{"id":172344,"date":"2026-01-19T13:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T04:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/?post_type=review-global&p=172344"},"modified":"2026-01-19T13:04:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T04:04:46","slug":"how-to-replace-tires-and-tubes","status":"publish","type":"review-global","link":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/review-global\/how-to-replace-tires-and-tubes\/","title":{"rendered":"How to replace tires and tubes!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi, it’s Tommy from BLUE LUG Yoyogi-Park store!<\/p>\n

In this review, I’m gonna give you some tips for replacing tires and tubes!<\/p>\n

It’s not so hard and you don’t have to be worried about having a flat.<\/p>\n

I’m sure that you can enjoy cycling even more if you can do it on your own.<\/p>\n

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Alright, so let’s begin with some tools.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_3527\"<\/p>\n

15mm wrench, 2 or 3 tire levers and 6mm hex wrench.<\/p>\n

Many of track bike hub nuts can be loosened with 15mm wrench.<\/p>\n

6mm hex wrench is for some other hubs like Philwood and Paul.<\/p>\n

If you ride a bike with QR skewers, then you can remove wheels by your hands.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_3545\"\"IMG_3542\"<\/p>\n

Next thing is the size of tubes. It’s a bit complicated.<\/p>\n

One is called “700C” and used mainly for road bikes and track bikes.<\/p>\n

And another one is called “26”” and used mainly for MTBs and touring bikes.<\/p>\n

Size should be on your tires, so please check it before!<\/p>\n

The descriptions of 23C and 1.75″ means widths of the tires. Former is in mm, and later is in inch.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_3537\"<\/p>\n

Choose the correct tubes for your tires! \"IMG_3546\"Oh, yes. I forgot to write about the valve length!<\/p>\n

There’re some different lengths of the valves and you can’t pump up tires with too short valves.<\/p>\n

So, just be careful about it.<\/p>\n

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Hope this would be of some 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