Ask Nick

• Ask Nick / Bikes and Tech

  Ask Nick: Wheels, tires and brake pads for big riders

  • By Nick Legan

  Also: Checking for cassette wear

• Ask Nick / Bikes and Tech

  Ask Nick: Stretching tubulars, lawyer tabs

  • By Nick Legan

  Also: Squeaky rotors

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  Ask Nick: Clinchers for Paris Roubaix sportif

  • By Nick Legan

  Also: Gearing for Mt. Washington

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  Ask Nick: Cassettes specific to juniors

  • By Nick Legan

  Also: Pro's off-season bikes and choosing a wheelset for your style of races

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  Ask Nick: Should you go for your vintage dream bike?

  • By Nick Legan

  Also: seating tubeless, CDI torque wrenches and wider road rims

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  Ask Nick: What’s in Nick’s toolbox?

  • By Nick Legan

  Also, is water OK for your bike and Gore cables

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  Ask Nick on carbon

  • By Nick Legan

  on carbon durability, carbon seatposts, KMC, mixing SRAM and Shimano

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  Ask Nick: Derailleur installation

  • By Nick Legan

  Careful rear derailleur installation, maintaining a bike for indoor riding, adjusting your cassette rather than your derailleur

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  Ask Nick: running an 11-32 on Ultegra Di2 is possible

  • By Nick Legan

  Plus: loud freewheels, how the pros keep their shoes fresh and clean and if pros train fixed in the off-season

• Ask Nick / Bikes and Tech

  Ask Nick: Shimano’s Di2 gearing compatibility, water

  • By Nick Legan

  The trick is in the b-tension screw