Give your BICYCLE the LOVE it NEEDS! This tuneup method is easy preventative bicycle maintenance.
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- Опубліковано 10 чер 2024
- Customer brought in her road bike for a tuneup. At first, I thought she'd need a bunch of parts - chain, cassette, pads, etc., but upon closer inspection, she's about half way there, so this quick tuneup service should push back the need for replacements another few months! A true win-win!
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I understand that people lead busy lives. However, I find the cleaning and light maintenance of my bicycles to be a very zen like . A calming and zoning out of the mind while listening to something enjoyable. Maybe its just me. Cheers.
Agreed to all that, however, I wanted to add a bit. It's also quite relaxing for me to watch videos of other people doing maintenance or upgrades on a bike (no matter the type of bike).
You are thorough!!!!!. I've never cleaned or maintained my bike like this, however I see that it's necessary. Outstanding video
Do you have a bike stand
I get a lot of compliments for my bright yellow to orange fade Trek ProCaliber, especially after a wash and wax. People look at me funny when I tell them I’ve had it since 2019. I just take care of it, ‘s’all!
BikeFarmer may hate me for this though: I upgraded the wheels, seat post, and seat to carbon fiber and tubeless 🫢
I agree. I love looking after my bike. Bought it 22 years ago second-hand and still almost like new. 22 more to go at least ;)
Just found your channel and noticed the Felt bike and had to check it out. I have a Felt F85 road bike that I bought in 2007 and still ride. I maintain it as best I can and replaced the 23 x700 tires with 25's, and also replaced the stock stem with a shorter one with more of an upright angle. I'm 68 yrs old now and love to ride this bike as much as I can! Thanks for having such a good channel!
The Bob Ross of bicycle maintenance. Very relaxing to listen to and watch
"Happy little cogs."
I have a 1991 Bianci Volpe waiting for some attention like this. Rode this thing all over New Hampshire and Vermont with my Dad in the middle and high school. Thanks for the inspiration.
Right on
I want an offseason full tuneup. I also want to watch it later on this channel. (Which is becoming one of my favorite channels).
You’re becoming one of my favorite subs!
The color of this bike, reminds me of a 10-speed bike I bought as a teenager in 1979 maybe? About $100 - which was expensive at the time, for a kid. It got stolen within weeks! Not sure if that means it had a 2 in front, and 5 in back? I did a search, and haven't found an ad w/ a new one - they apparently stopped making them years ago. - I try to always put away or lock up my bikes now - but I did forget to do that a couple years ago, and had another bicycle stolen. - Which turned out to be a short joyride and abandonment - I discovered too late.
This may sound strange, but I’ve had good luck using food grade mineral oil to loosen up crud on components, frame. Doesn’t seem to damage plastic, paint, or rubber; Doesn’t stink like furniture polish; isn’t toxic; pretty cheap; small amounts can clean quite a bit.
It's always interesting to hear "for the season" I live in south Texas summer is the season we lay off bike riding and can't wait till fall and winter. But we never put our bikes up. Just run them in the ground
After watching this I'm starting to feel really good about my late 80s Club Fuji.
Hell yeah!
I ride a 2004 Trek 5200 with an 11 spd 105 R7000 groupset from 2021. You would hate indexing my bike 😂 But it rides so good!
Bob Ross of bike repair
My Tri-Flo is ordered, and today, Amazon delivered my Dawn Powerwash system, 1-step, and furniture cleaner, going in 1 box on the ready, w/ paper towels, and a couple old washcloths. Gotta look for more small rags - or a big one to cut into many - (in case Dolly Parton stops by.) But this may not be the best BikeFarmer video to watch for cable lubing. I forgot that procedure exactly, so I'll have to re-watch a different video. I also have to equip my Cleaning Station w/ a used toothbrush, for scrubbing. As it's Winter, I'm trying to sort out my best bike, doing a repair here or there too. I don't have a bike stand, so I ordered a $20 bike rack, that I'll mount on my workbench edge, to make my own, using quick release nylon straps to mount bikes. Thanks for the help!
It’s refreshing to know I’m not the only one to bonk there knuckles on the spokes when cleaning there chain 31:13 !! Great video !
Great video! You should tag and label ASMR for better algo. It's one of the most searched terms
How is it there aren’t more subscribers? I just happened upon your channel, really liked the content, and clicked that subscribe button.
After checking out the list of videos, it looks like I’ll have some content to watch for a while😁
I try to be pragmatic but fashion hits hearts ❤️
I love watching your vids after work, relaxing and I go into auto chill mode. Thanks, Ride Safe everybody !
Injoyed the bike lesson in cleaning and maintenance adjustments.
New sub👍 Older rider getting back into the joy of bicycles. Travel most of year via RV so plenty of opportunities to ride. Want to care for the mechanics properly while underway.
Bladed spokes! Now I’ve heard of everything.
The older bikes are easier to work on. Disc brakes, hydralic brakes, carbon fiber, they can keep them!
don't blame you for the bottom bracket. i bought a wrench that supposedly fit my cannondale, but it was a good eighth of an inch off. couldn't even tell you what the inside looks like, so who knows what other bullshit would have awaited. loved the rest of the vid too, subbed & keep doing these
You did good work on the video.
Thank you for your opinion about the older bicycles. I agree with you.
I believe forty dollars per hour is in order. The problem is a repair on a bike or maintenance will exceed the cost of a new bicycle. That is unfortunate.
