Information and helpful tips that I've picked up while doing this.

Bet that title has been used a million times.

Here's how I have found them useful...



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1 & 2. Hold my phone belt clip to the handlebars and the phone to the clip.
3. Mount a mini flashlight to the handlebars to be used as a headlight.
4. To hold my spare tube kit together.

In case it's not obvious, you cut the tube cross ways to make rubber bands.

I made this for pressing the bearing cups into the bottom bracket. I actually find it easier most times just to use a rubber mallet or hammer and wood.

Home made tool for removing Schwinn kick stands.

Remove stubborn grips by using an air compressor with a nozzle on the end. Put the nozzle in the hole of the grip on one end while plugging the hole on the other grip with your thumb. Now blow while twisting the grip your thumb is over.



Other methods (if you don't have a air compressor or a hole in the end of the grip)...

Insert something small such as an ice pick between the grip and handle bar. Spray under the grip with WD-40 using the little straw the can comes with. Work the ice pick around the handle bar to loosen and spread the WD-40.

Also slide adjustable wrench or a wrench of the right size over the handlebars and up against the grip. Tap with a hammer.

Click or Indexed shifting: Any new bike with gears and the old shifters used on internal geared hubs were "click" shifters or indexed. Meaning there are definite, marked stopping points on the shifter where it "clicks" into gear.

Friction: Friction shifters have no definite stopping points or positions. You just keep moving the shift lever until you feel and hear the bike shift to a different gear. Friction shifters were generally used on old "10 speed" style bikes with a dérailleur.