good and it will get you home,
but the thing that we really like to do
is take the cable out completely
and using the rear stop on the mech,
I'll show you a cool little trick to give you
the gear that you want.
So, I've removed the cable from the bike
obviously in this case it isn't actually a snapped cable.
We're just gonna show you what to do
if your cable was snapped.
You're out on the trail, so flip your bike upside down.
Just be careful you don't damage your controls
or anything when you're doing so.
Try and put it somewhere nice and soft.
It gives you a bit better access to the rear derailleur
that you're gonna be working on.
So, the natural resting position for a derailleur
when it's got no cable tension in it,
is on the smallest sprocket,
it's actually your hightest gear.
So, of course you can ride home like this,
but, typically it's going to happen
when you've got a climb or something to get up,
so this is a nice little way to give yourself
the gear you think you're gonna need to get up.
Okay, so the idea here instead of the nipple
being in the shifter, the nipple is now gonna sit
in the cable slot here.
You're gonna pull the cable tight against that.
Manipulate the derailleur into the gear
that you actually want it to stay in,
and clamp down that cable and it should stay in place.
This bit is a little bit tricky to do on your own,
so if you've got your riding buddy with you
this is where he can help you, or she can help you,
So, what you wanna do is just pedal the gears around a bit
until you find the gear that you want,
and you have to manually move the rear mech to do that.
Obviously mechs these days have got clutches in them
so you've gotta overcome that force.
So, let's just get this going.
And I'm going to pick quite a low gear,
'cause I've got a bit of a hill to ride on the way home.
So, that's roughly the gear I want.
I'm gonna hold this in place.
I've got my allen key here, and I've just gotta pull
the cable through the pinch bolt here.
And hopefully hold this tight.
You can look down the line of the rear mech itself
to check it's in line, make sure it's not
gonna skip around too bad, and then crank up that pinch bolt
and hopefully your bike will stay in gear.
Now, if you've got a set of cable cutters, it's nice
to cut the end of the cable off.
I haven't, so I'm forced to coil it up.
Do this as neatly as you can, cause it's gonna
catch on stuff and it'll fray even further then.
So, just a nice tight circle and just loop back
through itself, just hold it in place.
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Some of the components on mountain bikes
a very easily damaged, just like the rear derailleur
and the rear disc rotor, cause they hang down
and they're target to being hit by rocks or if you crash.
So, bending a disc rotor is actually a fairly common thing
and in an ideal world, you'll have a pair of pliers
so you can bend it back on some sort of multi-tool.
I don't have one of those, so I'm gonna try
and manually push this one back,
and if I can't do that, I'll show you a little trick
to do with your multi-tool.
Now, without being in the workshop with the proper tools,
you're never gonna get this disc like completely straight
and it's still gonna rub on the calliper as it passes through
but at least you're gonna make a better job of this one.
(rattling)
That's pretty bad.
It slows down and makes the back end of the bike jutter.
So, on my particular multi-tool here,
the five and the crosshead screwdriver
are quite close together, and they're quite stiff.
So, I'm actually going to wedge the disc rotor
between them and use them to manipulate the disc
back as far as I can, just enough to get it through
so I can ride home.
I've managed to straighten it just enough
to pass through the calliper without sort of
slowing it down too much.
It's not the best job, but, given I've done this
just with a basic multi-tool that's pretty good
and it's gonna get me home.
Check this out.
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Despite all the innovations in bikes
one of the things that brings everyone to a halt
is the puncture.
Now it doesn't matter if you've got tubeless
or you're running an inner tube,
something like a side wall slash like this
is gonna bring you to a stop.
So, you can't just fix this by putting a tube in it
and pumping it up, because the tube's gonna
bulge out of the side and that will puncture very quickly.
So, what you need to do is find a method of patching this up
just enough so you can get home.
Now, Park make a thing called a tyre boot
which is effectively a giant puncture repair patch,
and that's the best thing you can get.
They cost a few quid, but they're worth keeping
in your riding pack.
I've had this one, as you can see by the state of it,
in my riding bag for a long time
and I've never had to use it.
So, I'm gonna demonstrate that.
However, if you don't have one of those
and you're really stuck on the trail,
What you need is something firm to put in there.
A bit of card could do it, but it's likely to get soggy
and not really do the job properly,
so a debit card, or a credit card, is your next best bet.
So, it's actually worth keeping your old cards,
Just for that purpose.
Actually, I'm not going to do this.
I'm gonna put the tyre boot straight in place here.
Before I reinflate the tyre I've just repaired there,
it's worth stating that this is a 26 inch inner tube.
And that's a 27 and a half inch tyre.
Just because it's a little bit smaller doesn't mean
it's not gonna fit, and with that in mind,
We actually recommend carrying with you
a 27 and a half inch inner tube with a Presta valve.
The reason for that is you still squash them
into a 26 inch tyre, and you can stretch them
into a 29 inch wheel.
The Presta valve the reason for that is it will fit
either Presta, or Schrader, which is the car valve,
rim drillings.
In this particular case, the tyre boot isn't sticking
very well to the inside of the tyre.
And you might also find the same thing
if you've had a tubeless set up,
so the sealing is stopping it doing that.
It's not too important as long as you
make sure the boot stays over the hole
whilst slipping your inner tube in.
When you start inflating with air, the inner tube
is actually gonna hold it in place
against the side wall of the tyre.
So, as you can see, I've used a tyre boot
on the inside of this tyre crack or slash here.
Fixed it, inflated it, it's holding.
But, as you can see, there's a bit of a bulge
in the side here, so that suggests
there's quite a bit of pressure.
I should a low a little bit of pressure out of this.
Keep an eye on it my whole ride home.
You've gotta bear in mind now that
that unfortunately is a new tyre.
You're not gonna get away with this one,
that's too big a slash.
But the point is, hacks to get you home,
and that's a great one.
Hopefully, some of these little hacks
have been really helpful for you
and at some point will get you back on the trail.
Bear in mind that these aren't going to fix everything,
so it's also worth taking some spares with you.
In addition to an inner tube, co2 cartridges,
all that sort of stuff, I like to carry
a little box like this.
In here I've got chaining bolts, I've got chain pins,
split links, and one thing in particular
I always carry on my bikes is a spare rear mech hanger.
If you bend one of these out on a trail
trying to straighten it is really hard without snapping it.
And that properly stuffs up your ride.
So, check the one that you need for your bike
and it's well worth getting.
If you wanna see how to fit one of those,
click down here.
And if you wanna find out three different ways
to join a chain out in the trail, click up here.
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