Varsity Bike & TransitPosts tagged ‘bike mechanic’ | Varsity Bike & Transit http://varsitybike.com Pedal Less Oil Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:06:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Kenyan Traveling Bike Mechanic with Homemade Tools http://varsitybike.com/2009/12/17/kenyan-traveling-bike-mechanic-with-homemade-tools/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kenyan-traveling-bike-mechanic-with-homemade-tools http://varsitybike.com/2009/12/17/kenyan-traveling-bike-mechanic-with-homemade-tools/#comments Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:00:38 +0000 Varsity Bike http://www.varsitybike.com/?p=747

If there’s ever a Bike Mechanic Hall of Fame, this guy should be on the first round of inductions. Mohammed Makokha makes his own tools and travels around truing wheels and repairing bikes. The video includes some tedious explanation on how to true wheels, but the guy’s setup is pretty sick (plus he only charges about $.05 to true your wheels).

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