The easiest way to keep these together is to wrap the bottom of each brake arm, and its bits, in electrical tape.

Bikes are made of components, like brakes; components are made of parts, like levers and bolts. This could be the best option if the rings are already showing signs of wear. Zip-tie all four pieces of the brakes together and put them in the bin. The ideal way to strip a bicycle is to work "From the outside in," starting by removing "superficial" and easily interchangeable parts like accessories and cables and working inward toward more crucial and bike-specific components like the headset and bottom bracket. These should be removed with the cotter-pin press, which looks like a heavy-duty, modified C-clamp (It lives in the red drawers beneath the main tool cabinet). Few people realise the importance of getting this draw the right way round. Have a hand under the fork to support it as you remove the top race. However, abseiling puts much less wear on the rings.

(Unfortunately, tires cannot be recycled.) These consist of a spindle (to which the cranks were connected) and two cups, with ball bearings in between them. There are two methods of connecting handlebars to stems: Because they use separate arms, a complete front-and-rear set of cantilever brakes will have four pieces (plus the yoke cables).

A mistake could be fatal.These articles are intended to supplement information given by qualified professionals This 'Clean a Sport Anchor' article is part of the book - Cleaning a sport anchor means removing all of your gear from it. Rest your weight on this quickdraw. Watch out for loose ball bearings here! Determining how fixable a bent wheel is can be hard. If you have already removed the cables, housing and wheels then removing the brakes is simple. For example, many many brakes use the same cable anchors, and those cable anchors can be readily found in the shop. Pull up a little slack and push a bight of the rope through the main anchor point as shown. As a glance around the Bike Kitchen will tell you, bicycle mechanics rely on many specialized tools to take bikes apart and put them back together. When removing cables and housing it is more important to preserve the components they connect than to keep the cables and housing intact. Clip another quickdraw into the other anchor bolt and clip it directly to your belay loop. We often have untrained volunteers strip bikes. At this point, you should be staring at a bare frame and fork. This depends on the thickness of your rope and the type of anchor.

Often the rim of the wheel is pretty bent or is missing a spoke or two. As with method 1, you will remain ‘on belay’ during the whole setup.In most cases that you clean a sport anchor, you will lower down - this is much quicker than abseiling.

Unscrew the "inside" nuts, i.e., those on the "back" of the brake bolt. Removing the cables and housing makes the rest of the stripping job simpler and cleaner. This means that, once the brake arm is off the frame, there will be no threading to hold that pivot bolt in its hole, or to hold the spring on the other side in place. The order below is the ideal one to follow and is based on working from the outside inward, that is, starting from the top-most and easiest-to-remove parts and stripping off layers. For all of these reasons, unless we are recycling a frame, Bottom brackets are another component where sizing is both non-standard and difficult to gauge without the component in hand. The components that we strip go into the digging stream so that people can use them to build up other bikes. If you have any doubts, ask. On all such bottom brackets, the drive-side cup is known as the "fixed" cup and the other is known as the "adjustable" cup.

As with derailers, the most important thing to observe while removing a brake is that the anchor bolts that hold the cables in place and any hardware that mounts the brake to the frame should be tightly fastened to the brake so that these parts are not lost while the brakes tumble around in the storage bin. Because they use separate arms, a complete front-and-rear set of V-brakes will have four pieces.

The dimensions of bike tubing vary a lot, and so there are many sizes of headset. Tape a piece of card stock of the right color for its size (there is a chart on the wall below the hanging wheels) and then hang it with wheels of the same size. Its fun and often-competitive atmosphere, combined with the immediate gratification of completing many difficult routes in a single outing, draws newcomers to the sport and is a natural progression for gym climbers who want to take their skills to the outdoors. Most donated bikes have cotterless cranks. Use zip ties and/or electrical tape to keep loose parts together. In this case, you must use a slightly different method. If the wheel is badly bent, corroded or otherwise broken, recycle it. Zip-tie together the clips and put them in the appropriate storage bin.