Brakes are one of – if not the – most important part of a bicycle. They keep you safe and allow you to control your speed, whether it's bombing down a mountain bike trail or riding in traffic. The ...

Fixie bikes are all about simplicity. Besides just having one fixed gear with no associated derailleurs, shifters or freehubs, many of them don't even have brakes – instead, riders just stop them by ...

Have you ever dropped or crashed your bike and broken a lever, leaving you stranded by the roadside? Even a bent lever can make things difficult and will break off if you try to straighten it. Or ...

While commuter bicycles can generally get by with a rear-wheel-only coaster brake, mountain and cyclocross bikes require both front and rear brakes - along with the hand levers used to activate them.

What do you do when the bike industry doesn’t make components to suit your specific needs and desires? If you’re design engineer and pneumatics specialist Paul Townsend, you make your own, hacking ...

Bicycles don't have a lot of ways to tell everyone on the road what you're doing, but Instructables user abikerider fixes part of that problem with a DIY brake lever light switch that informs drivers ...

If you’re an early adopter of road bike disc brakes, you may be new to the world of disc brake bleeding. It’s a common mountain biking task – and a fairly easy one with the right tools – that will ...

Italian brake maker Brembo launches its first brake system for professional mountain biking. The 11-time men's downhill champion Specialized Bicycles Gravity Team will showcase the new setup during ...

Specialized Canada has recalled Tektro TL-83 bicycle brake levers. Model # TL-720. They came on 2011 S-Works Shiv and 2012 S-Works Shiv TT bicycles, sold between June 2010 and April 2012. Call ...