by Jason Gardner If you imagine your bike’s cable housing to be like a set tunnels, then imagine an army of little people running back and forth delivering the messages from your shifters and brake levers to their appropriate derailleurs and brakes. Sometimes, those people get tired. Sometimes they get confused and think they only [...]
Like we said last week, whether you’re a noob to cyclocross or a seasoned pro, you will crash in a cyclocross race at some point or another. [Ed. note: ee “Is Joey OK?” for an illustration.] Last week, Jason Gardner walked us through before you remount, the few things you should take a second to [...]
Whether you’re a noob to cyclocross or a seasoned pro, you will crash in a cyclocross race at some point or another. Even here at Cyclocross Magazine, we’ve had our share of crashes; see “Is Joey OK?” for an illustration. But before you remount onto a seat that’s no longer in place, there are a [...]
Disc brakes have really struck a cord with readers, racers and mechanics as everyone starts planning out what new gear to invest in for the coming season. We got a lot of feedback on our last Mechanical Monday topic of disc brakes, so much so that Stu Thorne, the owner of CyclocrossWorld.com, called to chat [...]
by Molly Hurford With the huge response we got to our most recent Mechanical Monday topic of disc brakes, we had to reach out to the man who has helped to start the revolution. Stu Thorne, the owner of CyclocrossWorld.com, chatted with me for a bit about his thoughts on disc brakes. Last season, Thorne [...]
by Molly Hurford We didn’t see disc brakes too frequently this season, but every so often, you’d spot a set on elite wheels, including those of Tim Johnson with his Cannondale SuperX. And with companies like Felt coming out with new, relatively inexpensive disc-equipped cyclocross bikes for the upcoming season, we wanted to check in [...]
This week for Mechanical Monday, we asked some of our favorite mechanics to weigh in on what people should be doing to their cyclocross bikes during the off-season. The three wrenches who weighed in all seemed to agree that the big thing to start thinking about is how you plan on upgrading in the coming [...]
Mechanical Monday is back, and we’re testing out a new feature: Reader Questions. If you have a mechanical question, feel free to ask it in the comments, on Twitter, on Facebook, or in our Cowbell Forum. Today, our topic is how to get tape off of tubulars, and if it’s possible to remove tires and [...]
by John Gatch Just like good wine, your expensive cyclocross tubulars require a little care and proper storage. “Ridden hard and put away wet” should never be how you describe your equipment at season end. Here are a few tips to help you summer-ize your cyclocross tubulars.
Before you can go out and preview a course at any given race, you should be “previewing” your bike for the weekend, making sure everything is as it should be. Mechanic Jeremy Chinn tells us how. by Jeremy Chinn
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