Where did you learn to fix your bike?

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  • FlyingMawanga
    FlyingMawanga Posts: 38
    D - Other:

    I learned from the wonderful people at bikeradar.com forums.

    Cheers guys.

    :D
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  • xtreem
    xtreem Posts: 2,965
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    By myself plus:
    - good manuals
    - bikeradar

    Btw, I still don't have hex kays. :oops:
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  • MacAndCheese
    MacAndCheese Posts: 1,944
    My Older brother was into MTBs and Dad had a fair set of tools as he used to do his own car servicing back in the day. I think between them they showed me simple things like fixing punctures and setting up V-brakes. I've only recently started doing my own more complicated jobs and I usally just use the manual on online tutorials such as Park Tools and Hope's website.
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  • jay12
    jay12 Posts: 6,306
    park tool website or ask on here
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  • n.battison
    n.battison Posts: 57
    Trial and error for many years.

    And then i discovered this.
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    A bicycle can't stand alone; it is two tired.
  • joed05
    joed05 Posts: 794
    when i started to strip my bike down completely to the last nut and bolt myself and put everything back together again. also building up my previous bikes and some of my mates. i mainly use guesswork and logic, if im stuck i either look on parktool or ask on one of the forums that im on :)
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  • blister pus
    blister pus Posts: 5,780
    Here, then park tools and online tutorials
  • joec1
    joec1 Posts: 494
    I havent...



    But am trying ot learn
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  • angrymeerkat
    angrymeerkat Posts: 134
    Trial, error; I was bought edition one of 'The Big Haynes Book of Bicycle Lies' when I was but a nipper. Was tinkering with things from a very early age.

    It's usually driven by the blind stupidity of taking things apart to just see how they work, or thinking that "it can't really be that hard". I still haven't learned that lesson...
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  • RichMTB
    RichMTB Posts: 599
    Trial an error as well,

    I used to be completely cack handed (much to the amusement of my father). I can remember it taking the best part of an hour for me to change a tyre at least 20 minutes of which was tryiong to figure out how to get the rear wheel back on!!

    But with practice you improve, although I still have the capacity to mess things up which is how this week I learned what a screw extractor is for
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  • jayson
    jayson Posts: 4,606
    I used to jump in and get my hands dirty and kind of figure it out as i went. Years ago when i was a teenager and MBUK was actually a good mag they used to do workshop features in there i sometimes referred to if it was something i hadnt done before but really the only way to learn is to get stuck in and see whats what.

    I was a bit apprehensive about building up a set of hydro disc brakes recently but it turns out its actually a piece of cake, the only thing i cant actually do is build wheels ive just never had the balls to attempt what looks like such a complicated job.
    Remedy

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  • Penylope
    Penylope Posts: 320
    Been Spannering things from an early age. Always helped me dad when i was little to fix mowers, tractors, chainsaws etc etc.
    Just picked things up from him.
    Take it apart when its broke, prod it a bit, put it back together, how hard can it be :D


    That and an ingrained stubbornness to not pay for things i should be able to do for myself (which has led me to fit our new bathroom and kitchen :lol: )
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  • Northwind
    Northwind Posts: 14,675
    best way is to break it first- that way, even if you don't know what you're doing you can always say "Ah, well, it's already broken, can't get any worse". Even though it can, and sometimes will :lol:
    Uncompromising extremist
  • Dowse40
    Dowse40 Posts: 102
    Dowse senior was a road racer in his yoof so I learned very quickly "if you want a bike you need to know how to fix it".
  • jrduquemin
    jrduquemin Posts: 791
    all self taught... :-) I take things apart and then put them back together again...
    2010 Lynskey R230
    2013 Yeti SB66
  • BoardinBob
    BoardinBob Posts: 697
    No training, just good with mechanical stuff.

    I can't kick a football to save my life. When I was young however and my mates were away playing football I was out every Sunday morning helping my dad work on cars. Handing him tools and generally observing. By the time I got a car of my own I could strip an engine down and rebuild it. Studied mechanical engineering at Uni and worked as a mechanic at my dads construction company in my spare time fixing diggers, bulldozers and trucks!

    Compared to all that, bikes are a doddle.
  • mikeage
    mikeage Posts: 150
    A combination of an ex-roadie Dad to teach me the basics, being too poor to get shops to repair stuff and a compulsion to take apart anything that comes apart!

    When I upgraded my first pair of wheels I stripped the old ones down and rebuilt them , just to see if I could (I was 14 and anything was more interesting than school work!), made mistakes, worked them out and re-did them!

    It's also a pscological thing for me now that I only trust my own work and like everything on my bike to be smooth, tight and rock solid!

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