In this episode of Bicycling’s Bike Shop, Deputy Editor Tara Seplavy and Senior Test Editor Dan Chabanov discuss which repairs you can do at home and which you should leave to the professionals at your local bike shop. Then we chat about bike lights and what you’ll need to know when purchasing lights for riding as the days get shorter. We finish up with a Member’s Question about sock length.
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00:00In this episode of Bison's Bike Shop, we're going to start off by talking about DIY repairs and
00:06knowing whether you should do it at home or bring it to a shop. If you're going to buy one specialty
00:10shop quality tool, why it should be a hanger alignment tool. Then we get into one of my
00:15favorite topics. We talk about lights and why shopping for a light based on its max lumen
00:21rating is really a bad idea. This will only hit peak lumens for, I don't know, a couple seconds,
00:2930 seconds max. Look for what is the lumen range in the medium setting and what is the
00:36runtime in the medium setting. And then we answer a member question from Don in Colorado about
00:43whether he should wear longer cycling socks. That's what's in this week's episode of Bison's
00:48Bike Shop. The only way to see the full video is to become a member.