Cycling maintenance tips, gear tracking guides, and updates from the WatchMy.bike team.
Hot-melt wax cuts drivetrain friction and multiplies chain life, but costs you a strip-down, a wax pot, and a re-wax every 300 km. I was sceptical, so I switched two bikes and am logging it. The numbers, the faff, and who should not bother.
No app measures chain wear. Software predicts from distance, gauges measure elongation, and the two disagree. What automatic chain monitoring can honestly do, and where a €12 tool is still required.
What skipped repairs really cost: three cascade failures with EU price ranges, and the annual maintenance math for a 4,000 km/year rider — prevent vs repair.
How to ride loose, dusty sand without fighting the drift — plus why a dry summer is harder on your bike than a wet winter, and the service intervals dust quietly shortens.
The bottom bracket is the #1 creak suspect. Whether to regrease, replace the cartridge, or replace the interface depends on your ride — here are the rules.
A cassette can outlast 2–4 chains — but only if you catch the chain at 0.5%. The wear math, the new-chain skip test, and when chainrings are done too.
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