Hey everyone and welcome back to another Tuesday tip where in this video we're gonna be going over a BMX pre ride checklist
So to be totally honest I was fresh out of ideas for this week's Tuesday tip until I asked my friend, Montana
Ricky and immediately he called me with the idea to go over this checklist for you guys
He calls it his BMX quick fix basically what this is and the entire point behind
This is a pre ride
Checklist that goes over every necessary thing on your bike in under a minute
He claims so that you can find any issues or problems
And fix them before you ride and fix them before you're out
Riding street or at the skatepark and away from your tools and basically save you a whole bunch of time energy and frustration
by finding things before you go out riding rather than while you're out riding and
Potentially don't have access to the things necessary to fix these problems
so first
we're gonna go through this entire list and everything that you need to check and then we're gonna do it and see if we can
actually get this done in under one minute like Montana Ricky claims that we can so the first thing that we're going to do is
Grab a bike flip it upside down move to the back wheel and grab whatever method you use for tightening your back wheel
I recommend Park Tool mq-1 because this thing is
sick and what you're gonna want to do here is make sure that whether it's a male or female axle that it's both tight and
centered in the frame
Once you're done with that, you want to check your spoke tension and your tire pressure and from there
We're gonna move just a little bit more forward check part chain tension
Which can be part of centering the wheel and the frame and tightening it because obviously those things affect chain tension from there
we're gonna move a little bit more forward and we're gonna grab our
Allen wrenches and we're going to check one our crank bolts to our petals and three our
Sprocket bolts if we have them because these are things that kind of go overlooked especially
The sprocket bolt and these are places where if you lose any of these parts or anything goes super wrong here
You might be out of luck for the day. So you definitely want to check these things
and from there we can set the allenge aside and grab whatever tool we need to tighten our front wheel because the front wheel is
next we want to make sure that the front wheel is tight and centered in the fort as well as check the spoke tension and
tire pressure of the front wheel from there
we're done with the bike upside down so we can flip it back over and
actually sit on the seat first thing we want to check while we're sitting on it is
The headset make sure it's not loose
This is super easy to do while sitting on the bike then once the headsets checked when I grab her Allan's again check all
Six of our stem bolts and make sure those are tight
And while you're there you might as well take a look and make sure that your front end is aligned properly
and that your stem is
centered with your frame and your tire and that your bars are aligned the way that you want them to be forward and
Backwards and there we're gonna jump off the seat and we're gonna make sure that the seat post is tight with the seat post clamp
And that our seat pivotal or tripod bolts are tight
And that's it for the main part of the checklist
But there's two other things that I want to mention here real quick
The first of those is if you have brakes you might as well clean off your back rim while you're messing with
everything on the rear end of the bike and
secondly
If you have plastic pegs or just in general having pegs or hub guards
You want to make sure while you're messing with everything on here that you rotate your peg sleeves or?
Rotate your pegs or your hub guards
If you need to it's definitely something that you want to pay attention to and breaking a hub guard while you're out riding
Definitely might put a damper on your day. So now that we're done talking about this checklist and going over everything
Let's actually try this and see if we can do it in under a minute
So we're gonna get a timer on the screen right now and it's gonna start
Basically, let's start it as soon as I get the bikes upside down
I've got my notes here just so I know everything to check and
Here we go. Got Mankiw one got my AWS 11 and
Let's do this
Time starts now
Okay, first things first. We're checking back wheel. Make sure that it's tight its back wheels tight. They're
Tight they're good spokes
Spokes feel all good
tire pressure
Not too shabby
chain tension
Not bad flip. It cranks still spin grab the Allens. Check the crank bolt on one side
Good check this crank bolt
Good that actually needed tighten check the pedals mine uses six. So you don't need a pedal wrench. I went the wrong way Oh,
Keep in mind whenever you're doing this you're oh jeez. No, we're good. We're good. I thought I was out of frame
Keep in mind when you're doing this that your pedals tightening the same way and loosen the same way. We're moving back up here
Just to make this easier. Oh
Here we go checking the front wheel tight
I'm losing time. I'm losing time. Oh
geez
There it is
That actually needed tightened. So I'm glad that I checked that here we go. I got one broken Stoke
I've tube I need to change some spokes. I didn't know that this many were broken. Holy cow
This wheel is bad. You can tell I don't do my pre-ride checklist
Everything's good there though. Boom
Sit on the bike check the headset turn the bars we go forward and back. Well good
boom
Okay, this has definitely been more than a minute
But I also ran into issues and that's one thing that you can assume
Is going to make it take longer than a minute if you actually run into something that's kind of the whole point of this
Because if you run into issues while you're checking it before you're riding
You're gonna be really pumped because you fix those issues before you were actually out riding. All of this is good
Checking the seat
This is going to be either a four or five
depending upon
What type of seat post clamp you have tight tight golden check the brakes?
Brake pull is good
Wheel doesn't wiggle here
Doesn't wiggle there
cranks flip
Pegs and hub guards don't need rotate it and that is the checklist. So I probably didn't beat a minute on this one
I probably didn't even get close but uh
We tried so Ricky when you see this
You might be right but not for me
And with that that's going to the end of this one
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Thank Ricky for giving me this idea and letting me share it with you guys
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