Manufactures can produce bicycles at lo cost, putting the bicycle repairpersons out of business.
Really loved the video and learned a couple of things
On some disk brakes,you can turn a dial to adjust the pads as they wear. I am not familiar with felt.they could be different
Really enjoying your channel sir! I'm a new subscriber - thank you so much. Trying to do a little basement biz myself.
Another great video
Thanks for being honest with uselittle confused about wat was broken and couldent get / bottom braket looked like everything worked
And great job for test riding it because some times the gears could use a little tune under load
Nice seeing someone maintenance a bike like I would do too. Good luck at finding new chainrings for these FSA OEM cranks next summer. I had none.
In the UK getting FSA chainrings is a pain.
Why not just switch to shimano cranks? Might as well pick better fitting crank length and gears
Like all you're videos 😊
You bring “real” to your channel ✌️
Subscribed. Great content.
A self described Luddite. I knew I liked this guy 😂
I love your videos by the way & subscribed. I have a 2004 Giant OCR2 that I’ve recently upgraded to a Tiagra 4700 gear set & also ditched the terrible xero lite 4 wheels for a set of Mavic Cosmic rim brake wheels. Shedded nearly 3.5 pounds off and it’s like an entirely new bike. I thought about that when I saw that this Felt had the same gear set. I found it to be superior over the stock 3 ring mashup of SRAM, Shimano & TruVativ parts originally on it. Oh and btw, thanks to you, I’ve started using dawn power wash 😆
I heard him caution us to keep the chemicals off the brake discs, and am wondering if I should pay the same caution on a bike w/ brake pads?
Be interested to know what a cleaning and tune-up like that would cost. Nice job
$100
Clips and straps on a bike with through axles.... wow
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The press fit bottom bracket comment surprised me a bit . I Would fix this in house with the facing and grub tapping set which is for threaded and threadless bottom brackets . No need to send it to a Felt dealer and create down time . I have this equipment .
It was a warranty bottom bracket she had replaced last year
It was a warranty bottom bracket she had replaced last year
Enjoying the videos. Where is your torque wrench?? Haha 😂😂 I don’t like the modern headsets either.
When cutting that housing I was like wtf srsly, hope it's not getting too short and then the cable being frayed. You got lucky there. I was fixing an old mtb a month ago, and the rear brake just kept feeling shitty. Than I noticed the cable was completely frayed and rusted because it was inside a black plastic tube to make things look pretty...not touching the rest haha
Serious question. Would it not be quicker or better to just fully wash the bicycle prior to service? As opposed to the indoor frame cleaning Time, money and end result? Thanks
Is that an old school cassio watch your rocking?
What’s the name of the spray you use to clean the matte bike frame finish? Where can you buy it? Thanks
Man ... I don't know where it is the subscription button ... Help .😢
Concerned about not rinsing Dawn Powerwash off after cleaning. It’s a concentrated detergent, would leave bike surfaces sticky, attractive to dirt! Do like your bike philosophy and have learned a lot watching your shows.
I was actually curious about the same thing. And if there’s any concern getting it on any areas that need lubrication. Isn’t Dawn an effective degreaser?
Do you ever perform periodic maintenance on an ebike? Or would you know a link to a DIY site? Maybe this is over my head.... hydraulic disc brakes, Gates belt drive with Enviolo hub. Thank You. Your videos help me with our fleet of "normal" bikes. CLA 😊
Please don’t bring me that bike 😉
@@bkefrmr 🤣 Got it. It's in Washington State so you're safe
The right bottom bracket is only about 3 days away from qbp. I would hate to send a customer away with a loose, creaky bb after a tune up and I'd hate it even more to send them to another shop for that service. That's just my opinion though and it sounds like your customer was satisfied.
I get the dislike (I’m one of those people too) for pressfit bottom bracket, but you should read up on the benefits. It’s easy to dislike something when it’s not understood.
Interesting bike, internally routed cables but no quick release wheels and Wal Mart like pedals.
Screw that break dust into the frame, yea.. do it... Mhhhh, thats nice..
I know you hate new bikes, but any chance have you had any good experience adjusting a new Shimano 105 front derailleur? I think I've gotten mine back to good as it is trimming hi and lo. But what a finicky process.
I think the 11 speed mechanical Shimano groupsets are some of the best ever built. They're amazing. A little finicky to setup, but once there, super solid and easy to dial in.
Great job...i don't like modern bikes either..thats why i have 30 steel bikes
Hi I am from India, can you help me restore and upgrade my grandfather's bicycle (BSA SLR) from 1978
Are Felt bikes real high end or something?
The high end ones are! 🤷🏻♂️
@@bkefrmr yeah, I should have just looked them up. I found the one you worked on. Thanks Andy.
rather than wash my bike i prefer to sit back with a coffee and watch you wash yours and judge a bit
THAT'S WHAT'S UP!
Love your videos but can’t get my head around you cleaning a frame with a dirty rag. No way you’re not scratching the finish.
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Your titles are solid. Try adding more detailed info on models, year, part numbers, etc.. Every description should include a list of the make/model/year of every bike along with the same for major parts and systems. Speaking as an SEO guy, and a non mechanic that just want's to fix my own bike, we want your take on our specific bikes/parts/brands and will usually google anything from the make/model/year, to specific part numbers to find how-to videos. @@bkefrmr
ugh, I just about cried when I saw the way that bike was cleaned. Instanly lost credibility.