The document provides instructions for repairing a flat tire on a bicycle. It outlines the 11 steps to change a flat tire, which include shifting gears, releasing brakes, removing the wheel, using tire levers to remove the tire from the rim, inspecting the tire for the hole, patching or replacing the tube, reinflating the tire, and reinstalling the wheel. It emphasizes being prepared with the proper tools like a spare tube, patch kit, pump, and knowing how to find and repair the cause of the flat tire.

1. Harrisburg Bicycle Club Week 1: Flat Repair, Road Repairs MAINTENANCE CLINIC

2. What do I do?

3. Be Prepared.

4. What’s in the bag? Spare Tube Patch Kit (with fresh glue) Tire Levers Tools for YOUR bike Don’t forget to carry a pump or some other means of re-inflating your tire!

5. Tubes – What type do you have? Presta Shrader

6. It depends on the rim! Presta Shrader

7. Patch Kit – why glue?

8. Tire Lever or Tire Iron?

9. Other tools to carry

10. To Pump or Not to Pump?

11. How do I change the tire? Step 1: Shift the bike Front Gear Rear Gear

12. How do I change the tire? Step 2: Release the brakes Road Mountain/Hybrid

13. How do I change the tire? Step 3: Open the Quick Release

14. How do I change the tire? Step 4: Remove the Wheel Rear Wheel (shown with bike upside down)

15. How do I change the tire? Step 5a: Remove the tire from the rim With Tire Levers With Bare Hands

16. How do I change the tire? Step 5b: Remove the tire from the rim With Tire Levers With Bare Hands

17. How do I change the tire? Step 5c: Remove the tire from the rim

18. How do I change the tire? Step 6: Inspect the tire for the cause

19. How do I change the tire? Step 7: Find the hole What if you can’t find the hole? You brought a spare tube?

20. How do I change the tire? Step 8: Scuff and patch the Tube Apply glue over hole location Once glue DRIES, remove foil and apply patch

21. How do I change the tire? Step 9: Replace the tube & tire Take care not to pinch the tube between the tire and rim… … or between the tire iron and rim

22. How do I change the tire? Step 10: Re-inflate the tire Note: label aligned with valve

23. How do I change the tire? Step 11: Put tire back on bike

24. Why carry a spare tube? Why carry a patch kit? Ken Kifer: Zen and the Art of Fixing a Flat Tire http://www.kenkifer.com/bikepages/humor/flattire.htm You are riding on a picturesque country road on your bicycle with the wind in your etc., and you are about to reach a Zen-like state of rapture when you start noticing your rear wheel. It seems to be bumping on the ground. Oh no, not again! You stop your bike, remove the tire, and open the patch kit. Now, all you have to do is to find the hole. Unfortunately, the hole is not so large. You can't see a hole, and you can't feel air escaping. You start pumping more and more air into the tube, hoping that the hole will reveal itself, but to no avail. Then you put the tube and tire back on and pump it full; the tire quickly deflates. Hours later, after a soaking rain, you reach your home. You vow that you will never make that mistake again.

25. What do I do when things go wrong? Our List of “Frequently Found Problems”

26. Wheel on WRONG

27. Brakes Out of Whack

28. Brake QR Not Closed

29. Chain Off or On Wrong

30. Quick Release WRONG!

31. BEFORE YOU RIDE: Check Your Bike ABC Quick Check: Air (does my tire have air?) Brakes (did I reconnect the brakes?) Chain (is the chain on properly) Quick Release (is the QR installed correctly?) Helmet On? This is the best chance for your bike to crash

32. Time for YOU to try Instructors are standing by!