Simple and Fast Bike Inner Tube Replacement
The Inevitable Puncture Event
The percentages indicate that one of these is coming your way eventually. Racking up a lot of time on the bike ensures that you'll have to ultimately handle a flat tire. Be ready for this situation well before it occurs faraway from home leading you to need to walk home pushing your bike (that sucks).
Prepare yourself the correct way by learning the way to replace your inner tube in the details that follow. Knowing the basics of how to fix bicycles will come in handy some day for you (I guarantee it).
Let's Give Your Fingers a Workout - How To Replace The Inner Tube
Once a flat happens, you obviously won't be able to do much with it without having one more spare one at hand. Undoubtedly, the majority of all flats come as a result of your inner tube losing air. If you merely switch the leaking inner tube with an all new one, your tire will be completely ride able yet again.
OK, you've got your inner tube available now what? Put the inner tube aside and unlatch and remove your wheel from the bicycle. Take into account the physics associated with trying to take the inner tube out of the tire if the wheel is still connected to the bike; it cannot be done.
Time for You to Get Rid of the Leak
Now that the wheel is off the bicycle you need to slowly and gradually work the tire and inner tube over rim. I would recommend making a practice run from home to see if you're able. If not, no big deal, you will simply need tire levers.
Tire levers can be bought in different sizes and shapes but they all will do the job of getting your tire clear of the rim. Now you can give your fingers a break and just make use of the tire levers to peel the tire and tube from the rim. Even if you are able to use your fingers to remove the tires most of the time, tire levers are still a great backup just in case.
Deflated Tube Off - Time For New Tube
You may want to get that new tube on as soon as possible so you can get on your way but keep away from this practice simply because it may backfire on you. You've got a flat inner tube for a reason and you need to make sure that the cause is no longer not stuck inside rubber tire.
Run your fingers inside the tire to ensure that there is nothing sharp that would poke a rip in your new inner tube. Assessment finished with no sharp objects found, time to position the new inner tube back into the tire.
A Couple of Quick Shots of Air
A tube without any air inside it really is challenging to work with so provide it with just enough air to ensure that it holds its form. You can view some high resolution photos of this procedure at http://howtorepairbicycles.com. You can now reverse what you did when you got the tire off the wheel; just insert your new inner tube inside the tire and lever it back on the rim. Your place to begin would be to first place the valve stem into the hole in the wheel rim before levering the tire back on. Seeing that the valve stem is inserted you can begin to re-insert the tire and inner tube back on your wheel rim.
Don't give the tube any more air until you ensure that it is still fully inside the tire now that it is back on the rim. All you need to do to accomplish this is to move the tire aside, using your fingers, and taking a look into the rim. If you can still see some of your inner tube, you need to go back and get it pushed back inside of the tire. You can not take your bike pump and blow up the tire to your normal riding pressures.
That's All There Is To It
Once the tire is pumped up and is holding the air well, then simply put your wheel back onto the bike frame. Why not go for a nice ride now and test out the new tube. If you enjoyed this information and want even more, why not go to one of the "goto" sites for most people; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_cycling.
The percentages indicate that one of these is coming your way eventually. Racking up a lot of time on the bike ensures that you'll have to ultimately handle a flat tire. Be ready for this situation well before it occurs faraway from home leading you to need to walk home pushing your bike (that sucks).
Prepare yourself the correct way by learning the way to replace your inner tube in the details that follow. Knowing the basics of how to fix bicycles will come in handy some day for you (I guarantee it).
Let's Give Your Fingers a Workout - How To Replace The Inner Tube
Once a flat happens, you obviously won't be able to do much with it without having one more spare one at hand. Undoubtedly, the majority of all flats come as a result of your inner tube losing air. If you merely switch the leaking inner tube with an all new one, your tire will be completely ride able yet again.
OK, you've got your inner tube available now what? Put the inner tube aside and unlatch and remove your wheel from the bicycle. Take into account the physics associated with trying to take the inner tube out of the tire if the wheel is still connected to the bike; it cannot be done.
Time for You to Get Rid of the Leak
Now that the wheel is off the bicycle you need to slowly and gradually work the tire and inner tube over rim. I would recommend making a practice run from home to see if you're able. If not, no big deal, you will simply need tire levers.
Tire levers can be bought in different sizes and shapes but they all will do the job of getting your tire clear of the rim. Now you can give your fingers a break and just make use of the tire levers to peel the tire and tube from the rim. Even if you are able to use your fingers to remove the tires most of the time, tire levers are still a great backup just in case.
Deflated Tube Off - Time For New Tube
You may want to get that new tube on as soon as possible so you can get on your way but keep away from this practice simply because it may backfire on you. You've got a flat inner tube for a reason and you need to make sure that the cause is no longer not stuck inside rubber tire.
Run your fingers inside the tire to ensure that there is nothing sharp that would poke a rip in your new inner tube. Assessment finished with no sharp objects found, time to position the new inner tube back into the tire.
A Couple of Quick Shots of Air
A tube without any air inside it really is challenging to work with so provide it with just enough air to ensure that it holds its form. You can view some high resolution photos of this procedure at http://howtorepairbicycles.com. You can now reverse what you did when you got the tire off the wheel; just insert your new inner tube inside the tire and lever it back on the rim. Your place to begin would be to first place the valve stem into the hole in the wheel rim before levering the tire back on. Seeing that the valve stem is inserted you can begin to re-insert the tire and inner tube back on your wheel rim.
Don't give the tube any more air until you ensure that it is still fully inside the tire now that it is back on the rim. All you need to do to accomplish this is to move the tire aside, using your fingers, and taking a look into the rim. If you can still see some of your inner tube, you need to go back and get it pushed back inside of the tire. You can not take your bike pump and blow up the tire to your normal riding pressures.
That's All There Is To It
Once the tire is pumped up and is holding the air well, then simply put your wheel back onto the bike frame. Why not go for a nice ride now and test out the new tube. If you enjoyed this information and want even more, why not go to one of the "goto" sites for most people; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_cycling.
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