This is you here, right?
That's me.
All right, what were we
looking at today?
I was, uh, wanting the shifter
cables replaced.
Okay.
Uh...
When was the last time
you just had a basic tune-up?
Yeah.
It's been a while.
Yeah.
It's a little bit dirty.
I think that maybe these are
getting gunked up, right?
That's what I was thinking,
yeah.
Yeah. I bought the bike here
and just haven't...
When did you get this?
Uh, '07, I think.
Oh, '07. Okay.
Good.
When you first got the bike,
did you change...
Now you might notice
my fellow magic team member
Matt Schick behind this
workbench in the background.
We didn't want the area
to look completely deserted,
so we placed Matt here
and had him wear headphones
so he didn't get involved
in our conversation.
You have it all cleaned out and
then start using the proper oil.
Yeah. As much as anything else,
it's probably gunked.
Yeah.
There's a valve right here.
A tiny, little valve.
Yeah. There was dirt.
Oh, there you go.
Look at that.
That's pretty dirty.
I never knew there was --
What? A valve?
Yeah.
You know what we'll do?
We should just empty out
the whole thing
and just give it a new --
you know, an oil change, really.
I didn't know it had
a reservoir.
Oh, yeah.
It starts up here.
It gets poured through here,
and it's going in here.
It's going
into your chains.
And every time you pedal,
you're actually pumping it
through the bike.
I'll show you
what you do,
and you'll never have to worry
about this again.
Put your bike up if you can,
or you can have someone hold it.
And just aim it
directly down.
Mm-hmm.
Once it's down, you'll actually
be able to feel it better.
It's a little easier to see
when it's down, too, right?
Get a pan, get a funnel,
and just --
There you go.
Oh, look at how dirty
that is.
That's why.
This should look really clear.
You know, this should be like
vegetable oil.
Changing the oil in a bike?
Yeah.
Yeah. It's the whole blood flow
of the bicycle.
Yeah, if you don't change that,
what's happening
is every time
you're pedaling,
you're just pushing that
dirty stuff through everything.
It's going into the gears.
It's going into the --
you know, the shifters.
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Okay.
Yeah.
Best thing to do is --
I'd say about every 500 miles,
you're gonna want to have that
cleaned out.
It's just easier to start
from scratch,
get it all cleaned out,
and go.
You know, and then a lot
of people come in
for a professional change,
but you can use --
Like, they make bike oil,
but you can use vegetable oil,
'cause a lot of these companies,
honestly, they sell bike oil,
but it's just vegetable oil
relabeled.
Do you go over a lot of hills
and stuff?
Uh...[ Chuckles ]
Not when I can avoid it.
Yeah.
Yeah, then you could probably
just get away with baby oil.
Yeah.
So there is a channel of that
in the frame?
Yeah. It's the circulatory
system of the bicycle.
I still haven't seen
the valve yet.
Oh, yeah. The valve --
It's really hard to see.
It's really flush, but you'll
feel it when it's upside down.
Yeah. It's good to just
kind of pump it in there.
I usually do this
for a few minutes
once I change
the oil out.
Yeah.
I'm gonna get rid of this
dirty oil and I'll be
right back.
But you can pump that in
if you want to get it smooth.
I'll be right back.
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Still don't see a valve.
