Post Lockdown Essential Bike Checks | 5 Pre Ride Maintenance Tips

Before you grab your bike and head for your first ride outside in some time, we need to check a few things. Whether it is your race bike or an old bike that's been in your garage for a while, we need to make sure that it’s safe and in working order. Here is an essential check-list of things to...check!

Hang on there! Before you grab your bike and head for your first ride outside in some time, we need to check a few things. If like us, you have spent all of your time riding on the indoor trainer, or perhaps you’re grabbing your prized race bike out for the first time in months, OR maybe an old bike that’s been collecting dust in your garage for years…

Whatever the reason is, before we take the bike out, we need to make sure that it’s safe and in working order. So, here is an essential check-list of things to...check!

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What are on your checklist before heading out for a ride? Let us know!

[AaronGoodTimes]

Great checklist! The only thing I would add (unless I missed it) is to check the spokes for proper tension and truing.

[roatre]

Got into a crash a few weeks ago only a few days after finally getting to go outside...

[brittneyswanson]

After having my bike on the trainer all winter when I went outside I got a flat 3 miles out, had to do my version of the "walk of shame" home. oops.

[trbeyond]

Good time to replace batteries or recharge the power meter.

[DaanHoogland]

GTN: over time might find you get ... some cuts and wounds to the surface of the tire
Me: how much time on average
My bike: at the end of the street

[StuWebRT]

Ha ha let someone else use it. Ha ha ha