Guides from the workshop
What we end up explaining at the counter, written down. No filler, no affiliate links — just what actually matters for riding and maintaining a bike in South Florida.
The guides
How often your bike needs service in South Florida
Every schedule online was written for a place with a winter. Here there's no off-season and the air works against the bike year-round. A realistic interval by how you actually ride, plus what's worth doing yourself.
6 min readRead the guide →What rain and salt air do to your bike
A wet ride isn't a problem — an ignored one is. What's happening to the chain, cables and bearings, the ten minutes that prevent most of it, and three well-meant habits that make it worse.
5 min readRead the guide →How to tell if your chain is worn out
The cheapest part of the drivetrain decides how long the expensive parts last. How to measure with a checker or a plain ruler, the thresholds that matter, and why waiting costs the cassette too.
4 min readRead the guide →Why we write these
Most of what we get asked at the counter is the same handful of questions, and most of the answers online are either written for a different climate or written to sell something. These are the answers we'd give you in the shop.
If yours isn't covered, ask us on WhatsApp — the questions we get most are what gets written next.
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