Mountain bike routine maintenance and upkeep

Whether it is a few hundred thousand dollars or on a bicycle, riding through daily period or the game back, often there will be a shift allowed, brake problems arise and so on, often these issues may not affect the immediate motorcycles use, but generally the riders are aware, a Bicycle Accessories have long life and the owner of the bike maintenance frequency of a great relationship.
Simple routine maintenance, do not need professional and technical personnel, do not need much professional tools. On their own will be able to carry out maintenance on the car once, but you can make your car when in battle, "exhilarating, eighty."
MTB Cleaning
When we determine to be the maintenance of a bicycle, the first to be carried out it is on the bike clean. After this step is an indispensable step to make maintenance more efficiently.
1. Frame
Clean with a cloth dampened with water frame can be poured into the upper part, so stuck in the mud beneath the frame encountered soft water is very volatile at this time as long as the cloth and then wipe the dirt can be easily removed. I personally would not use water cannons to wash sludge and other cycling on, because this cleaning, water easily enters the central axis or hub, the impact component life.
At this point need to pay attention to the frame is easy to plot mud areas, such as the five-axis position. After wash with water mud on the frame, then pour a little detergent on the cloth, hand rub after you can simply scrub the frame, there is dirt in the face of the frame on the location, as long as the light gently rub back and forth several times, the frame will be a clean up. Generally not recommended to use powerful detergent and other detergents, as many bicycles are made of aluminum material, alkaline detergent composition containing aluminum would react, Over time it will lead to the emergence of some portion of the aluminum bicycle weird color markings, so flexible detergent - detergent is definitely a better choice.
2. wheels, front and seat tube
In the wash wheel, you can choose to use the brush shoe brush dipped in sediment detergent on the brush casing. In the car wash lap, best replaced by sticky detergent cloth, carefully wipe the rim brake pads brake over the place. Simple scrub Spoke aspect can be. In the washing hub when the same do not get rid of detergent with water cannons and the like. Simply pour over the water after a wipe with a clean cloth on it. Wash seat tube and sit packet, be careful not to let the mud along the seam sit flow tube clip into the seat tube inside. Sitting under the package, often mud fly up in most places, with a rag to carefully erase the mud.
For tires with a slightly stiffer the brush to sand and dirt on the tires, simple maintenance.
3. Dip, front derailleur, rear derailleur
After washing the above ACCESSORIES Next is earmarked wash, dip which is more complex, there are more internal parts butter plays lubrication. When cleaning the dip is best to gently wipe with a rag and clean it. When washing the front derailleur, rear derailleur, the dial back and forth can be directly aligned with the gap where water rinse, which can put the card in front dial in the mud and sand washed away. May likewise with detergent to wash before and after dialing the above oil flush.
4. fork, pedal, brakes
Fork and foot washing is very simple, as long as the foot can wash the mud. Fork is best not to wash with water, scrubbing fork inner tube when put on a rag to wipe the water and then wrung fork inner tube. After the inner fork tube used for a period of time will be some impurity to stay on top, you can use a cotton swab to gently wipe best to cultivate the habit of keeping a clean fork, which is essential for the maintenance of the front fork. When washing the brakes (V brakes to date) can be rinsed with a hose directly inside the left brake sand, ready for the next maintenance.
For roulette, before and after transmission, the guide wheel so you can use a small brush to remove dust and dirt.
5. dental plate, flywheel and chain
Throughout the cleaning process, the three parts may be the dirtiest part of the. Because the lubricating oil left on the parts, dust most likely adhesion. We can be on the same pour detergent rag, dipped in water to clean teeth after you can drive, in scaling the disk, try using a rag to clean each tooth, after washing with water when a punch, you You will be pleasantly surprised to find that in the presence of detergent scrub rag, dental plate already bright as new.
The next is to wash the flywheel. Wash flywheel should be removed to clean the rear wheels. After the First relax the brakes, so the brake is not tucked wheels. Put the screws on both sides of the rear wheel quick release twist loose, this time to pat the rear wheel, the wheel can come out. The wheels on the ground, after carefully wipe with a rag on the flywheel, the wheels Replacing the rear derailleur to pay attention to the location of the car, opened the rear derailleur slowly can put the wheels into it. This process is very simple, once or twice after disassembly can understand.
