Bike chains

Bike chains slipping is a common issue that all bikers have to face from time to time. It happens when your chain skips between gears while you are riding, shifts twice instead of once, or refuses to shift when you change gears.  Chain slipping after putting on new bike chains isn’t something unusual. Luckily, you …

I’ve ridden bikes for several decades, and in that time I’d say 95% of the maintenance time I’ve ever spent on them has been on sorting out issues with the chains. The most common bike chain problems are jammed, broken, or slippery chain, skipping chain, stiff or misaligned chain, etc. In this guide, I’m going …