If your brakes are squeaking or feel soft, don't head to your local bike shop, you can fix this. Brakes can be one of the simplest bike repairs for home mechanics. That is, if you have caliper brakes ...

Are your brakes squeaking or losing power? You might be dealing with contaminated brake pads. In this quick and effective guide, I’ll show you how to clean or fix brake pads that have been affected by ...

Eric Holte (left) learns to fix his bike with volunteer Michael Benko at Bike Church, a learn-to-repair bike event at Neighborhood Bike Works in Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) Neighborhood Bike ...

Looking to dust off your bicycle and get it back on the road after ignoring it all winter? Even for those who prefer riding to wrenching, it's not that difficult, bike mechanics say. Assuming you ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. I cannot begin to tell you how excited I was to clear off a table, lay out a pair of cone wrenches, a little jar of mineral spirits, and a few ...