Finally, the chain is to be cleaned, and after a long ride, easy to glue a lot of sand on the chain. Wash chain variety of methods, the author here describes two methods: the first is the use of kerosene to wash chains, to stick with kerosene cloth to wrap the chain back and forth dragging. Let himself leave drawbacks is the smell, stained with grease and oil stains. The second method is to use detergent. It should be noted that in the wash chain when it is best to use hot water about 45 degrees, the temperature easier to play its cleaning action. In addition to the need to use sticky detergent rag to wipe the chain back and forth, the best little thick hair brush and then slowly put each section of the chain brush, and soon black chain will be showing the original color.
mountain bike maintenance and debugging
If cleaning is to make your car better to play at a critical moment, and to extend the life of the car. So for vehicle maintenance and adjustment, master beneficiaries more or car.
Routine maintenance cycling usually requires only a few common tools: Allen wrench, Phillips screws, lubricants. As for oil, where a brief look, I usually do not recommend that people used to use black car oil. Even the 2 dollars a bottle of sewing machine oil is also more practical. If conditions permit, then you can consider using three to four dollars a bottle of senior oil, usually in large supermarkets can buy. Usually we use 8 dollars a bottle can be bought in many bike chain oil.
Finally, it should be noted that before performing maintenance, water cycling must wipe with a dry cloth on, in particular chain, flywheel, dental plate, if you can, preferably water cycling, etc. on all dry and then maintenance.
1. Line Pipe
The first step is to maintain line pipe, first change the market's shift to third gear, the rear derailleur shifting to the highest gear (that is the largest disc), then in the case of non-rotating wheel of his finger retreated after dialing dial the smallest gear shift line at this time to relax, you can put the jacket pipe removed from the frame holder out, front derailleur empathy. Unplug line pipe later, usable cloth dipped in clean lubricating oil wrapped inside. If rust inside can be repeated scrubbing.
For the brake line pipe, after the first with hexagonal nail nails relax tucked inside the brake demolition. Then use a small syringe, the lubricant is injected into the pipe line to go inside, to drag-ray tube.
If when you replace the transmission line, the transmission line after dialing into hard, as long as the hand to press down the rear derailleur can continue hind paw of the load line pipe.
Demolition shift line
You can add oil to the transmission line for simple maintenance
2. brakes (V brakes)
After a period of use, the brake pads are more or less have some wear and tear. If time permits is best to remove the brakes, check the brake spring is not in the sediment, to remove a bit of butter on the back as lubrication.
If the brake pads wear side, you need to adjust the rear brake mount. Before loading the brakes, brake mounted in the frame inserted into the brake position where first coated with a little butter. Loaded into when we must pay attention to the spring brake sticking out on that point is inserted in the second hole of the frame. Frame V brake Department has three holes, the first hole maximum braking force, and the third is the minimum. When clamping the brake adjustment, you can see the position of the brake pads on the rim, if partial, then the state of the brake clamping down relax with a hex screw brake pads, brake pads adjust to the proper position after tightening brake pads Allen nailed it.
3. The front derailleur, rear derailleur
Car wash finished, the joints around the dial, the best lubricant drops; rear derailleur two guide wheels at some grease into usable syringe.
There are two screws on top of the front derailleur, respectively, next to screw with the letter H and L. H (high) screw action is to adjust the chain on the largest disk location. Counterclockwise spin out, front derailleur arm will take away from the tube position. If too far, easily lead to changing the time on the third disc off the chain, too, then the chain will wear before dialing, then adjust the H screw. The role of L (low) screw is to control the position of the smallest piece of the chain, counterclockwise spin out, the front derailleur is more close to the seat tube arm, if too much will lead to spin out when the shift from chain to chain five-position rotary will you let too much into the chain and the front derailleur collide.
Like the front derailleur and rear derailleur has H and L screws. H screw screwed into it too tight, it will not cause the chain down to the smallest flywheel; on the contrary, the chain next to easy off the chain after the minimum teeth. After adjustment, to ensure a minimum of flywheel and rear derailleur guide pulley arm position is in the same parallel line. L screw tune is good, the chain can be very accurately into the largest flywheel, if twisted too tightly, the chain will not be up to the maximum disc, it is easy to swap chain is too loose and affect the flywheel Spokes running. After adjusting the transmission system in addition to the front and rear Derailleurs raised, you can also dial the front and rear dial coarse, go to fine-tune the dial tone on the finger.
4. Chain
Once the car chain dry, give the chain re-oiling, cleaning the chain the same way. Best not to direct the lubricating oil dripping on the chain rotation, because I would have droplets splashed on rims, affect the performance of the brakes.