Removing an inner tube for repair or replacement can sometimes be a real fight but with a bit of patience and a few pro tips, you can make things a lot easier for yourself. Our tech team are switching ...

This article has been freshly updated as part of our 'New to Riding' week, running from March 10 to March 17, with a special focus on tips, tricks and inspiration for new riders. At some point as a ...

Don’t throw away your old bike inner tubes: Use them to make something instead. Old, punctured rubber tubes are the secret MacGyver tool lurking in almost everybody’s tool box, and here at the Lab we ...

January is an oddly frenetic month in the world of professional cycling. Pro riders the world over (well, those that aren’t at the Tour Down Under) typically descend on the sunny roads of Spain for ...

“Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door,” opined the nineteenth-century American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson. Almost. His actual quote is less pithy—“If a man can make ...

If you’re a cyclist that lives in an area with poorly-maintained infrastructure, you’ll likely have plenty of punctured inner tubes begging for reuse. Consider crafting them into a rugged, ...

If you’re a mountain biker, then you are no doubt aware of the increasing popularity of tubeless tires. For the uninitiated, these are tires that have no inner tubes, but that are instead partially ...

This inner-tube vending machine is outside a bike store in Cologne, Germany, and a new tube will cost €6 ($8.50) — a pretty normal price in Europe. It’s certainly handy — If you need a new tube, you ...