Free Online Bike Repair and Bicycle Maintenance Manual

Bike Repair Online

Derailleurs

• rear

• front

• shifters and cable and housing

• bent dropouts

Drivetrain

• chains

• cogsets

• cranksets

• loose crank arms

• bottom brackets

• chain line

Brakes

Wheels

• quick releases

• hubs

• freehub bodies

• truing

• spoke replacement

• wheel building

• lacing

• tensioning

• rim replacement

Tires and Tubes

• repair flat tire

• avoid flats

Front End

• forks

• headsets

• stems

• bars, grips and tape

Pedals

Seats

Seatposts

Frames

• frame tubes identified

Maintenance Routine

• bicycle lubrication

• inspection

Bike Build from the Box

Bicycle Warranties

Bicycle Repair Online is a free online bike repair and bicycle maintenance manual. If you want to fix your bike, buy parts and install them yourself, or build a boxed bike, this will answer your questions.

To use this site click on the topics listed to the left, or type in keywords in the search field.

This site is courtesy of Discovery Cycle, the best bike store in Austin, Texas. The author is Fred McLeroy, Discovery's owner. Alex Lincoln, Sean Harris, and Charles Flatten gave a lot of input.

Most pages have photos. If you have a slow modem, you may want to disable graphics.

This manual is in draft stage with of work left before it is in final form.

If you have any comments, or if you want to submit an article for this site, please send them to fmcleroy@austin.rr.com.