Springfield Bicycle Doctor

All tyres lose air pressure, it’s normal. Now, if you’re tyre is flat , and it wasn’t yesterday, Then you have a puncture…and I will cover that in another blog. Narrow/high pressure tyres lose pressure the quickest. Those tyres can lose 10 psi overnight. Again…This is normal. It is best to top these up before […]

Chain noise, and poor shifting only when pedaling. This is probably a derailleur adjustment issue. This may be as simple as a stretched shift cable, a simple and quick adjustment in the shop. Something like this is done at no cost, on bikes that were bought at my shop. A more potentially dangerous cause might […]

In general, Cycling should be a pretty quiet endeavour. When you are out for a ride, the only sounds should be from the natural world around you. If you are riding along and it sounds like you are being chased by a flock of birds, and you’re NOT in a Hitchcock movie, then your chain […]

I just finished the modifications to this quad. I removed the hand cycle side of the bike, and made it a fixed position hand grip. I added a BBS02 electric mid drive with a large 17ah 48v Li Ion battery. Built a custom trailer hitch for it.  It turned out great! These are the before […]

A friend sent me this photo of my shop when it was a Paris Cleaners. It was only a cleaners for a year or so, then it was McClernan reality for about the next 40+ years. The shop had fallen on hard times, after that, and was in pretty poor condition. Cyd and I did […]